VINYL If one more print publication, on its way to extinction, killed by the Internet, does another story about the vinyl renaissance, I’m going to EXPLODE! Vinyl sounds better than CDs. I’m with you on this. Some people are buying albums for their artwork, others as fan totems, still others are actually listening to them. […]

You mean he’s finally going to release his archival material? We’ve been hearing about this since the seventies, how Neil Young is going to do this huge archival dump, ten albums… But it never happened. And continues not to happen. Even though stories continue to circulate. Now it appears to be for real. I don’t […]

Once upon a time, you had to go to the gig to hear the music. You had to go to Fred’s cave, or the agora, or the synagogue or the concert hall. Then came the ability to record and reproduce. Suddenly, you could take the music with you. Play it at will, assuming you had […]

Michael Fremer: A) Blu-ray is not a disaster. In fact, what’s happened is that Sony supplies a particular part that’s in such short supply now that player demand is up, there’s a serious bottleneck, but the stats are distorted. Blu-ray will succeed. People will not be downloading their movies in HD any time soon on […]