I’m looking forward to Pandora’s impending new radio offering featuring Questlove of Tonite Show fame. The press release says the program will be called “Questlove Supreme”: ” . . . a raw and ingenious three-hour show curated and produced by the four-time GRAMMY winner. The show will be a weekly ride through the global musical landscape featuring adventurous music selections, […]
Happy anniversary number ten to Think Twice Radio, the online talk cornucopia that invites you to think many times, actually. TTR is basically a matrix of interesting people who cogitate out loud about everything from dating to the origins of rock and roll to the BDSM scene in Buffalo, New York. A lot of the participants come from Buffalo, […]
My third book about radio is scheduled to be released on March 31 by its publisher, ABC-CLIO. It is titled Radio 2.0: uploading the first broadcast medium. The writer Susie Bright has already noticed its release via her Twitter account. The press has a very nice page for the small tome on its website. I […]
Plug.dj is gone, but the idea of a service that offers virtual dj rooms to music sharers will not die. Four alternate turntable room style applications have become more prominent over the last six months: Dubtrack.fm, Juqster, Beatsense, and Soundtrack.io. Compared to plug.dj and its predecessor turntable.fm, they’re pretty bare bones. But maybe that’s the application/economic […]
Shortly after the announcement that the turntable-style music sharing room plug.dj would cease operation, I wrote to the site’s founder, Jason Grunstra, for an analysis. “It really just comes down to money,” Grunstra responded. “The development and hosting of a massive real-time application is no small feat. It’s incredibly complex and we just couldn’t find […]
I was very sorry to see the following announcement posted in my plug.dj room today: “Thank you for joining our party and plugging in with us,” the statement says. “Unfortunately, we did not reach the amount needed to keep plug.dj online any longer.” Plug.dj’s latest blog post doesn’t offer much more information. I don’t have […]
“It has come to the point that the costs of running plug.dj exceeds the income that we are generating, and that could prove disastrous to the future of plug.dj if we don’t make some important changes very soon,” warns the latest plug.dj missive on its blog site. Plug.dj is asking its members to donate six […]
Strolling along my old stomping grounds in the East Village of Manhattan last week I ran into this marvelous new mural, painted on the corner of Second Avenue and First Street. (more…)
Doh! I missed a station in my overview of recent Low Power FM activity in Wisconsin. Radio Survivor reader Daniel Hintz writes to us: “Great article. Saw no mention of the great station I currently DJ at, though: WXRW in Milwaukee, Riverwest Radio. We have our LPFM license in hand and we will soon be […]
Larry Rosin of Edison Research has this to say on his blog about the new music discovery market and radio: “Our tracking data shows that over the course of the last 13 years ‘Radio’ has been supplanted by ‘Internet’ as the source Americans turn to first to learn about new music.” It certainly has, as […]
