José Menendez’s Music Industry Past Revealed: “You Did Not Want to Incur His Wrath,” Says Former Colleague

When headlines blared that businessman José Menendez had been shot 15 times along with his wife Kitty while watching TV in their Beverly Hills home on the evening of August 20, 1989, it registered as just another murder victim for most people, but those in the record industry instantly recognizedContinue Reading

Amazon, Google and verification vendors among ad tech cohort under fire from U.S. senators over child safety shortcomings

Adalytics has been a thorn in the side of major ad platforms that have characterized its research as flawed, but now it has found an audience in the highest echelons of government.  Members of Congress have sent letters to major tech companies, including Google and Amazon, expressing concern about adsContinue Reading

Urine-based Test Shows Promise in Detecting Bladder Cancer

TOPLINE: A urinary DNA methylation test demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity for detecting high-grade or invasive bladder cancer, outperforming both nuclear matrix protein 22 (NMP22) and urine cytology tests in sensitivity. However, the new test’s positive predictive value is suboptimal, indicating limitations in confirming the presence of high-grade or invasiveContinue Reading

“It’s one of our best tunes and one of my best basslines”: When Duran Duran fused Chic and Sex Pistols for one of bassist John Taylor’s standout performances

Mention ’80s British pop to us bassists and we’re bound to conjure up Sting’s deep, compositional Police lines, Pino Palladino’s ultra-melodic fretless sub-hooks with Go West and Paul Young, and Mark King’s iron-clad thumb work with Level 42. But there’s another voice of the era whose contributions loom larger inContinue Reading