Lucy in Space with Asteroids

NASA has a mission to visit the Trojan asteroids and, given that it's a long voyage, they want to fill up Lucy's MP3 player with all sorts of cool music inspired by Lucy's journey. Okay, not quite, but they do want to inspire more music to come into the world based on Lucy's theme: NASA's …

To stream or not to stream, that is the question

I stream music. Sometimes. Not at the moment. I've been on Apple Music on and off for the last couple of years. Every so often, I take a break from it. I'm on a break right now that started perhaps two months ago when I let an annual subscription expire. This is driven by a …

How do you recommend to an omnivore?

I love iTunes, and I love the variety of songs I can purchase from the iTunes store. But sometimes I wonder what their computers must "think" of my varied tastes. I even wonder whether I might be messing up their recommendation software. And a similar question applies to theatres who want to market to me. …