The power of the concert review

The website Ultimate Classic Rock ran an interesting story on May 11 concerning the breakup of the rock band Cream. To make a long story short, a review from the Rolling Stone’s John Landau left guitarist Eric Clapton devastated. Landau basically said that Cream was not being inventive with the brilliants minds in the band and were simply producing music similar to so many other musicians at the time, which opened Clapton’s eyes and caused the band to break up.

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Apple’s Artist Activity: Great in principle, bad in implementation

Last week Apple announced it was revamping its nearly-forgotten social networking service named iTunes Ping to create Apple Music. One of the new features that caught my eye of Apple Music was the “Artist Activity” feature, which will show who different musicians are listening to at any given point in time.

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