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Social Music Store immergent.com Launches in Beta
Billed as “a digital music environment powered by social networking technologies" New online music store Immergent.com used this week's NARM Convention in Chicago to launch its public beta. Immergent's offering includes: M songs from all four major and 80,000+ independent record labels Social networking: Chat functionality enables fans and artists to connect via ...
MySpace Bests Facebook with New Privacy Push
Facebook users have been threatening a mass defection in recent weeks over privacy concerns. Yesterday MySpace jumped ahead of its bigger competitor with a public promise to simplify and improve its own privacy features. “We believe users want a simpler way to control their privacy," wrote Mike Jones, Co-President of MySpace. on the company's blog. “That's ...
Interview: Greg Kot of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music (Part 4)
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor-- (@kbylin) -- Part 1 & Part 2 & Part 3 Cultural critic Douglas Rushkoff has made the point that, “What [people are] missing from a cultural perspective is just because we're not willing to pay for professional journalists doesn't mean that corporations have become unwilling to pay for professional public ...
Eight Hellacious Background Vocal Mistakes
Stacked harmony vocals and extensive background voices are being heard and dug on again! Some of the best examples are on tracks by redhot indie bands such as the Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear. These bold bands are not merely pulling the nostalgic card, but rather making cutting- edge music by blending tried-and-true techniques with elements ...
Sheet Music Apps for Your Phone
Thursday's Phone Smart column, on music-related apps, does not touch on sheet-music software for mobile devices, but here are two new services worth mentioning. The “Ultimate Guitar Tabs" app ($3 for iPhone and iPad), gives you free tablature for tens of thousands of songs from Ultimate-Guitar.com, in a player-friendly scrolling format. The big drawback is that ...
Three Miking Options for Grand Pianos
Grand pianos may seem like formidable beasts to record, but they're actually as tame as any other instrument. Depending on the sound you're going after--in your face, bright, ambient, warm, and so on--success is typically measured by critical listening, mic selection, mic placement, and the artistry and dynamic sensitivity of the performer. Here are some starting ...
One Day Your Pants May Power up Your iPod
UC Berkeley researchers are perfecting microscopic fibers that can make electricity from simple body motions. The nanofibers may soon be woven into clothing, creating the ultimate portable generator. Need juice for a dying iPod? You may soon be able to plug the gadget into a shirt, dance the electric slide and be good to go. Researchers ...
Visa Seeks to Extend Retail Dominance with Pay-with-iPhone Service
E-Wallet: A battle is heating up over the right to process payments when you wave your cellphone over a sensor to buy goods at a local merchant. Visa made waves this week by announcing a collaboration with DeviceFidelity, which makes an iPhone case called In2Pay with a near- field communications microSD card embedded in it that ...
Germany Asks Google to Surrender Private Data
Google came under increased pressure in Europe on Tuesday over its collection of private data from unsecured home wireless networks, as a German regulator threatened legal action if the company did not surrender a hard drive for inspection. The German demand underscored the seriousness of the quandary Google now faced following its admission last Friday that ...
How to Transfer Your Stanza E-Book Library to iBooks for iPad
Stanza, our favorite iPhone e-reader application, has not yet been updated for the iPad. Maybe its coming soon and will be awesome, or maybe the current owner, Amazon, has killed it to reduce competition for its money-making Kindle app. Either way, unless you want to read your e-book collection on a blocky, pixel-doubled screen, you'll have ...
