Results tagged “mp3”

Each year in March, the SXSW Music conference unfolds down in Austin, Texas. Lots of up-and-coming bands play at the many venues that line 6th Street. It's a good time. But if you can't be there, the next best thing... Read More >>

John Atkinson, the longtime editor of Stereophile magazine, wrote an interesting piece comparing MP3 vs AAC vs FLAC vs CD. John is known for providing spectral analysis to the equipment that gets reviewed in the pages of the magazine, which... Read More >>

Sony BMG has announced that they're jumping into the DRM-free music scene. They're going to start selling MP3 downloads of their music. Well, sort of. Okay, here are the problems, and there are several. First, it's not a download store... Read More >>

There's a special class of music reserved for the truly adventurous. It's the 10-minute song. Most bands never attempt long songs, and of those that do, only a select few can really pull it off. But for those that do,... Read More >>

I recently linked to the awesome Palms Out Sounds for their extravaganza of Daft Punk samples. Two weeks later and they have another winner on Sample Wednesday. This week's take is Sample Wednesday #29: Basement Jaxx. They've posted 13 tracks... Read More >>

If I haven't already got this across, eMusic is quite awesome. So go check them out, now! I've been up to my ears in great new music from them. They have, exclusively, the new Bloc Party album called A... Read More >>

I went to the SXSW conference a few years ago in Austin, Texas, and had a great time. South By Southwest is actually three conferences — there's film, there's interactive (tech), and there's the granddaddy music conference. It all... Read More >>

This one is for the Daft Punk fans out there. Well, okay, this is a bunch of free music so it's for all the music fans out there, but it has special connotations for the Daft Punkers. Daft Punk, as... Read More >>

Mike G of Iowa Liberal alerts us to the existence of an audio recording of Noam Chomsky's lecture last week at the Englert Theatre here in Iowa City. We've added some metadata and made the MP3 iPod friendly. The... Read More >>

Last year, I wrote about how SXSW Music had released a couple of torrents with over 750 MP3s of new music by bands appearing at the SXSW Music conference. SXSW 2006 wrapped up a few days ago, and in case... Read More >>

Photo by Julie Strom Hendrickson Christmas is coming, snow coats northeast Iowa, and I am listening to Christmas music. Last year, Jeff Mitchell wrote and recorded two Christmas songs for me. For my annual compilation of Christmas music, he... Read More >>

“This music has everything in the world going against it. It's completely artificial, it's a scam, it's ... you know, I could probably list fifteen different reasons why it shouldn't work. But, for some reason, something comes through all... Read More >>