Meanwhile back in the States, there’s good news and bad news for independent music. Payola investigations ramp up, and will hopefully lead to less graft and more opportunities for non-platinum artists to be heard.
More seriously, though, the U.S. Copyright Office is sounding the death knell for internet radio. A ruling passed on March 1st states [...]
If I’d realized at age 11 or so that Vienna is actually spelled Wien, and therefore anything “of Vienna” would be Wiener…well, things might’ve turned out a bit differently. You might be listening to Leipzig Teng. Or maybe Moscow.
Apparently I have a talent for missing airport pickups in Europe. On the trip to Berlin last [...]
I’ve been reading The Best American Science Writing 2006, edited by the excellent Atul Gawande. This particular anthology includes a number of hot-button social topics: “What Makes People Gay?” and “Is God An Accident?” appear alongside articles about cloning and longevity treatments. Fitting reading, I guess, while en route to the very-liberal Netherlands.
There’s also a [...]