“Introducing a New Audio App for Our Journalism and Storytelling -New York Times Audio provides news, depth and serendipity.”: https://nyti.ms/41OCMzN This was not supposed to happen. New players were supposed to come along, disrupt the the staid Grey Lady and leave it in the dust. But just the opposite is happening. Vice and BuzzFeed news […]

“Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral”: https://amzn.to/41zXBPb This is not the book I thought it would be. And I don’t advise you read it. I don’t see why anybody would read it. I thought it would be an insight into virality, how something spreads in today’s marketplace. Instead, it’s […]

You got a lot right here. It’s just sad that the gimmicky sound-a-likes is what people’s first impression of AI is. A few examples of tech’s disruption in music: 1. Beatles/Abbey road and the 8-track, and then mellotron (first sampler IMO) 2. Herbie Hancock breaking the rules and using synths in jazz mid 70s with […]

It’s Napster redux. Universal telling DSPs not to host AI music… What could be better! Think about it, you’re an act that’s so popular, so desirable, that the audience wants even more of your music! Can we stop trying to hold back the future? It has never ever worked, why should it now? Furthermore, we’ve […]