Are we going to wait for decades, until bandwidth and desire conspire to deliver higher quality files, or is the music industry going to lead the charge in the distribution of higher quality digital music? Notice I didn’t say analog music. The vinyl LP is just fine. You can catalog its faults, distortion and physical […]

iPhone Do not buy before they release the vaunted 3G model, which Steve Jobs will probably announce at next month’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, and should be available by July. Once you can surf the Web at high speed beyond wi-fi range, with a functional browser, demand will surge… In the U.S. anyway. BlackBerry remains the […]

One could argue that SoundScan ruined the record business.  Oldsters might say the phony charts of yore, manipulated by the labels, were better for the health of the industry, that they allowed a record to build and grow.  But it’s more interesting to look at it from the other direction, how the first week became […]

Bob, Let me first say that i have been reading your emails for years and, although you sometimes make me second guess my life choices, i respect your perspective and think, for the most part, you are spot on. For years i have been wondering not only what i would write you but when the […]