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#itunes

Shock: When You Raise iTunes Prices, People Buy Less Stuff

02/09/10

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#vinyl

Record Your Own Records With Gakken's Gramophone Kit

Sure, anybody with ears can agree that something is lost when records are compressed and converted to digital files. But if you really want to walk the walk you can't just listen to vinyl, you have to record your own. More »

02/06/10

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By Kyle VanHemert

#audio

How Records Are Made

The machines that make vinyl records today are the same hulking, steaming shapers of goop that were doing it 40 years ago. Very cool. [MAKE]

02/05/10

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By Mark Wilson

#instruments

Gigantic Music Box Is Finally Finished With Nowhere To Go

Henry Dagg spent four years building this gigantic pin barrel harp, commissioned for a London garden. It's finally finished but is too fragile for the outdoors. Listen to it play "A Long and Winding Road" and reflect on its fate. More »

01/30/10

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By Kyle VanHemert

#music

A Virtual Jam Session

We've heard songs which were gradually put together by people around the world before, but this particular one is the result of a "virtual jam session." And it's simply beautiful.

01/29/10

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By Rosa Golijan

#apple

Apple iPad: Books, Magazines, Movies and Music

We said it long ago: The Apple iPad will redefine newspapers, textbooks, magazines. Were we right? Is Apple bringing a media revolution? Oh, it'll get there. More »

01/27/10

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By Rosa Golijan

#imagecache

Even On a Tablet, iTunes Can't Compete with Red Vinyl

This candy apple Sophie Madeleine limited edition LP is just oozing with style that no one can digitize. [Sophie Madeleine via boingboing]

01/26/10

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By Mark Wilson

#imagecache

That Rapscallion von Poppel Is At It Again!

Neither Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium nor the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus holds any sight quite as bizarre as Arthur von Poppel's Nautilus One Man Band Submarine. [Nautilus One Man Band via Dark Roasted Blend]

01/25/10

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By Kyle VanHemert

#fileformats

New Digital Music Format, MusicDNA, Bundles Extra Content With The File

Fighting back against the downloaders, a new music file format by the name of MusicDNA has been introduced by the people who created the MP3, which will bundle a heap of bonus content with the music file. More »

01/25/10

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By Kat Hannaford

#clips

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Living In a Gangsta's Engineering Paradise

"You may be thinking that you're more gangsta than me, but you motherboarders have never seen my PC." That, and more brilliance, from IBM Fellow John Cohn's music video, Engineering Paradise. [@IBMResearch]

01/22/10

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By Mark Wilson

#timewasters

Two YouTube Videos and a Motherf***ing Crossfader, Dot Com

I could never capture the essence of this incredible timewaster better than its URL already has. I will add that it also features a "party" button, which you will click, and sparkly fonts, which you will enjoy. [2YTVaaMFCF.com, thanks Max!]

01/21/10

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By Dan Nosowitz

#music

Open Letter From OK Go, Regarding Non-Embeddable YouTube Videos

In response to fan uproar over being unable to embed OK Go's YouTube videos, lead singer Damian Kulash wrote the following letter. It's an eye-opening—and discouraging—inside account of how poorly the major labels manage the music you love. More »

01/20/10

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By OK Go

#iphoneapps

Voice Band iPhone App Converts "Bah Ba Ba Bah" Into ♫ ♫ ♫

Humming, mouth-strumming, BAH-ing—whatever you call it, it's not singing. But no matter! iPhone app Voice Band cuts even the laziest vocal utterances into multilayer, multi-instrumental songs. $3. [Gizmag]

01/20/10

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By John Herrman

#rumor

No iTunes Subscriptions from the Ashes of LaLa, Just Streaming Your Library from the Cloud

Apple isn't going to use LaLa to launch a subscription service, a "variety of insider sources" have told the founder of MP3.com. It's exactly what we speculated: Storing your iTunes library in the cloud and access it from anywhere. More »

01/19/10

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By matt buchanan

#appletablet

Music Labels Briefed On Apple Tablet Only As a "Courtesy"

According to All Things D, we shouldn't expect the music industry to play a major—or minor—part in Apple's presumed tablet announcement next week. That's not as surprising as it may sound. More »

01/19/10

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By Brian Barrett

#hacks

DIY Lady Gaga Glasses Make You Look as Ridiculous (and Blind) as She

At least with those Kanye West Venetian blind glasses, you could kinda see. These things are just two screens on your face, blocking your entire field of vision. Get ready to run into walls, just like Lady Gaga probably does. More »

01/19/10

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By Dan Nosowitz

#guitars

Strings? Where We're Going We Don't Need Strings

Strings? Nope. Frets? Not really. The Misa Digital Guitar, an open source, Linux-powered MIDI controller, brings shredding to the 21st century by dumping traditional guitar strings for buttons and a futuristic touch screen. More »

01/18/10

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By Kyle VanHemert

#architecture

Hey, That's Not How You Build a Log Cabin

Your ordinary log cabin is laid out with lengthwise logs stacked to make its outer walls. Piet Hein Eek, charged with building a cozy recording studio for friend and musician Hans Liberg, did not make any ordinary log cabin. More »

01/16/10

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By Kyle VanHemert

#diy

How Could This Do It Yourself Light Suit Not Improve Your Weekend?

This may not necessarily be the most practical DIY, but if you're looking at that picture—I mean really looking—and you're not thinking "I want to go to there," well, I just don't know what to tell you. More »

01/16/10

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By Kyle VanHemert

#music

PolyTune Tunes All Your Guitar Strings at Once, Saves Time for Serenading

This idea blows my mind: An electric guitar tuner that analyzes a full strum all at once, telling you which individual strings need tuning. Brilliant! More »

01/14/10

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By Dan Nosowitz

#music

A Beautiful Song Built Around Nokia's Classic Tone

There was a time when a Nokia phone was all I wanted. Those days are gone. This haunting piano composition, based on their hallmark ringtone, written by classicalist Marc-André Hamelin, reminds me of times when Nokia was state-of-the-art. More »

01/12/10

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By Brian Lam

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