Archive for the 'News' Category

New Dresden Dolls Available Now

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

The Dresden Dolls released their new album, “Yes Virginia” here in the US yesterday. It’s super good. But don’t take my word for it… head on over to their MySpace and stream the whole darned thing. You can also download the track Dirty Business from their website.
The full album is now available for download via […]

The New iPod Hi-Fi

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Apple introduced the new iPod Hi-Fi today, and it looks pretty cool (if a bit out of my price range).
It comes with a remote, you can plug other audio devices in to it (both analog and digital), it’s portable using common D-cell batteries, and of course it integrates with any dockable iPod seamlessly (using the […]

Morrissey Quizzed By FBI

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Morrisey, former front man of The Smiths (do I even need to point that out?) claims to have been questioned by the FBI and Special branch.

“They were trying to determine if I was a threat to the government, and similarly in England. But it didn’t take them very long to realize that I’m not.”

I’m not […]

RIAA Shenanigans: Riping Your Music is “Illegal”

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

The EFF has a great article up about some recent statements by RIAA during the on-going DMCA rule-making proceedings.
It seems the RIAA doesn’t have a very good memory, or at least are hoping that no one else does. Although they actually said that ripping CDs was legal during the ill-fated Grokster case, their new statements […]

GarageBand is Broken

Monday, February 6th, 2006

I can’t believe this. I spent around 3 hours making a nice little podcast for you, but when i would go to export it out of GarageBand, it wouldn’t work. Now here’s the kicker… It would go through all the motions, but the file just would not be there when it was all done (and […]

CBS on iTunes

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Turns out CBS has changed their minds…

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