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Wes Phillips
Another Portent of the Apocalypse?
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 06, 2007  |  2 comments
The end times must be nigh: Sony, the company that wouldn't even admit MP3 existed, now makes an iPod docking station.
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Before Sheena Was a Punk Rocker
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 06, 2007  |  0 comments
She was queen of the jungle.
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Gods of New York
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 05, 2007  |  0 comments
Ada Calhoun writes about the summer she swanned around New York under the influence of Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
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The Real Underground
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 05, 2007  |  0 comments
Regular readers of this here blog may wonder why I've linked so many times to maps of the London Underground. I've always loved the clean design of Harry Beck's 1933 map because it looks so much like a circuit diagram and conveys complex three-dimensional information so clearly in 2D.
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Learn Guitar the E-Z Way
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 05, 2007  |  0 comments
Leon Bambrick's guitar tutorial eliminates all the boring parts. You don't even learn to tune until lesson five—and then it goes like this:
"Buy a tuner and ask your girlfriend to learn how to use it. If you can't afford either of these then ask either a roadie or the band playing after you to tune the guitar for you."
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Hearts On Our Sleeves
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 05, 2007  |  3 comments
Sean O'Hagan makes some mix tapes and laments the lost art of the sleeve note.
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If you ran a major record label, what would be your next move?
Stereophile  |  Feb 04, 2007  |  0 comments

CD sales are sliding, and the download market is still up for grabs. If you ran a major record label, what would be your next move?

If you ran a major record label, what would be your next move?
Here's what I'd do
75% (39 votes)
I'd give up
25% (13 votes)
Total votes: 52
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News
White Plains Teen Sues Record Companies for Collusion
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 04, 2007  |  0 comments
We reported in 2005 on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) lawsuit against Patricia Santangelo and her suit in response to the trade group's allegations that she had participated in peer-to-peer file sharing. The record companies dropped their legal actions against Ms. Santangelo in December 2006, instead deciding to charge two of her children, Robert (16) and Michelle (20), with downloading songs from Kazaa.
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CEA: "Supporting Fair Use Means Better Business"
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 04, 2007  |  0 comments
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has issued a position paper on consumer recording rights, which it expects to be a "key issue in 2007." The CEA's position, in brief: "We urge Congress to refrain from limiting fair use and encourage market-based solutions to home recording and digital rights management issues."
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Music in the Round
Music in the Round #22
Kalman Rubinson  |  Feb 03, 2007  |  First Published: Jan 03, 2007  |  0 comments
California company Now Hear This (NHT), which has been around since 1986, has always taken a no-nonsense route based on good engineering principles and innovative thinking. Two of their strikingly good ideas were the use of side-firing woofers, and integrating an active subwoofer with a pair of small monitor speakers. Both philosophies culminated in the Xd series of DSP-EQ'd active loudspeakers, which I had the pleasure of reviewing in the November 2005 issue. My first reaction to the concept was "Why hasn't anyone done this before?" The results completely justified an approach that, I believe, points loudspeaker design in a new direction.
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