Category Archives: music

Lead Belly, That Guy Could Sing Some Great Blues

August 18, 2007 – 11:13 pm

When I first started playing the guitar I became obsessed with the blues. One reason was that as an aspiring guitar player I wanted to emulate the greats blues guitar players. I also starting to get bored with the music on top-40 radio stations. I wanted something interesting and blues fit that want perfectly. Then [...]

 
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The New DRM Class-System

May 12, 2007 – 5:55 am

Originally it looked like Apple and EMI would get rid of DRM altogehter, but now the facts are out. You can get DRM free tracks for $1.29 or DRM-laden tracks for $0.99. So, what does this mean? It means you have to pay $0.30 per track to purchase back some of your rights as [...]

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Monkey Vs Robot

April 9, 2007 – 9:43 am

James Kochalka wrote a pretty amazing song, called Monkey Vs Robot (on an album of the same name) what followed was an equally amazing video. For some reason I just remembered it existed, so I am posting it here for you now.

There are also a few graphic novels by Kochalka that document the epic [...]

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DRM Free Music from iTunes

April 2, 2007 – 9:19 am

It happened! EMI is releasing DRM free music on iTunes and the files will have twice the bitrate. Could this be the beginning of the end of DRM? It seems like this might signal that business is hearing the market. Apple tends to be on the edge of reading the market trends though, so [...]

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