I’ve been harping on about how the next big shift in listening habits is going to come in the car.  As soon as infotainment systems get a little more user-friendly and as more people start plugging their smartphones into their dashboards, things are going to get really, really weird for traditional radio.  And I maintain that it won’t be a gradual thing.  As soon as the stars align, radio will go over a cliff.

And let’s you think I’m on the only one, check out what Fred Jacobs has in his blog today.

Back in the day, they called The Clash “the only band that mattered.” And if you remember those years, it was easy to understand why.

It was the decade marked by hit songs from Canadian performers like Sloan, The Tragically Hip, Barenaked Ladies – to name a few. It was the 1990s, and it’s celebrated in the new, two-part documentary Life Is a Highway: Canadian Pop Music in the ’90s.

One of the coolest things I ever heard was a raw 24-track version of Queen’s “Killer Queen.”  It was the original two-inch master tape that Roy Thomas Baker used to mix down the

Florence and the Machine’s set up at Abbey Road May 2011Florence Welch is on the phone and she sounds far more self-assured than the woman I first talked to almost three years ago.  The relentless touring behind her debut album, Lungs, hasn’t seem to hurt her a bit.

Florence and the Machine’s second album–due October 31 in the UK and Europe and November 1 in North America–will be called Ceremonials.