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Several degrees of Air. Or, what's it take to get Air to remix a Beck song? Air gets Beck to remix Sexy Boy and provide vocals on Don't Be Light and the Vagabond. Beck dated and is married to Marissa Ribisi. Marissa Ribisi has a twin brother: Giovanni. Giovanni co-stars in Lost in Translation. Lost In Translation is directed by Sofia Coppola. Sofia Coppola also directed The Virgin Suicides. The Virgin Suicides' score ...

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So, by now, large portions of the internet is abuzz with the Federal jury decision that Microsoft has been violating some of Alcatel-Lucent's patents on the MP3 file format, which ahas been the backbone of the digital music revolutions and without which iTunes and the iPod would not have been possible. I couldn't help but note the timing of the ruling, since I had been been ...

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This post is part of the countdown to Air's fifth album, Pocket Symphony, which will be released March 6 in the U.S. If Premiers Symptomes found our protagonists as the house band at "Le Casino dans la Lune," then Moon Safari surely finds Air on its titular sojourn, casting off the confines of the lounge scene and setting off on a mission of exploration. This, Air's first album ...

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Air [french band]'s first album in three years, Pocket Symphony, will be released in a handful of days. In preparation for that event, I thought it would be fun to take a trip through the French band's back catalogue, starting with their earliest works, which range from the 1996 early singles to 1997's debut album Premiers Symptomes. :: Imagine it's 1969 and your thoughts are aimed toward the ...

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I established in the previous article that with all the interesting content out there, it can be quite daunting to listen to all those great podcasts. The ease with which iTunes lets you discover, subscribe to and manage podcasts can quickly lead to an overwhelming number of episodes and timespan to get through. "Podcast Overload" is a very real possibility. I also noted in that article that ...

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If you happened to miss the listening party, you can get your own small preview from the album's first single "Once Upon A Time," which is available from the iTunes Store. Alternately, you can pre-order Pocket Symphony from the iTunes Store and receive 2 bonus tracks (The Duelist and Crickets) plus a PDF of artwork. Update March 6: Pocket Symphony has been released. Get it. :: Today is the first ...

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When I was in middle school, I became a big fan of the first few entries to the Mega Man series of games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Game play was straight-forward. The stories were fairly one-dimensional Mega Man good; all others bad, but exciting. And each level, named for an element or mineral (Bubble Man, Heat Man, Air Man, etc), proved to be ...

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UPDATE March 26: After nearly a two month stint of being offline at the iTunes Store, the Star Trek TOS is back. The complete first season is available in its original broadcast form. Additionally, newly remastered episodes from the first season are available in their own section. iTunes is still the only source for them in their uncut form. :: Star Trek tv shows are suddenly missing from ...

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Volkher at livingwithmusic posted the other day a rather thoughtful treatise against digital music files as a medium. He does a good job of bringing up all the relative shortcomings of abandoning physical media, including the effort required to encode/download and properly organize/tag files as well as the burden and cost that goes into storage and preventative backups. And he's right on the money about picking ...

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