Archive for the 'Commentary' Category
Sunday, February 3, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=N-lADZG6-PI
While perusing the Internet this morning, like you do, I stumbled upon this very compelling video at YouTube. I was drawn to it initially because the song used for the soundtrack is Ratatat's Gettysburg, and I'm a sucker for anything Ratatat related.
The video is a taut and thorough overview of the current state of nuclear weapons technology and proliferation in the world. It showcases all the ...
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nuclear weapons, ratatat, video
Monday, November 5, 2007
So Amazon recently threw its hat into the thunderdome of online digital music sales. The store's big brand name and huge retail operation instantly make it one of the top tier marts for digital music. As Amazon MP3 is seen primarily as a challenger to the iTunes Store's throne, I originally wanted to do a compare and contrast with that gorilla, but later thought that unfair ...
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aac, amazon, apple, classical, download, emusic, itunes, mogwai, mp3, pink floyd, radiohead, sonic youth, store
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Birthday season is in effect around the tunequest compound and themodernista kicked off the festivities by presenting me with my long-desired orange iPod Shuffle (2G) (which I have dubbed "Shuffleupagus"). I had been struck by the orange model since they were announced this past January, but despite its relative inexpensiveness, I could never justify purchasing one; I'm a fairly austere guy when it comes to material ...
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ipod, itunes, playlist, shuffle
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
via iLounge.
Apple today announced the expansion of its DRM-free iTunes Plus catalogue. The press release claims that the iTunes Store now offers the largest selection of non-rights-managed tracks in the world, with "more than two million" available.
I welcome news of the expansion, as well as the accompanying drop in price to $0.99 a track, but I have to question that superlative claim.
Apple doesn't say how ...
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apple, emusic, itunes, store
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Via this 9rules note:
HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE DOWNLOAD:
THE ALBUM WILL COME AS A 48.4MB ZIP FILE CONTAINING 10 X 160KBPS DRM FREE MP3s.
I haven't placed an order for In Rainbows yet because I was waiting to find out the quality and format of the digital files. With this news I'm a little disappointed. Sure, 160kbps is quite *acceptable* but I consider 192kbps to be ...
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download, radiohead, video
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
It's been nearly forty-eight hours have passed since Radiohead's surprise announcement set off an explosion of fandom around the web. Indeed, Blogpulse shows a more than 1300% increase in the number of posts mentioning the band from September 29 to October 1. Of course, a new Radiohead album is big news, especially after a four year wait, but the real source of conversation is the band's ...
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labels, nine inch nails, radiohead
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
When Travis covered ...Baby One More Time as tender British comfort rock, it was cute.
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When Jonathan Coultan did Baby Got Back as a singer/songwriter folk troubadour, it was funny.
When The Gourds played Gin n' Juice in up-the-mountain bluegrass style, it was just bizarre.
Play:
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alanis morissette, britney spears, covers, franz ferdinand, jenny owen youngs, jonathan coulton, lcd soundsystem, nelly, nirvana, radiohead, sir mix a lot, snoop dogg, travis, video
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
I don't use the site as much as I should, but it's cool nonetheless. But I find this trend of useful, independent websites getting bought by soulless corporations to be increasingly annoying. $280 million though. It sure it's hard for those UK boys to pass up.
The last.fm blog claims there's no reason to worry and that CBS "understands the Last.fm vision." Still, as we've seen with ...
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last.fm, technology
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
A couple months ago, I wrote about the advantages of maintaining a large digital music library, specifically with regards to cost and storage as compared to maintaining a large physical music library. One of my points was that the decreasing prices of hard drives makes it increasingly easy to store, as well as backup large quantities of high-quality music.
I even went so far as to ...
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backup, hard drive, storage
