The album: are reports of its death exaggerated or even relevant?
Are albums still relevant? This week, one of the last holdout bands showed up on iTunes. AC/DC had refused to have their music sold digitally for years. but finally made…
Musical Frights: The quest for the ideal Halloween playlist
I love making playlists. It’s one of the many ways in which iTunes revolutionized my music listening habits. I have playlists for my different friends when they come over, for…
Music as a commodity (a prologue)
This is just a quick post for tonight. I’ll eventually have much more to say about the devaluation of recorded music, but I wanted to share something I encountered this…
Don’t touch my stub!
In the last 20 years, concerts have been less and less the work of small, local promoters and increasingly in the hands of large concentrated corporations. Big tours now routinely…