Entries Tagged 'Music' ↓

Launched June 2:

CBC Radio 3 Podcasts, “Radio 3’s podcast is truly unique: it’s full of amazing, 100% Canadian music from new and emerging artists. It’s great news for music fans and it’s even better news for independent Canadian musicians. We are extremely excited about the potential for exposing Canadian artists to a wider international audience with this new technology.”

Hours of wonder:

The Alan Lomax Database is now available on the web. Lomax, if you aren’t aware, was obsessive about scouring the US and around the world for authentic folk musical expressions and recording them for posterity. To have this available on the web makes the world a better place. [via Mobtown Blues]

Tech overkill:

My First iPod. “We got a bunch of baby lullabies on multiple CDs and I thought it would be cool to rip them all, put the MP3s on a spare iPod and ‘Pimp His Crib’ with a JBL OnStage.” From Gizmodo.

At Daring Fireball,

John Gruber has posted two great articles on the deficiencies of music subscription services, specifically Napster To Go: Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding the ‘Napster To Go’ Subscription Service and the followup Subscription Small Print. Gruber also makes an important point that iTMS purchases don’t replace CD buying, which speaks to the theory that new media do NOT replace old media (and never have), they supplement or complement old media.

Lessig in Wired:

Why Wilco Is the Future of Music.

Fun news:

it seems that artist Laurie Anderson has been chosed as NASA’s first Writer-in-Residence. The Globe has the story: A star lines up with the moon.

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