Jessica Duchen Finally Gets Il Trovatore
Any explanation that includes YouTube clips of the Marx Brothers <I>and</I> Maria Callas is jake by me.
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Another Portent of the Apocalypse?
The end times must be nigh: Sony, the company that wouldn't even admit MP3 existed, now makes an iPod docking station.
Before Sheena Was a Punk Rocker
She was queen of the jungle.
Gods of New York
Ada Calhoun writes about the summer she swanned around New York under the influence of Neil Gaiman's <I>Sandman</I>.
The Real Underground
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.
Learn Guitar the E-Z Way
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:
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"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."
Hearts On Our Sleeves
Sean O'Hagan makes some mix tapes and laments the lost art of the sleeve note.
If you ran a major record label, what would be your next move?
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?
White Plains Teen Sues Record Companies for Collusion
We reported in 2005 on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/082205riaa/">lawsuit against Patricia Santangelo</A> 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.
CEA: "Supporting Fair Use Means Better Business"
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has issued a <A HREF="http://www.ce.org/shared_files/edm/2007/PolicyPapers/HomeRecording.pdf"… paper</A> 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."