Where vinyl records are born - CNET News

No trip to the South would be complete without a visit to Nashville, Tenn. With that in mind, CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman stopped in Music City during Road Trip 2008 with an eye toward finding noteworthy music-related sites. One stop was

The Tuesday DiScussion: DiScuss DiS! - Drowned In Sound
It’s as-it-says-on-the-tin simple: this week, we want you to DiScuss us . We want your opinions on areas of the site that could be modified, or tweaked, or completely overhauled. We want to know what draws you to the site – perhaps a couple of

First Build - Need Opinions and Recommendations - Toms Hardware
This computer is used primarily for schoolwork, mp3s, and internet surfing. I play the occasional Command and Conquer 3 and Company of Heroes but am not a hardcore gamer. I would like to keep it below $1200 but also want to build a decent system that

New generation of music fans giving vinyl a spin - Athens Banner-Herald
It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain. This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.’s latest release “Accelerate” inadvertently entered the “LP” code instead. Soon boxes of the big, vinyl discs

Week in Review: Things That Wall-E Will Probably Have to Clean Up in - Nymag.com
This weekend, Wall-E will offend fat people by supplanting Monsters, Inc. as Pixar’s best-ever movie and officially kicking off 2008’s Oscar race . But in 2708, long after the Jonaspocalypse has left Earth a barren wasteland unable to sustain life

Digital Noise: Music & Tech - CNET News
A couple weeks ago, I pondered if early adopters of the iPod and other MP3 players were starting to lose patience with the random shuffle function. Too much black and white, not enough gray. Almost on cue, start-up Instinctiv came out on Thursday

Hear & Now MP3s: Earth - San Francisco Gate
Between the 2002 release of her self-titled debut CD and the arrival of her fourth solo recording last September, Pieta Brown made all the advances necessary to make her a more intriguing songwriter without sacrificing any of the qualities that made

Cool Tools Friday - Pandora and The Hype Machine - ZDNet Blogs
Music lovers, lend me your ears. I’ve discovered what I personally consider the ultimate social music experience. Pandora + The Hype Machine = aural bliss. As a music fanatic with a very broad range of genre taste, any online tool that helps

June 2008 - NPR News
Some of you might remember the post last week suggesting that we momentarily view the current presidential election via a musical lens. After all, as connoisseurs of music, we are often judging–or at least discussing–the best albums, shows, or

MP3 Downloads of Worship Songs Now Available on OCP.org - ChristianNewsWire
PORTLAND, Oregon, June 27 / Christian Newswire / — Customers looking to purchase their favorite songs from OCP artists now have a new option. OCP’s recently redesigned Web site, OCP.org, now offers full-length, high-quality (256 kbps), DRM-free MP3s