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- Another radio search engine noted.
Thanks to ResearchBuzz.com for pointing out iheard.com, a new Internet radio search engine. It needs some work. I searched on “jazz” and found a KJAZ-FM streaming tribute site, an homage to the late, great San Francisco jazz station, the first on the coast, I think, begun in 1959 at the dawn of the modern FM [...]
- WHERE DO YOU GO FOR NEW MUSIC? WHY, THE NEWSPAPER, OF COURSE.
Thanks to Tom Taylor, whose newsletter steered me to this post from Web consultant Mel Taylor (no relation), who tells about the San Diego Union-Tribune’s new new-music Website. He says:
TV and Newspaper are getting into the local, online music space in a substantial way. Why? Maybe there’s a hole in most markets for a local [...]
- WHAT iPODs STILL WON’T DO…
Pick up FM radio. The new iPod Touch is radio-connected — wi-fi, that is. Link: Apple
- REQUIRED READING FOR RADIO FANS. AND OTHERS.
The New York Times Magazine’s lead story yesterday was a profile of Rick Rubin, the pop music guru who’s been handed the keys of Sony’s Columbia Records label. It’s a fascinating read for anyone who’s trying to figure out what do do with his/her life in light of the Internet. Rubin’s a very intuitive fellow [...]
- BIG NEWS
I’ve been trying, but it’s increasingly difficult to keep irony from dripping into my writing when I start a post for this site. In today’s radio trade news, one of the major stories is the introduction of ABC FM News, a new service of the radio network of, presumably, hourly or half-hourly newscasts to be [...]
- Review: Pure Jazz, Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius channel 72 is a good jazz station. It may be a great one. Radio and jazz haven’t made it together in the U.S., mostly. Jazz is an acquired taste, like avocados, or brussel sprouts, oysters. It asks more of its listener, more than classical music does, though its premise is simple: take a song, [...]
- Should music be free?
Internet radio stations are currently something of a Web cause celebre; should musical artists collect more money from the Websites that play their music for profit? To rehash an older tussle, should any kid with an MP3 player and a computer get free copies of anybody’s creation, just because? Should commercial on-air radio stations get [...]
