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Analysis of the Apple press event as the new products are unveiled.
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Apple’s new iPods, Apple TV, and more | iPod & Entertainment | Macworld Podcast | Macworld
It’s time for another edition of the Macworld Podcast! This week we’ve got a four-man roundtable from San Francisco immediately in the aftermath of Apple’s 2010 music event. Join me and my guests, Macworld Senior Editors Chris Breen, Jon Seff, and Dan Frakes, as we discuss new iPods, iTunes 10, and the all-new Apple TV.
From http://www.macworld.com/article/153849/2010/09/mwpodcast207.html?lsrc=twt_jsnell
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Tech Weekly: What next for online music?
On the eve of the latest iPod launch, will the company be able to maintain its influence as artists and publishers increasingly turn from iTunes to streaming services and music apps?
Join Aleks Krotoski, Jemima Kiss and Charles Arthur as they tackle the latest news from the world of technology. On this week’s programme, they look at the evolution of the online music scene. Apple launches its new iPod on Wednesday in the face of the lowest quarter of sales since 2006, and the device appears to be in terminal decline. How will it maintain its influence as artists and publishers increasingly turn from iTunes downloads to streaming services such as Spotify and We7 and music apps?
Charles exposes the problems inherent in the software patent system in light of the lawsuits served up against companies like Google, Facebook and eBay from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing and the team look at the problems and the benefits of open source for local government.
Finally, gamesblogger Keith Stuart speaks with Tim Clark from Firstplay.co.uk about the innovations in marketing and distributing digital content that the games industry has been perfecting in the past few years, and what this could mean for the wider digital media sector.
All this plus a healthy dose of opinion – and outtakes – on Tech Weekly.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/audio/2010/aug/31/1
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FACT mix 177: Solar Bears
This Friday’s FACT mix comes from Dublin-based duo Solar Bears.
Recently signed to Planet Mu, we’ve been listening to this duo’s music non-stop of late – their Inner Sunshine EP, recently released with a remix by Lone, is more than healthy but it’s in their debut album, the forthcoming She Was Coloured In where the real Solar Bears treats lie. Inspired by the likes of Broadcast and Tangerine Dream, it’s an album of gentle synth-pop, swelling ambience and archaic Kosmische and prog that sits nicely next to recent work by Ratatat and Oriol, as well as Boards of Canada and Pivot.
Compiled by the group’s Rian Trench, Solar Bears’ FACT mix features Harmonia ’76, Lone, Kate Bush, Fuck Buttons and more and is sounding pretty perfect to our ears this morning. Watch out for a full FACT interview with the pair in the not-too-distant future.
Tracklist: Twin Sister – Ginger Solar Bears – Kill On George Delerue – Theme de Camille Fuck Buttons – Space Mountain Beaver and Krause – As I Hear It Lone – The Twilight Switch Harmonia ’76 – When Shade was Born Cornelius – Drop Stanley Myers – Cavatina Joy Division – Decades Julee Cruise – The World Spins Kate Bush – Cloudbusting Bibio – Segee and the Indian Paul Giovanni – Willow’s Song
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FACT mix 179: Mogwai
This Friday’s FACT mix is the work of Scottish post-rock legends Mogwai.
Formed in Glasgow in 1995, Mogwai this week released their first live package, taking in a concert recording, Special Moves and a DVD companion, Burning. It marks fourteen years of existence for the band, whose early albums Young Team and Come On Die Young represent some of the most influential music of the era – taking the long-form instrumentals of Louisville’s Slint, and injecting them with a very human, and very British melancholy and sense of humour, looking to their peers Arab Strap as well as the likes of The Cure and Fugazi for inspiration. Later in the decade, Mogwai would work with Andrew Weatherall, Alec Empire, The Manic Street Preachers and more.
The noughties would see Mogwai continue to hone their sound, reaching new peaks with tracks like ‘Glasgow Mega Snake’ and ‘Auto Rock’, while also moving into soundtracking, working with Clint Mansell on Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain and most notably, providing the score for Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, the film study of French football legend Zinedine Zidane.
Mogwai’s FACT mix was made by long-term member Barry Burns, and features The Fall, Fad Gadget, Tuxedomoon and more – you can read an interview with him about the mix and recent Mogwai goings on over the page. Special Moves / Burning is out now.
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Finding Virtue In Vinyl : NPR
Music collector Ian Nagoski has spent years finding the vinyl records of obscure artists and introducing them to a new generation of music fans. Nagoksi, who is featured in this week’s Washington Post Magazine, talks about his passion for found sound. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129381403
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SXSW 2010 Music Panel: CBGB Stories
In the late ’70s, CBGB & OMFUG was the beachhead of American punk. A wide array of artists first gained acclaim at CBGB, including Television, Patti Smith, Talking Heads and Blondie. Some of those artists were on hand to share their memories of the venerable club on the panel "CBGB Stories" at the SXSW 2010 Music Conference. Moderated by David Katznelson of Birdman Recording Group Inc, the speakers included Blondie drummer Clem Burke, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz of the Talking Heads, and Seymour Stein, CEO of Sire Records. Founder and CCO of The Orchard, Richard Gottehrer, was also on the panel via Skype.
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Control Your Image: Women Musicians Seize On Social Media : The Record : NPR
More women than men use social media, according to several studies. And more women musicians seem to be finding it a good way to connect with fans and sell records without having to resort to some of the old marketing cliches.
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Master Tone Podcast #2
Mark Bentley Sandford selects a few songs you should probably be listening to. You may know them, you may not, but they are definite selections from the ears of Master Tone.
All genres … all sorts of sounds … all different eras. Music lovers only please.
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Beg, Steal or Borrow by Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs
Fourth studio album God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise (August 17, RCA) from critically acclaimed troubadour Ray Lamontagne is notable as the New Englander’s first self-produced project and, more significantly, as the official "debut" of his new co-billed band The Pariah Dogs: Jay Bellarose (drums), Jennifer Condos (bass), Patrick Warren (keyboard), Eric Heywood (guitar) and Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar). Recorded at his western Massachusetts home over a two week period, Creek further burnishes LaMontagne’s reputation as both sterling songwriter and compelling performer and, with a solid group of seasoned players behind him, allowing him an even greater opportunity to stretch in each area.
Beg, Steal or Borrow is a single from Ray LaMontagne’s latest album God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise, releasing on Aug 17, 2010.
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