Two of my MP3 players have built-in FM radios, but the reception was so awful I never used them. Then I discovered a silly way to get a great signal.

The number of people making music is now so large that it makes sense to run consumer advertising in a music magazine.

Commoditization Watch: Gracenote Global Music Database Identifies 2 Billionth CD

People often liken my new book to a party; that analogy came to life this week when contributors Stewart Copeland (the Police), Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2, Frank Zappa), Albhy Galuten (18 #1 hits), and many more Cool People dropped by Digital Hollywood to help launch it.

What if the top recording and music-technology magazines decided to put hundreds of their past articles online for free—and then someone made a directory? You’d get this amazing site.

Apple's Garageband has been making me very happy, because it has so little going for it. It's just that what's there is exactly what you need when you have an idea -- it's the musical equivalent of a pencil and a piece of paper (a standard still unmet by any electronic technology).

Jim Reekes, the wily architect of many of the groundbreaking Mac system sounds, sets the story straight on his wicked beep.

Sometimes you can't just rock and roll all alone - you need Jimi or Stevie Ray along for the ride. The JamPod for guitarists allows portable iPod play-along jamming through headphones. But are there enough digital smarts in the device to make it truly useful?

I thought radio was dead, but now the hackers from the BBC shows us the there is life in radio and that radio may actually be a re-emerging technology.

Diving into a new technology changes you. And it always carries the risk that the technology will make you more like a machine. But if you bounce back, you may find that you can become more human.