FISTFULAYEN

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 [...]

Billboard and Hypebot both had articles this week speculating who Google may be calling to lead their music initiative. Surprisingly, my name was on the lists and I had more than a few inquiries hit my mailbox asking how I felt about it. Rest assured, I can happily report I’m not leaving Topspin for Google [...]

I like Bob Lefsetz and while I don’t always agree with him I think the music industry is lucky to have such a prolific and unfiltered voice of dissent. I originally discovered Bob via the Rhino podcast many years ago. The podcast included “The Lefsetz Letter”, a portion of the show where an animated character [...]