Music

Pandora Premium

The first thing you’ll notice with Pandora Premium is that it takes fewer clicks to actually start playing music compared to Apple Music and Spotify. The app launches into My Music, which features a carousel of recently played albums and… Read More ›

Grandaddy, ‘Last Place’

Jason Lytle was burnt out. In the years following the release of Grandaddy’s beloved The Sophtware Slump at the turn of the century, the Modesto, Calif., indie-rock band had hit a wall of diminishing returns and inter-band frustrations. And Lytle,… Read More ›

Battle of the buds

Apple’s iPhone 7 isn’t the first phone to ship without a headphone jack. But the iPhone 7 is definitely the most important and popular phone to discard the headphone jack, and Apple is dragging the industry toward a wireless future,… Read More ›

AirPods thoughts

My thoughts: – I still enjoy using the AirPods – there are technical challenges, such as not connecting quickly enough and — worse — dropping out during calls and then re-connecting. Apple needs to address this as, currently, they are… Read More ›