Phil Collins has long passed his prime of popularity, but the news of his retirement is meaningful to me. After his initial stint as lead vocalist for Genesis, he shocked the radio airwaves with In the Air Tonight. He did so by bringing drums to the forefront of a [...]
While the music industry has decided that the biggest culprit of declining revenues is free streaming music, The Kansas City Star (a most unlikely source) anoints Thesixtyone.com as site of the week. I must admit that it streams some great music. TheSixtyOne is also unique in terms of [...]
Sabian has posted three great videos, featuring Jojo Mayer, for it's Omni line. In the demo video series JoJo discusses his quest for a crash/ride that will actually do both. What he says he discovered in the Omni is a cymbal that not only does both, but really delivers a [...]
Crap! I was looking forward to upgrading my phone and not my MP3 player. Hypebot recently reported that ComScore's Digital Year in Review ranked music listening as last in a list of top ten popular mobile activity activities. Maybe that's because a mobile phone is still a phone and now [...]
Radiohead broke ground in the industry with its release of In Rainbows Radiohead broke ground in the industry with its release of "In Rainbows," and its online pay-what-you-want model. Their forthcoming album will, not surprisingly, sell by a more traditional model--the price is this. Even so, the band is still [...]
Back in 2011, Wilco announced that they were parting ways with their record label, deciding to release under their own label. I originally sited a post by Sarah Szczerbiak post on Culturemob.com, but have since found the news well covered by Billboard. The story had caught my attention because Wilco [...]
