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Snark the Web and Woes of Journalism
In his new book, Snark, David Denby dons a lab coat and rubber gloves and plays taxonomist with the kind of odious and repellent writing the Web has come to produce in such volume. Denby, who is a film critic for the New Yorker, makes a point that many online readers might readily agree with: Theres ...
The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age' by Steve Knopper. By ignoring online opportunities and clinging to its big-brother ways, labels find themselves lost in a new world. Few industries inspire more enmity than the record business. It's been tainted since the birth of rock, with transgressions ...
"The Contemporary Hand Drummer" Now Available
Develop contemporary hand drumming techniques with extraordinary speed and independence with this book/CD pack. The foundation of Afro-Caribbean music is explained, including the clave concept, and a comprehensive chapter containing the patterns of many of the most popular rhythms. Includes clear instructions, logical sequences, and sections on applying rudiments and on independence training which have applications ...
What Would Google Do ?
'Planet Google' by Randall Stross, What Would Google Do?" Asked in 2002 to describe the ultimate" search engine, Google co- founder Sergey Brin half-jokingly pointed to HAL 9000, the supercomputer from the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL . . . had a lot of information, could piece it together, could rationalize ...
As Dick Cheney Prepares to Depart, His Mystery Lingers
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency A few weeks ago, outgoing White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten gathered nearly a dozen former chiefs of staff in his corner West Wing office and held a courtesy orientation session for Rahm Emanuel, the next man to assume the second hardest job in Washington. The idea was ...
Ray Santisi's Berklee Jazz Piano
Play jazz piano with new facility and expression as Ray Santisi, one of the most revered educators at the Berklee College of Music. Mentor to Keith Jarrett, Diana Krall, Joe Zawinul, and thousands of others - reveals the pedagogy at the core of Berklee's jazz piano curriculum. From beginning through advanced levels, Berklee Jazz Piano maps ...
Author John King on Understanding Your Tribe
In Part 1 of my interview with John King, co-author of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, he gave us a brief explanation of how he thought the tribal stages of an organization could help us understand the occurrences of tribalism within an artist's fan base. Like many of you, the brevity ...
Movie Speak
Learning Movie-Speak If youre on a movie set and someone tells you, Give me two Ts or a cowboy with the Jack Lord and make sure the BG is visible as you pan and maybe well make that a one-er so just banana left, what do you do? Well one option is to pick up a ...
Judging an Elusive Artist by His Distinctive Covers
LONDON After years of scraping by on a pittance from designing record covers for indie labels, Barney Bubbles had turned 40 and needed to make some money. He did the rounds of the big London record companies, only to be told by several executives that they had met with younger designers who were passing off his ...
The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won You cant roll a joint on an iPod, the singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne told The New York Times Magazine early last year. And, O.K., I suppose thats among the iPods drawbacks. But its hard to think of an electronic device released in recent decades thats brought ...


