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On September 14, Sonos, Inc., the company whose <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/1006sonos">well-designed wireless Controller</A> adorns the cover of our October issue, announced the release of its Sonos System Software 2.0. John Atkinson and I rode to the 11th floor of Manhattan's glitzy Trump International Hotel and Tower, overlooking Central Park's brilliant canopy of green trees, to meet with Sonos co-founder Thomas Cullen and CEO John MacFarlane for a brief demonstration.

Brahms loved making jokes. "And if a good one doesn't occur to me, then [I'll make] a bad one."

What chapter comes after Chapter 11? The final chapter, of course. Looks like Tower Records has reached it.

Bagheera always looks so intense. She's either polishing up her unified field theory or plotting world domination.

There are a lot artists who try as you and they might, never really grab ya. Then there are those who made one single that for some odd reason touched you. No, not there! In the heart or the head or some combination of both. Most are pop artists. And most of these one track wonders fall into the category of the "guilty pleasure."

That's "roadie" as in cyclist. Decidedly non-PC and bound to offend folks who object to coarse language, but pretty funny for the rest of us.

Riders, or the contracts laying out what rock groups require for their performances, can range from straight ahead to the ridiculous&mdash;as in Van Halen's famous "no brown M&Ms" clause. Iggy Pop's backline rider is <I>intentionally</I> hilarious.