Napster vs The Record Labels | Interview with Mikael Wood

Mikael Wood is the pop music critic at the Los Angeles Times. He joined the paper back in 2012. But before that, he wrote about music as a contributor to publications like Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, the Village Voice and other alt-weeklies. He’s interviewed artists from Rod Stewart to Diplo... and many in between. But back when Napster was hanging on for dear life around the turn of the century, he was finishing up undergrad at Northwestern in Illinois… so he knows a bit about the digital music download boom personally.