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STLJN Jazz Site of the Week: Night Lights
The StLJN jazz site of the week is Night Lights, the online companion to a radio program of the same name that airs Saturday evenings on WFIU (103.7 FM), a public radio station affiliated with Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The program's host David Brent Johnson uses the Night Lights Web site to provide ...
Judge Buys 'P2P Equals Web Radio' Argument
Raise your hand if you think downloading music from file-sharing service Kazaa is just like listening an Internet radio station? No? Anyone? One person who bought that argument is U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez, who lowered the fines imposed on a 16-year-old accused of downloading illegal files from $750 per song to $200 per song after ...
Napster Posts Larger Loss Than Expected
SEATTLE, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Napster Inc posted a bigger quarterly loss on Monday as the number of its paid subscribers declined, and the online music service predicted revenue to be mostly flat in the current quarter. Napster's fiscal first-quarter net loss grew to $4.38 million, or 10 cents a share, compared with $4.24 million, or ...
Recording Miles Davis' Sound
Let me just state off the bat that Miles' music, from Bitches Brew on, is my favorite music on this planet I'm going to structure this writeup around the albums which have been released from what I believe to be Miles' most exciting and fertile years (1969 through 1975) : classics like Bitches Brew, A Tribute ...
Peter Gabriel: An Old Rocker Gets Digital
WHEN Charles Grimsdale, a British investor, started the Internet music venture OD2 in 1999, he had a hard time persuading large record companies to license their music. But when he approached the rock musician Peter Gabriel about putting his music catalog online, he got a very different response: Mr. Gabriel was not only willing, he also ...
Apple Reviews Netshare; Permanent Ban Likely
Nullriver's short-lived iPhone application NetShare, which turns your iPhone into a wireless modem for your laptop, might not be returning to the App Store after all. Earlier in the week, Nullriver received a response from Apple saying the removal of NetShare was a mistake that required “technical review." It turns out that was a blanket term, ...
Recording Class A Tube Mic Preamps
Dan Alexander Audio Mic Preamp Dan Alexander, a musician and recording engineer in San Francisco, has been a dealer of vintage pro audio gear for at least 20 years, and, in the early 1980s, sold me my first pair of Neumann M 50s and all my Schoeps 221Bs. I was thus quite curious when I heard ...
Can Blu-Ray Save Blockbuster?
Blockbuster thinks (or hopes) Blu-ray is breathing some life into the movie disc. The DVD may have less than a decade before it goes the way of VHS. Until then, the ailing rental chain says it saw “consistent growth" in sales of Blu-ray devices in what was an otherwise lackluster quarter. “We're selling as many as ...
Recording Vocals (The Microphone)
The elusive “magic" vocal track is an age-old drama in the recording world and no matter how good technology is getting, recording vocals is still an art form in and of itself. There are several factors involved. In Part One of this series we talked about the “Room." In Part Two we will discuss the “Vocal ...
Survey: Public Divided on in-Flight Cell Use
CELL PHONE HELL 4 Out Of 10 Say Yes To Phones WASHINGTON -- A new survey suggests nearly half of U.S. residents would oppose allowing cell phone use aboard flights even if there were no issues with the phones interfering with aircraft communications systems. According to the Department of Transportation survey, about four out of 10 ...
