Tag: Music
Panasonic's slimline SV-SD870N music player is big on battery life
Panasonic isn’t the first name you might think of when it comes to MP3 players, but the SV-SD870N certainly could be a contender…
Opinion: Please, please me and put The Beatles on iTunes!
Jonathan Weinberg writes… Help, I need somebody, help, not just anybody, help, you know I need someone… who can blooming well tell me if we are ever going to be able to buy Beatles songs on the interweb.
I’m not one of those nuts who says they’re the greatest band in the world, but I can understand why it’s so important to have their tunes in digital form. After all, there’s millions of people out there who’d listen to the Liverpool Fab Four eight days a week if they could…
Inngenio 6000 – steel-clad touch screen media player
Another iPod challenger, with the Inngenio 6000 packing the now ubiquitous touch screen control…
Rotating speaker case for your iPod
Yet another add-on for your iPod but this rotating speaker case is actually a clever piece of design that isn’t going to add significantly to the bulk…
Chris Rea thinks you're on the Road To Hell if you download music online
Trent Reznor may be loving the shit out of digital downloads, but Chris Rea? Why, the brunette-Ian-McKellen-with-bum-fluff-lookalike crooner-pony can’t stand the thought of them! He thinks if you partake in it, you’re on the Road To Hell.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
I received a press release this morning, claiming Rea has decided to boycott them, and indeed, ‘won’t be succumbing to the culture of musical downloads’, as if it’s several degrees lower on the bad-list than hallucinatory drugs. It’s not just downloading he’s not supporting, he’s not even in favour of CDs or cassettes, choosing to release the forthcoming…
Nine Inch Nails angry-man Trent Reznor releases album online, with optional pricing
He’s been threatening it for a while, but finally Trent Reznor has put his money where his mouth is, and is ‘doing a Radiohead’ (late-2007’s most popular phrase), by releasing 36 instrumental tracks purely on the internet, with optional price sets.
Most of the casual Nine Inch Nails fans will no doubt go for the freebie option, ‘Ghosts I’, which is the first nine tracks from his Ghosts I-IV collection. They’re available as DRM-free MP3s along with a 40-page PDF. Going up the pricing ladder, for $5 you can buy Ghosts I-IV, which is all 36 tracks, then for a tenner you’ll get a double-disc set with a 16-page booklet, plus a download of the album for lazies who can’t be bothered to rip the CDs. This option won’t be available until April 8th, however.
Now, here’s where the hardcore NiN followers prick up their ears: $75 will secure you the ‘deluxe’ edition of Ghosts I-IV which will…
YouTube Hits: Intelligent Dance Music using sounds from Windows 98 and XP
It’s Windows Music Video time! You thought the ‘Windows 95 Sucks’ video from last Tuesday was clever? Wait until you see the video above, which has been created entirely using alert noises from Windows 98 and XP. My sources tell me Richard D. James from Aphex Twin is running scared…
Finally, The Charlatans' free album is available for download from Xfm. Err, who are they again?
We’ve been banging on so much about The Charlatans’ new album being a free digital download, any regular reader would think we actually like this band! We’ve also written about Cliff Richard too, if that changes your mind.
Yesterday the album You Cross My Path was made available on the Xfm website, where you can download it in 256kbps quality, ahead of the…
Brits buying more games than music on the high street
Statistics from the Entertainment Retailers’ Association reveals that in the UK, revenue from sales of video games is topping that of music sales for the first time. Video games are now the second most valuable entertainment market at £1,719m, still trailing the DVD market at £2,164m but rapidly closing the gap.
YouTube Hits: 'Windows 95 sucks' music video
This is my new favourite video, even if it *is* about how lame Windows 95 is. We all know that – there’s a reason why Windows 98 was created!
Similar to the Here Comes Another Web 2.0 Bubble video, some clever chap with too much time on his hands has taken a hit song from the Rolling Stones, and turned it into a song all about Windows…
