If people are psyched on it, it’s going to get out there, because there is a demand for it…. Obviously you want people to buy your record, mostly because that’s the way you make a living. But also the packaging is important to me. I like putting work into that side of it and having it become these fickle ones and zeros floating around cyber space—it’s not very romantic.

— Chris Keating on how Odd Blood leaked almost two months in advance of its Feb. 9 release date (via BOMB; thanks Nate)

Yes, son; I know you can’t imagine what it must have been like, but I actually had one of the very first slates. It was called the ‘iPad’ back then, and I vividly remember exactly when I first laid hands on it.

— What we’ll tell our kids in fifteen to twenty years.
As much as I am tired of the rumor-mongering (just release it already), I can’t help the feeling that we’re on the cusp of a digital consumption revolution: one that began with the iPhone, really, and is just barely picking up momentum. (This is something that has been keeping me awake lately.)