The vinyl album is getting its groove back – AZCentral.com

NEW YORK – Don’t bury the album just yet. Yes, it’s struggling, with album sales down by half since the historical high it set in 2000 – sales dropped another 8.5 percent in 2009 to 489.8 million, even as overall music sales climbed 2.1 percent

Google’s Music Strategy: Past, Present and Future – Wired News
Google may have lost to Apple in its bid to acquire Lala, a music service that grabs users’ digital music collections and hosts them in the cloud, allowing them to add to those collections for a mere 10 cents per song . But it would be nuts to

Tim Cornwell: Ditch the discs, embrace MP3s, save the planet – Scotsman
Your account has been frozen . For your available options click the below button. COMPACT DISCS, it is now claimed, are an environmental menace only marginally less damaging than plastic bags, but the UK independent record label Aardvark Records is

646 mp3s by acts playing SXSW – Drowned In Sound
i’m not going to SXSW again this year (isn’t really worth the £1500-2k it costs to get there, stay, eat drink and buy a pass, only to queue outside the acts i actually wanna see and see 30 crap acts for every half-decent one playing a half-arsed set

How to Achieve Deep Meditation More Easily With Binaural Beats MP3s – PRLog (free press release)
PR Log (Press Release) – Feb 23, 2010 – Do you know how to meditate effectively? Meditating can have a wide range of health and emotional benefits, but if not done properly, it will not be as rewarding as it should be. Binaural beats mp3s can

Nielsen: Games Account for 5 Percent of U.S. Entertainment Budgets – Kotaku.com
Across all U.S. households, video games account for 4.9 percent of monthly entertainment spending – to 2.8 percent for CDs and mp3s – according to recent Nielsen research. Among households that are active game buyers, the figure is 9.3 percent. It’s

Loop-group Troupe lassoes lingo – Variety
He sent us the lines written out as well as phonetic MP3s.” Lines and MP3s in mind, the team assembled on a stage with a handful of professional loopers, who specialize in voice performances, and some of “the Troupe,” the performers who had worked on