New Bob Dylan Album in April


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Bob Dylan‘s new album, whose title is still secret, will be released in April, according to Rolling Stone online. A story by our friend David Fricke quotes lyrics about Billy Joe Shaver (as opposed to Alicia Keys) and the article headline refers to the “dark new disc with a bluesy border-town feel.”

The last Dylan […]

March 4th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Music | Comments are closed

Who Will Be The Odetta of Now?


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May her memory and message of freedom live forever!

Harry Belafonte‘s eulogy of Odetta asked this question repeatedly Tuesday night at her memorial service, held at historic Riverside Church in Manhattan. I was honored to attend and hear Pete Seeger, Oscar Brand, Peter Yarrow, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez (separately, via video) — all […]

February 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Music | Comments are closed

Beatles Reissues on Ice, NY Times Lashes Out


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As if it were one last kick in the gut to the music business before another terrible year comes to an end, the NY Times today published an interesting but uninformative story about the delays in the Beatles’ digital and sonically enhanced cd reissues. Apparently there is an issue that EMI and the band’s company […]

December 27th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Marketing, Music | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Neil Young Rolls Through NY, Archives Trailer Released


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If you were reading my tweets, you know I was at the big Neil Young/Wilco show last night at good old Madison Square Garden, one of my favorite venues. I’ve been seeing shows there since 1979 and it rarely disappoints in terms of atmosphere and sound. Last night’s show was an awesome one.

Wilco was […]

December 16th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Marketing, Music | Comments are closed

GraphJam is Pretty Funny


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To see MoMA‘s Design and the Elastic Mind, click here.

One topic I’m interested in is Data Maps and other graphic representations of information. Last year’s exhibit at MoMA, Design and the Elastic Mind, included such illustrations as the rate of incarceration in a Brooklyn city block to a diagram based on the number of […]

December 9th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Technology | Comments are closed
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