A company mired in the past that is unable to develop new products within that constantly misfires in the future.  A major label or Google? This is a Google failure.  If it weren’t for search/AdWords, Google would be on suicide watch.  The vaunted Android? They bought it.  Maybe if they bought Google Music, it would […]

Duane’s dead. But he’s positively alive in this clip.  As well as long departed Berry and exiled Dickie. Shot before the breakthrough of the live album what’s utterly fascinating here is it’s the Fillmore East!  You’ve got memories in your brain, and that’s all they are, distant links to images past, and suddenly you’re confronted […]

"Apple overtakes Nokia as world’s largest vendor of mobile handsets by revenue" I’d say worst to first, but more accurately it’s nowhere to triumph.  Could this happen in the record industry? Not only can it, it will. There’s an ecosystem of major labels and radio and physical distribution based on ripping off acts.  Will this […]

Everything old is new again. So I’m in the bar at the Royal York in Toronto and I’m introduced to the Sennheiser rep. I do what any obnoxious denizen of the cultural landscape would do.  I ask her about Beats. I tell her I’m a dedicated Sennheiser fan, they’re my headphones of choice, I have […]