Tom Foremski, editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, led a panel discussion on Day 1 of the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The panel dealt directly with the friction that often arises between the burgeoning social media forces in the enterprise and the IT groups that find themselves ...

More of our interview with NY Oil.

One of the underground hip-hop scene’s most talked-about emcees explains why he sees the death of the music industry as a sign that God is alive.

Even though the music business has tried to make it obsolete, the vinyl record is still alive and kicking. People still love it, and there has even been a small resurgence of sales of vinyl records in the last few years. And somewhere around the country almost every weekend there ...

It’s no secret in the valley that venture capitalist Roger McNamee is a rocker at heart. By day, he does deals from his Elevation Partners office on Sand Hill Road. But in his spare time, he writes songs and plays guitar for Moonalice (his “old” band was called ...

Russell Morgan, chief operating officer of GroupieTunes, explains how the company uses cell phones to reach out to customers and increase the awareness for customers. Their “Mobile Community Network Enabler” platform allows, for instance, music fans to get messages and alerts from favorite groups anytime and anywhere.

If you’ve been following Lo-Fi Saint Louis you’ll know that we’ve covered these guys before. This time I caught the 7 Shot Screamers at The Lot Festival, an annual music event hosted by Metropolis St. Louis. It’s always a good time. This is the first of a short ...

This conversation about casting for movies is with Davia Nelson, who has worked with Francis Coppola, Phil Kaufman, Barbet Shroeder and she has become a Peabody Award-winning radio creator of Hidden Kitchens on NPR. One of those shows is now the basis of a Broadway ...

Bangalore is fast-emerging as a hub for wireless and mobile value added servicess startup companies. I recently caught up with Raji Poddar of Sedna Wireless to find out how and why he started his company. Doing startups in India provides some interesting challenges. Recruiting the right kind of person to ...

Mark Vickroid makes his own guitars from cigar boxes. Some of them have little amps built in. I first came across him playing in the street when I was shooting the RFT St. Louis Music Showcase in June. His guitars and his music are the embodiment of the Punk DIY ...

Convergence 2.0, The Deal’s September 17, 2007 conference being held in New York City is looking like a sell-out event. Richard Morgan, Assistant Managing Editor of The Deal, talks with PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about the gathering of private equity, venture capital and corporate executives who will hear about the ...

This is a first in a couple of ways, this is a video from the first show ever of a new band, The 75’s. And the first time we’ve ever featured a clip of a band at their debut performance. The 75’s are a (mostly) female trio that describe ...

The RFT Music Showcase is a annual event where some of the best music acts in town get to perform on a single day within blocks of one another. It’s actually a pretty incredible event where you get to sample a lot of bands in a short period ...

Blowfly started his career in the 1960s as a songwriter (he’s written songs under his real name, Clarence Reid). He wrote songs for Betty Wright, Sam & Dave, Gwen McRae and KC & the Sunshine Band, among others. But he always had a second career as the dirty ...

You might know Doc Popular as a nerdcore rapper, or a lo-fi techno musician who plays on bent toy electronics, or maybe you bought one of his crafty blue jean wallets, or read one of his comics, or maybe you’ve seen him in a video or two right ...

SeeqPod is an interesting music discovery service that provides a way to find most any linked music files on the Internet. You can quickly build playlists from found music, discover similar music based on genetic similarities and share your playlists by embedding them in your blog. SeeqPod also has ...

Jamison Young is a full-time artist who has refused to sign up with big record labels. Instead, he believes in giving away his music for free using Creative Commons, and that has surprisingly helped him sell more records. Now, this may sound contradictory but Jamison says that by giving ...

Matthew Gertner, CTO of AllPeers, shows me how easy it is to share music and files with my friends using AllPeers.

A few weeks ago, I posted a video from the Venus Envy art show. And I got a great response from the music I used in that video’s sound track. That band was the Helium Tapes. I got a lot of requests about the availability of their music for purchase. ...

The Hibernauts is starting to get some good attention from the press. They say that they are influenced by bands like Pixies, Flaming Lips, Velvet Underground, The Kinks, The Turtles, Doves, Grandaddy, The Zombies, The Beatles, Rolling Stones with Brian Jones, The Who, The Cure, MC5, The Beach Boys, ...

John Buckman is a serial entrepreneur, a musician, a marketeer and an open media evengelist, but he’s better known as the CEO of Magnatune, an indpendent, profitable online record label whose tagline closely matches that of Google’s: “We are not evil.”

Sonos is a unique addition to your home entertainment system. It lets you play digital music anywhere in your house. Here, John McFarland, CEO, gives us a good runthrough of what Sonos is.

MixerCast’s CEO, Jennifer Cooper, demonstrates how to use Mixercast to build new “media stories” that include photography, music, photos, and other media. Here we mix up an interview and get a demo of Mixercast too.

I had the opportunity to catch a ton of bands last weekend at the annual Riverfront Times St. Louis music awards showcase. And one of the acts that I really dug was Jesse Irwin. Jesse does a solo acoustic folk act and the song he plays here is a ...

A musical homage to this year’s Superbowl coaches.

(originally recorded January 2007)