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April 23, 2012
Why I Gave Up On Record Store Day
Last week a ton of stories about Record Store Day percolated through blogs—Feistodon! The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends! St. Vincent! Beach House! Holy crap, you gotta get on line at 8 a.m. to get the best picks! On Friday, when I got an email from a store that contained both a list of records ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 11, 2012
KILL YR COMPUTER
Bands show record shops some love
Blogs
December 28, 2011
Drunk Online Shopping Will Save This Wretched Economy!
Credit card debt? What credit card debt? Oh, pour yourself another drink. The latest fun -- and healthy! -- thing we're all doing under the influence of a little boozin' is...shopping on our own personal computers, from home, at night, after a hard day's work, with the jug of wine next to us. In a f ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
Patagonia's Cyber Monday Reverse Psychology
Patagonia, the one that makes fleeces and outdoor performance-type clothes, is employing a different tactic from every other retailer on this Cyber Monday. They're trying to get you not to buy their clothes. Reverse psychology or do they actually mean it? Their statement/manifesto reads in part:
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Manhattan Gas Stations Are an Endangered Species
New York City gas stations are fewer and farther between than ever, according to a Crain's article that reports there are just 41 remaining in Manhattan (there were 58 two years ago). There are 835 gas stations distributed throughout the five boroughs, with Manhattan's share counting for less than 5 ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 8, 2011
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New York City gas stations are fewer and farther between than ever, according to a Crain's article that reports there are just 41 remaining in Manhattan (there were 58 two years ago). There are 835 gas stations distributed throughout the five boroughs, with Manhattan's share counting for less than 5 ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Record Store Day: How Shops, Labels, Fans, And Those Annoying Resellers Benefit
If you can snag this, congratulations, you've won. Saturday marks the fifth annual Record Store Day, the celebration of all things indie, vinyl, and limited edition-slash-noble ploy to get customers through the doors of the music stores still standing in the spring of 2011. It's basically the ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2011
VINYL MANIA
Pick a record shop and have a party
Voice Choices
December 1, 2010
HANDMADE HOLIDAYS
Little businesses with a lot of soul
Blogs
November 17, 2010
Changes At eMusic: Def Jam In, Matador And Merge Out
Better go get this now.If you want a one-URL "major" vs. "indie" battleground -- what defines and/or divides them, which lifestyle brand the discerning-legal-downloader demographic really prefers -- you could do far worse than eMusic, the excellent monthly-subscription MP3 service (which empl ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2010
Pressuring 'Rat'-ner in Brooklyn
Either this rat really can't wait to get shop at Best Buy, or somebody hasn't negotiated with the union. It is of course the latter. Local 79 was protesting this morning outside of the old Circuit City in the Atlantic Mall in downtown Brooklyn, which went belly-up last October. Like the Cir ... More >>
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May 21, 2010
Richard Blumenthal Talked Tough About Exact Language, But Was Lax About Words That Described Him
Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general running for senate, has been channeling our own David Paterson, blasting the Times rather than owning up to his own blunders. The only "Vietnam vet" to confuse Da Nang with the Harvard Swim Club, Blumenthal either actively or p ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
Justin Bieber Tops MGMT, Plus An Analysis Of The Best-Selling (Well, Maybe) Record Store Day Singles
This week's album chart has in its first two positions the two biggest stories in pop music last week. Once again, the pole position was assumed by Canadian teenager Justin Bieber, whose first full-length, My World 2.0, sold 92,000 copies--only the second time this year that the No. 1 album h ... More >>
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April 16, 2010
Presenting The Ultimate Record Store Day Guide: See Some Music, Buy Some Music, Or Make Your Own
It's that special time of the year again: Record Store Day, which is like Teacher Appreciation Day for independent record stores. Saturday, to celebrate their tenacity, among other things, record stores around the city are holding performances, releasing exclusives, and offering once-in-a-blu ... More >>
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January 19, 2010
Gov. Paterson Uncorks Another Wine-in-Supermarkets Bill; Opponents "Outraged"
Gov. Paterson has once again proposed a measure that would allow supermarkets to sell wine. This time, he's making the proposal part of his 2010-2011 budget. And once again, depending on who you listen to, it's either the end of the world as we know it, or the second coming of the messiah. ... More >>
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January 12, 2010
"There Is No Way To Overstate How Passionately Some People Hate This Record": In Praise of eMusic's Clear-Eyed Appraisal Of The R.E.M. Catalog
One fear, as fine digital purveyors like Rhapsody and eMusic expand and mutate and more frequently generate fine music criticism of their own, is that they'll shy away from, well, criticism -- as they are literally in the music business, they'll be loathe to talk trash even when trash-talk m ... More >>
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December 21, 2009
The Listening Habits of New Yorkers in 2009, Revealed
According to Last.fm, anyway. No real surprises--we listened to way more Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jay-Z, etc. than did the rest of the world. Plus we basically stole Phoenix from France and Girls from California. For a kind of smug satisfaction, watch as music crops u ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
Black Friday Fails to Save America; Cyber Monday Our Last Hope
Apparently you cheap bastards didn't shop hard enough to move the needle this weekend -- or shopped not well but too wisely, scarfing up bargains when America needed grotesque impulse purchases to pull out of its economic nosedive. The National Retail Foundation says more shoppers spent less: ... More >>
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November 27, 2009
No One Dead Yet on Black Friday; Zhu Zhu Sold Out
CNN Money has just reported that the pagan ritual of Black Friday today is "frenzied, but no trouble," meaning there have so far been no spectacular, fatal tramplings like last year's Walmart tragedy in Long Island. But we'll keep our eyes peeled. So far the big tragedy is that Toys R Us se ... More >>
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July 7, 2009
Court Keeps Ban on Direct Sale of Wine in New York State
In what wine lovers and foodies are decrying as a great blow to life, liberty, and the pursuit of drink, today an appeals court judge has upheld New York laws that prohibit consumers from buying wine directly from retailers located out-of-state. Two New York residents, Joshua Block and Sharon Silb ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 13, 2009
A Camp
In what wine lovers and foodies are decrying as a great blow to life, liberty, and the pursuit of drink, today an appeals court judge has upheld New York laws that prohibit consumers from buying wine directly from retailers located out-of-state. Two New York residents, Joshua Block and Sharon Silb ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2009
Circuit City Dies, 30,000 to be Laid Off
You may remember that in the early days of the TARP, people would ask why we were bailing out banks but not Circuit City, the troubled electronics chain that went bankrupt in November. They were told then that private sector capitalism would sort it out, and in late December Circuit City got a $1.1 ... More >>
Music
January 7, 2009
How the Music Industry Died: Steve Knopper's Appetite for Self-Destruction
A Rolling Stone reporter charts the doomed path from Thriller to Internet-based horror
Blogs
January 6, 2009
More Apocalyptic Discourse with Appetite for Self-Destruction scribe Steve Knopper
'If they're waiting for the next Thriller to come along and save everything, they're really, really misguided. I hope they've figured it out by now.' This week in the hopelessly antiquated print version of the Voice, I chat with veteran Rolling Stone editor/reporter Steve Knopper, whose new book ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2008
One More Reason Not to Shop at Wal-Mart
'If they're waiting for the next Thriller to come along and save everything, they're really, really misguided. I hope they've figured it out by now.' This week in the hopelessly antiquated print version of the Voice, I chat with veteran Rolling Stone editor/reporter Steve Knopper, whose new book ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2008
Clip Job: The Long, Slow Death of Bookshops
'If they're waiting for the next Thriller to come along and save everything, they're really, really misguided. I hope they've figured it out by now.' This week in the hopelessly antiquated print version of the Voice, I chat with veteran Rolling Stone editor/reporter Steve Knopper, whose new book ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2008
Bad Holiday News Now Extends to Black Friday
'If they're waiting for the next Thriller to come along and save everything, they're really, really misguided. I hope they've figured it out by now.' This week in the hopelessly antiquated print version of the Voice, I chat with veteran Rolling Stone editor/reporter Steve Knopper, whose new book ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2008
Start Your Own Bookstore: Only $250,000 Down
'If they're waiting for the next Thriller to come along and save everything, they're really, really misguided. I hope they've figured it out by now.' This week in the hopelessly antiquated print version of the Voice, I chat with veteran Rolling Stone editor/reporter Steve Knopper, whose new book ... More >>
Music
September 10, 2008
Why MySpace Music Won't Succeed
Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not
Blogs
July 24, 2008
Little Sweatshop of Horrors?
Rupert Murdoch's pride and joy is trying to go legit; mayhem may ensue, and success may not
Voice Choices
April 15, 2008
JUST SAY NO TO ITUNES
A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals
Blogs
April 10, 2008
Updated: Record Store Day Saturday, April 19 Now With Deerhunter Vs Grizzly Bear DJ Hour
A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals
Blogs
October 15, 2007
Urban Outfitters gets Cheaper, SJP Style?
A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals
Blogs
July 5, 2007
Universal Records Fucks Up Bad
A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals
Blogs
June 13, 2007
EL-P To Play Urban Outfitters in July
A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals
Blogs
March 8, 2007
Brooklyn Zipper Innovator Sues the Gap
A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals
Blogs
February 7, 2007
Gap's Crazy Spring Khakis
A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals
Blogs
January 25, 2007
H&M Home Not a Dream
A special day to visit your lonely record-store pals
Books
May 16, 2006
Chain Reaction
Do bookstores have a future?
Music
July 5, 2005
Never Ending Math Equation
After the court decision, file shares and mixtapes float on
Music
June 7, 2005
Mondo Kim's Busted for Bootlegs
After the court decision, file shares and mixtapes float on
Music
May 24, 2005
One More Cup of CD for the Road
Starbucks boldly markets its mild music blend
Screens
February 15, 2005
iTunes, yr Tunes
Napster revives the freedom to explore, but will it dent Apple's now iconic market hegemony?
Music
December 7, 2004
Fair Useless
Corporations vainly scheme to the beat of a different DRM
News
August 24, 2004
Let's Run the Tape
A German TV network uses a marathoner to win the anti-convention footage race
News
March 18, 2003
Darknet Blues
The Music Industry Makes Peace With Big Software—at Dial-Up Speed
News
March 19, 2002
Rough Trade
Little Johnny and Big-Biz Music Duke It Out Over Peer-to-Peer Software
News
February 19, 2002
Eyeing What You Read
FBI in Libraries and Bookstores
News
August 1, 2000
Napsternomics
The Pop Solution to Downloading
News
May 9, 2000
Keeping Up With the Napsters
At Pho, a Thousand E-mails a Month Track the Great Digital Debate
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