Month: January 2017

How Jon Stewart Took Over the Daily Show and Revolutionized Late-Night TV: An Oral History

Jason Tate

Vanity Fair has an excerpt from a recently released book with the oral history of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

My wildest dream for The Daily Show when I started was “This will be fun. Hopefully we’ll do it well.” Success for me would’ve been feeling like I figured it out. That I got to express the things I wanted to. It was never “I want this to be a cultural touchstone … but only for a very small portion of America.” And I was hoping to stay on TV longer than nine months this time.

What a great read. I’ve already added the full book to my Amazon wishlist.

Logic Pro X and GarageBand Get Updates

Apple
Jason Tate

Logic Pro X for macOS and GarageBand for iOS have both been updated today. MacStories has a good rundown of the new features:

Logic Pro X 10.3 adds Touch Bar support to the app for the first time, implementing it in a number of ways. The Touch Bar can serve as an instrument, allowing users to tap out a drum beat or play a piano keyboard. Power users will appreciate the ability to keep some of their favorite controls on the Touch Bar, as it can be configured with different keyboard shortcuts to suit each person’s needs. There is also the option to navigate audio waveforms using the Touch Bar.

An Interview With Zane Lowe, Bozoma Saint John, and Larry Jackson

Jason Tate

Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Bozoma Saint John, and Larry Jackson sat down for an interview with Complex:

Zane Lowe: Larry was the first person who ever called me and asked if I wanted to be involved in Apple Music. For the most part, it remains how he and I talked about it in that first conversation, which was a place for music to live, and for artists to call home, and for an audience to feel like this is where the conversation is happening. I want it to go deeper than just availability.