At the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Thursday, Jan. 8, several television manufacturers announced that some of their models will show video from Internet streaming services. Two other new features were shown for the top-tier TV models: improved handling of fast-moving scenes and a reduction of power use. Read more...
10.1.09
TV’s Will Get Internet, 3-D and Power-Saving
9.1.09
‘Led Zeppelin are over’ says manager
Jimmy Page’s manager Peter Mensch told Musicradar that the band is over and will not tour any more, despite many indications to the contrary. After Robert Plant received a CBE from the Queen of England, and said he would not be doing a reunion tour with the band, it looks like the 2007 concert at the London O2 Arena was Zeppelin’s last. Read more...
Phish Announces Summer Reunion Tour
Phish have stated that they will be reuniting in June for their first tour in five years. Starting in New York’s Jones Beach on the 4th of June, Phish will then play in Asheville, North Carolina and St Louis, Missouri, and end the tour in East Troy, Wisconsin on the 21st. Continue reading...
Trent Reznor links to Nine Inch Nails live footage
On the Nine Inch Nails site, Trent Reznor has posted a link to live HD footage of three NIN concerts, available through bittorrent.
There is about 405gb of HD footage available. It was recorded with multiple consumer HDV cameras during three shows: Victoria 12.05.08, Portland 12.07.08, and Sacramento 12.12.08.
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Killers: “Getting fired was a blessing in disguise”
Killers guitarist Dave Keuning told NME about the first push to start the band in 2001: the post 9/11 economic crisis that left all the members unemployed for months.
Read more...“When I met Brandon, for about a year it was just me and him in the band,” Keuning said, “Our first phone call was just before 9/11, and we started practicing right around 9/11. I got fired just before then, because the store I was working at wasn’t doing any business anyway.”
8.1.09
Norwegian Beatles Podcasts Yanked
The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) has removed 212 Beatles podcasts, due to a rights agreement violation with music-label trade group IFPI. Each podcast, from the radio series “Our Daily Beatles”, aired in 2007, featured a different song from the Beatles repertoire, and the series would have effectively given the entire collection away for free.
The NRK had announced on Tuesday that they would make the entire series available for download by the end of the month, and 14 episodes even made it online. However, complications arose after it was revealed in NRK’s rights agreement that the IFPI only allows podcasts from shows broadcasted in the previous four weeks.
Record Breaking Digital Sales in 2008
In 2008, music single tracks sold 33% more than albums due to the increasing tendency towards online download sales and a fantastic 2008 release schedule. Young music fans have steered away from illegal downloads, and are progressively buying more songs online according to the BPI.
With 115 million tracks sold, big-selling releases by artists including Leona Lewis, Coldplay, the Killers and Take That helped the industry make record sales last year. Digital retailers and online stores have boomed with easy interfaces and mobile capability, and the future of the online music business is becoming more obvious. Cheaper is better.
Pocket Sized DJ System Arrives in the US
Now you can mix your own songs on the go! Tonium’s Pacemaker, unveiled Tuesday at the CES press event in Las Vegas, is not just a portable music player but also a portable mixer.
You can mix tracks together, reverse the playback direction, increase or decrease music speed by 100 percent, and employ audio effects such as reverb and delay. The Pacemaker also has a publishing platform for sharing music, with embeddable widgets!
6.1.09
In New Zealand File-Sharers Guilty if Accused
On 28 February 2009, ‘Section 92′ of the Copyright Amendment Act will come into effect in New Zealand. The act states that any Internet user accused of sharing copyright works is automatically guilty, and the punishment is abrupt disconnection from the Internet.
From the act:
Read more...“An Internet service provider must adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate circumstances, of the account with that Internet service provider of a repeat infringer.”
Jack Black Goes Bluegrass
Jack Black participated in the song Old Joe Clark on father-in-law Charlie Haden’s Grammy nominated album Rambling Boy. You can listen to it on Haden’s Myspace page.
He told the Associated Press:
Full article...“I wasn’t sure what to expect because I haven’t recorded or really sung any old songs like that before, bluegrass style, but it came very naturally and I cranked it out in two takes. There was something in the music that I think struck a chord in my DNA. I think I’ve got some hillbilly in my roots.”
Cancer Patients Become Musicians
At the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, patients can record songs in a studio provided by Purple Songs Can Fly, part of the Arts in Medicine Program. Since its inauguration in March 2006, 116 songs have been recorded at the fully equipped studio, some which have been aired on plane flights and even in space!
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Zune Player Crash Gets Examined
The universal Leap Year failure of the Zune 30GB on New Year’s eve became nationwide headline news. Now the leaked source code has been diagnosed. The examination is pretty enlightening, as it explains exactly why the crash happened.
The driver with the defective code is common to all Windows CE devices, and for those who are inclined toward coding, here’s an excerpt from the analysis:
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