Tiziano Bonini (IULM): The New Role of Radio and its Public in the Age of Social Network Sites. Why are songs on the radio about the same length? Garrett Martin on how college radio is dying — and we need to save it. John McDuling on the reinvention of MTV, chapter one million. Mat Honan on death and iPods: A requiem. The classical cloud: Alex Ross on the pleasures and frustrations of listening online. Can Apple and Beats fix the economics of streaming music? An epic battle in streaming music is about to begin, and only a few will survive. It’s not just David Byrne and Radiohead: Scott Timberg on Spotify, Pandora and how streaming music kills jazz and classical. Scott Timber interviews David Lowery on how Pandora is destroying musicians. Rob Pegoraro on how Pandora's "Music Genome Project" explores the cold hard facts of how we interact with music. John McDuling on how “The Problem With Music” has been solved by the internet. Before the modern Internet, lots of media was "rare" — bootleg recordings, strange videos, obscure bands — but today, nothing is rare; as a consequence the social capital that comes from having an encyclopedic knowledge of some band's b-sides has been greatly diminished. There is something admirable about people with a passion for forms of media that have fallen by the wayside, and a case in point is the growing enthusiasm among audiophiles for monoaural recordings that date back to the early days of the LP album before stereophonic sound took hold in the late 1950s. James Reed on when technology became a musical instrument: Susan Schmidt Horning uncovers the importance of the studio sound. The T-Pain Effect: Kyle Kramer on how auto-tune ruined music — and saved hip-hop. From The New Yorker, do recordings kill music? Sasha Frere-Jones interviews David Grubbs, author of Records Ruin the Landscape; and on the perfect beat: is there such a thing as a “perfect recording”?
