The Entroporium

As a taster for this weekend’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, I hosted local stars of honky-tonk country and western swing Emily Bonn & The Vivants live in studio. A full set by Emily and her band, plus a sampling of some of the great artists that will be featured out in Golden Gate Park, October 1-3 2010.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last Friday, my friend Dennis took me down to the parking lot of the HP Pavilion to check out The Roots. Actually, that’s not quite right. It was the Dew Action Sports Tour, featuring The Roots playing out back after all the BMX jumping was over. I’d never been to one of these action sports [...]

MP3 – John Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls (34.4 MB) http://entroporium.com/mp3/01%20On%20the%20Transmigration%20of%20souls.mp3 From Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul: Ours is a time of connection. All must be touched. All touch corrupts. All must be corrupted. Foreign Policy: The Day Nothing Much Changed [I]f you look closely at the trend lines since 9/11, what is remarkable is how [...]