My buddy Bruce Houghton at Hypebot, caught me last week for a quick interview before Rethink Music. Here is an except from our discussion: HYPEBOT: Your new focus is on consulting and investing. Are there any sectors, particularly within music and music tech, that particularly interest you or where you see the most room for growth? […]
Visions of the Future
Here are two visions for the future, one from Corning and one from me. The Corning video is from earlier this year and shows their vision for a visually connected communications environment. This is not unlike the future that Gerd Leonhard and I described in the Future of Music in 2005. Can you imagine organizing […]
Spin Magazine Book Club Pick – The Future of Music
From SPIN.COM MC Lars, a self-proclaimed “post-punk laptop rapper,” may be best-known for his fast-talking rhymes about Hot Topic stores and hipster girls, but the Bay Area musician is notably literary, and therefore a fitting participant in our ongoing series of musicians talking about their favorite books. Not only has MC Lars penned songs about […]



