This Week - Apr 26, 2013

Now is just a great time to start a music company. The record labels have embraced subscription services in a very big way--as the future of the industry.

— Fast Company

'Maybe next time we have a week, they can try not to pack it completely to the fucking brim with explosions, mutilations, death, manhunts, lies, weeping, and the utter uselessness of our political system,' said basically every person in America who isn’t comatose or a complete sociopath. 'You know, maybe try to spread some of that total misery across the other 51 weeks in the year. Just a thought.'

— The Onion

The use of mobile phones threatens to take away that intimacy and cheat those people in the room while giving a (sometimes literally) distorted impression to those who weren't in attendance in the first place - and why they'd want to see an out of focus performance from 400 feet away recorded on substandard equipment is anyone's guess.

— The Quietus

I hear it a couple times a day, 'I have just been so busy' and it’s the most boring answer to the simple question of, 'how are things going?'

— James Nord

Hulu or Fullscreen are of the latter Chernin, who wants to figure out how to build businesses around the explosive global growth of online video, which attracts more younger viewers than TV and has fewer barriers to entry.

— Variety