Archive for the 'Technology' Category


Pandora Premium

We go where our friends are. Spotify pushed the envelope, created the new paradigm, Apple broadcast that streaming music was safe and everybody else… Can forget about it. You’d think the press would say no-go. Say something critical about Pandora. But reporters’ powers of analysis are nonexistent, they just repeat the press release. And even […]

Fox Innovation Lab

I drove the Mars rover! Used to be you wanted to be on the lot. Back when movies drove the culture and Hollywood was still dreamland, back before the means of production were at our fingertips and Silicon Valley pushed the envelope and usurped L.A.’s power. Kind of sad if you think about it. All […]

Neil Young On Spotify

Neil Young – Spotify They all come back to the garden. Let this be a lesson to those holding out, the streaming deniers, this is now, this is happening, get on the gravy train or be left behind. It always happens. Do you remember when acts wouldn’t let their albums be released on CD? Hell, […]

Kenny Chesney Not On Spotify

Hasn’t he got enough money? Then again, maybe he’s not only exclusive to Apple, maybe you can hear his new album “Cosmic Hallelujah” via Amazon, but I doubt it and researching it is too hard, these acts don’t realize Apple and Amazon’s streaming services are narrow silos whose contents are invisible to those who do […]