The Entroporium

Pamela Z and Matt Davignon visited the studio to discuss the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival and preview some of its featured artists.

An attempt to celebrate California’s marriage equality law. Pull a loved one close for two hours of tunes and more about love, devotion and gettin’ hitched.

It’s the world’s biggest entertainment focus group as well as a harkening back to DeToqueville’s vision of Democracy In America.

Upon its release in 1983, Duck Rock’s distillation of Soweto, South Bronx and proto-electronica sounded like nothing on earth and everything on it at the same time.

Even if it’s staged as a rock concert with an open bar, it’s pretty tough to get musical-goers out of their seats.

It could well be that I’ve missed this analysis – goodness knows there are a few newsies and bloggers that follow Apple – but the main point of the Lala acquisition may have gone over their heads for one key reason: the folks initially reporting the story haven’t actually tried to use Lala. One of the [...]

Last night I attended an author event in San Francisco where Nick Hornby was interviewed by Dave Eggers.  Towards the end of the evening, an audience member asked Hornby’s opinion of E-readers.  A palpable shudder went through the crowd; you could feel the room waiting and rooting for the bash to come.  Hornby went one better, bringing [...]

I’m a music obsessive with over 200GBs of MP3s in my iTunes library.  I use a 16GB iPhone and had been loading it principally with my ‘New’ finds and stuck with a few ‘No Deletes,’ leading to a selection of music that rarely suited my moods and provided very few safe old favorites.  All too [...]

Originally released in 1967, The Who Sell Out received the Deluxe Edition reissue treatment earlier this year –  and it could not have come at a more prescient moment.  As the music industry’s revenue continues to fall and fall and fall, some of the cleverer music marketers are seeking new ways to promote their artists and [...]