FISTFULAYEN

Aloha, Mr. Hands,
We’ve never met, though we have friends in common. In addition to working with one of your artists off/on for the past 14 years I was GM of Yahoo! Music for a bit (I recently left to join a startup you’ll hear more about soon, Topspin). I commend you for having [...]

Just a quick post to wish Bruce a happy birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRUCE) and share a couple records I can’t get enough of…
In an email where he also admitted to liking the Santogold record, Mike D turned me on to this AMAZING Joe Higgs reissue on Pressure Sounds, Life of Contradiction. It’s a roots [...]

Hey all,
I still can’t tell you exactly what we’re doing (and even when I finally make an announcement I’m only going to talk about 1/3 our product line, sorry), but I guarantee you it’s decidedly not lame. Even better than that, I think it’s going to be good for both people who make music [...]

It’s Friday night, Julie’s in the desert, Lucinda is asleep, Zoe’s at her mom’s, and the Topspin team is in IRC building killer software (yes, on a Friday night — ever wonder why big companies can’t compete with startups? you’re getting warm), but I’ve been needing to write about a few albums I’ve been [...]

I was giving a Topspin demo to some rock stars (of sorts) today and got called out: “Someone wants a Bad Brains t-shirt.” Of course I do, who doesn’t, but how did he know I’d just been searching for one? Did I leave the window open? No, worse, the words were still [...]