FISTFULAYEN

I’ve been answering my phone, “Rock n Roll Doctor, can I make a music recommendation for you?” all day, asking people what they’ve been listening to lately and attempting to steer them to something they may like but haven’t heard before. Why? This weekend was Music Hack Day in SF. I participated along with Team [...]

I sent this tweet earlier today: A few people wrote back and asked what I was up to. This post is for you. I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus Android phone. It’s an amazing phone. But it uses batteries like your laptop, so you need to be prepared. As such, I have 4 (yes, FOUR) [...]

For those just tuning in, I’m running my first marathon since 2002 in LA in March and raising money for Pablove. If you don’t mind, please head on over to my fundraising page and give a little something. Anything is appreciated. Thanks so much to David, Kether, Char, Liz, Mom, Alysha, and Gia for the [...]

My friend David Pakman wrote a great piece on “unbundling” last week, describing how music was unbundled and what that means for media in general. It was timely for me, I’d just included a slide in Wednesday night’s class at UCLA entitled “The Great Unbundling”. I wrote a brief response including that slide plus a [...]

My first tech conference was working Comdex for IBM in 1993. My job was to show the research I was doing for the Indiana University Music Library which involved streaming Strauss’ “Also sprach Zarathustra” or Miles’ “Freddie Freeloader” (literally the only two tracks we had encoded for the demo) from an RS-6000 equipped with a [...]