AI

By David
January 17th, 2008

This week starts a fresh week of AI… American Idol or Artificial Intelligence… one and the same. The auditions are actually entertaining television, if you consider the prime-time mockery & exploitation of people who may be mentally handicapped entertaining or watching people who were told by an aunt once on Thanksgiving night that they [...]

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More Songs About Buildings and Food

By David
January 16th, 2008

Some years ago, Moby released a well-received album called Play. It also marked the first time that every song from an album (18 in this case) was licensed for advertisements around the world. The timing also went along with me seeing Moby on MTV Crib’s giving viewers a tour of his second home [...]

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Product Worship

By David
January 15th, 2008

Today marked the return of the modern day Willy Wonka. Santa Claus in a turtleneck. The techno tooth fairy. No one has ever camped out for a Bill Gates keynote, or at least won’t admit it. But this Jobs guy… he’s the pied piper of nerds. I can only imagine [...]

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This Note’s For You

By David
January 14th, 2008

Last week marked a celebratory milestone for music lovers when Sony BMG licensed their catalog for DRM-free digital distribution on Amazon.com. 89 to 99 cents to purchase a song which changed your life. Not bad. Prior to the Japanese-German combo joining, you were walking into a record store with a pretty [...]

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Long-time fan, first time caller

By David
January 11th, 2008

A friend passed along a great link today:
Everyone has a favourite song that no one else seems to have heard of. A selection of modern music luminaries reveal theirs

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Our favorite Italian restaurant of record stores

By David
January 10th, 2008

In the old days, people used to go to these fantastic things called record stores. You would walk around a physical place and browse physical things called compact discs, tapes and vinyl and bring them to the register because this was the only way to get recorded music.

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