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The Fault, Dear Brutus, Lies Not In Our Starbucks
You know how you go to Starbucks to hang out, and they?re always playing this cool retro music which happens to be on sale right there, so you stop by the barista again on the way out and say, ?You know, I think I like that Pink Martini CD. Ring…

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Eagles’ new CD: A bargain or a bust?
Sure, the Eagles are making fans buy their first new studio album in 28 years, ‘Long Road Out of Eden,’ exclusively at Wal-Mart or its sister businesses .

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Though he might be best known for whipping things as part of the seminal new-wave band Devo, there’s more to the musicianship of Mothersbaugh than just “Energy Domes” and chemical-protection suits. Ask him, though, and you’ll get what you came for: “I’m a musical reporter reporting the good news of DEVOlution to this day,” says Mothersbaugh, who goes back to hitting the road with Devo this August.

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As the band’s cultural influence began to wane in the mid-1980s, Mothersbaugh adapted by expanding his influence into television and film—over 70 projects to date. He started, appropriately enough, with the soundtrack for Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise . Since then, Mothersbaugh’s applied his unique musical styling to everything from The Royal Tenenbaums to the soundtrack for The Sims 2 , including a substantial body of work through children’s television and movies.

“With each project, I try to look at it as a fresh project, and I know that’s different than a lot of composers and a lot of artists,” says Mothersbaugh. “For me it doesn’t feel untrue to pick up an accordion and maybe run it through a guitar amp with a wah-wah pedal, and have that replace a string section in a classical piece. It doesn’t always work, but I’m always looking for interesting juxtapositions and positive mutations.”

Mothersbaugh’s creative blending of the nostalgic with the modern extends to his personal life as well. His new house has speakers in every room, but it also contains his favorite retro toys, including a record player that can play 40 hours’ worth of vinyl and a legion of black-and-white movies—the only format he watches nowadays.

Mothersbaugh typically gives his iPod to his daughter, Margaret, so she can catch up on episodes of Sesame Street , but he still thinks that a musical watershed is approaching. Though still an old-school aficionado, he admits that digitally released music is on a course to trump antiquated, plastic media. And to Mothersbaugh, an overall change in the musical landscape is a good step.

“When you look at the bigger history of music and performed music, and what popular music was, it really involved people sharing things more freely without charging each other for it,” Mothersbaugh says. “I think music will go back. It’ll get taken away from the Paris Hiltons and the Britney Spearses of the world, which are just some sort of a concoction anyhow, and it’ll eventually come back to people that are making music because they love to make music. I’d love to be a part of that, on the side that still gets to make music when the smoke clears.”

Brian “BT” Transeau

Ask a pioneer of electronica how he likes to lay down his newest amalgamations of sound, and Brian Transeau, or BT, will tell you that it’s all about the basics. And that doesn’t mean writing out songs or tablature. BT’s process has been forever influenced by his newfound love for the CSound programming language.

Nike Plus
With the help of a receiver in the shoes and an adapter plug-in for the iPod nano, the Nike Plus shoes communicate with the nano, giving you a voice report of time, distance, calories burned, and pace. You can upload the data to Nike’s Web site to track progress.
Kit, $29; shoes, $85 to $110
www.nikeplus.com

Koyono BlackCoat
The BlackCoat uses an iPod connector and sewn-in washable fabric controls to allow iPod access without actually touching the iPod. The controls, placed by the inside chest pocket, are only 0.6-mm thick and are touch-sensitive. There are four versions of the coat, ranging from casual (BlackCoat Surf) to professional (BlackCoat Work).
$199 to $275 list
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iPopMyBaby Click-Wheel One-Pieces
Subject your baby to your tech nerdiness with this adorable American Apparel-made one-piece with an iPod jog wheel on the front. This item comes in a variety of colors and sizes for babies 6 to 18 months.
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SFGate: RATING: Since the 2005 release of “Arular,” heady words like “globalization” and “postmodernism” have been par for the discourse surrounding Sri Lankan sensation Maya “M.I.A.” Arulpragasam. But while her first CD’s unique brand of world music -…

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Video for Amanda Lear’s “Lili Marleen” from her 1979 album “Never Trust A Pretty Face”.
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At work, I dock my iPod and switch to the Sennheiser PX100 headphones. Lucky for me, my job involves testing audio gear, so I get to use a variety of software (iTunes, WMP, Musicmatch) and services (Rhapsody, Napster, Audible, Vongo) nearly every day while I’m at my desk.

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On the following pages, we offer some tips and buying advice for music lovers. And if you’re also a musician like me, don’t miss our lowdown on setting up your home studio or being your own DJ.— Music Subscription Services >

“We’ve married up [Gracenote’s] metadata technology with our voice recognition,” Peddie said. “That will allow us to not just say, ‘Play artist: The Who,’ but say ‘Play The Boss’ and find all Bruce Springsteen songs, or be able to say, ‘more like this,’ and it will go into your song list.”

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Nuance will show the application first on the Symbian Series 60 smartphone platform, but that will just be a demo. Peddie said that the application will start shipping on a “handset refresh” of a smartphone by a large manufacturer (as yet unnamed) this summer. Nuance might also offer the application as a download through online stores, but it hasn’t made a final decision on the matter.

Gracenote’s CDDB music database, which is used by iTunes and other music players to get song information, is huge. But Gracenote has a version that fits on devices with relatively little memory, and the database can be updated over the air to add information to an individual phone.

Best known for the PC dictation software Dragon Naturally Speaking, Nuance will also be fighting industry leader VoiceSignal in the phone voice-command and text-message dictation market. Nuance will start integrating Dragon’s speech technology into a phone in the U.K. this summer, and may come to the U.S. this fall, Peddie said.

Of course, iTunes ( www.itunes.com ) has become famous as the home of the 99-cent download, which sounds like a fast-food slogan. But still, the question is, why buy when you can subscribe?

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Online subscription services give you instant access to their libraries of several lifetimes’ worth of songs—all for about ten bucks a month.

Rhapsody To Go, Napster, and the new MTV service called Urge all claim to have more than two million songs in the bank. Yahoo! currently offers two services, the venerable Musicmatch and Yahoo! Music Unlimited, each with about a million songs. Right now, Yahoo! plans to combine the two services into one “best of breed” media player later this year, and current customers will be able to update seamlessly.

All of the services are essentially different flavors of the same business model. You can listen to the same songs over and over again, creating playlists and libraries, even downloading the songs to your computer. Pay a bit more and you can even transfer songs to a Microsoft PlaysForSure-compatible MP3 player (although the songs expire after about a month). None of the services currently work with the iPod, which is compatible only with iTunes downloads.

One variation on this business model, however, is eMusic, which has a hybrid subscription plan: The site charges a monthly fee for a certain number of downloads (for example, $9.99 for 40 downloads, or about 25 cents per song). The songs are downloaded in DRM-free MP3 format, so they’re yours to do with as you wish.

Long Awaited CD Release By TennesseeLarue | Artistic Pursuit

THE LONG AWAITED CDRELEASE BY TENNESSEE LARUE IS HERE! DUE OUT

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:12:50 GMT
Gary Valenciano - Relevance - Brand New CD release
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