links for 2011-01-18

"Wait is not a word in the vocabulary of the current generation. It's out of date to think that you can build up demand for a song by playing it for several weeks on radio in advance," according to David Joseph, the chief executive of Universal Music UK.

This time though, she thinks the rise of technology and a musical middle class, as well as, the destruction of rock and roll mythology, has killed it… for good.