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Following the highly successful release of three Beatles outtakes sets a few years back, Capitol Records announced last week that another set of unreleased recordings, this time from former Beatle John Lennon, will hit stores November 3. The four-disc set will include over 100 home recordings, studio outtakes, and other works never released in public. Titled The John Lennon Anthology, the set was put together with help from Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, and their son Sean Lennon. Also included will be 60 pages of notes, including art, writings, and photos.
The owners of Spanish website Puretunes.com are the latest to feel the wrath of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in its campaign to rid the world of unauthorized music. The site's parent company, Sakfield Holding, will defend itself against a lawsuit filed July 3 in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The accusation: providing illegal downloads.
The site went live in May, offering what the RIAA claims are "unlimited" downloads of copyrighted recordings. A loophole in Spanish intellectual property law allowed it to do so, according to reports in early…
Judging from the e-mail Wes Phillips has received since announcing Classic Records' 24-bit/96kHz "DADs" (DVD-Videos utilizing the two channels of 24/96 written into the video standard), audiophiles appear to be intensely curious about the new music format.
Classic Records, in conjunction with various hardware manufacturers, is taking their new offerings to the people---they are scheduling demonstrations with audiophile societies and hi-fi stores "throughout the world" (their words).
If you would like to attend a demonstration, or are affiliated with an organization interested in…
Will the official online music gates finally stream open and flood us with non-pirated tunes? Perhaps. One important step in the process has finally been taken. The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), the Harry Fox Agency (HFA), and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced last week that they have come to a "breakthrough" agreement on the licensing of musical works for new subscription services on the Internet.
The groups were in a deadlock for months, trying to negotiate the online publishing rights for streaming music. The NMPA's Edward P. Murphy…
HE 2002's first day was filled with press conferences, but none was more widely anticipated than Sony's. The pre-conference chatter was filled with insiders insisting they positively knew for a fact that Sony was confirming last week's rumor that Universal and Sony were discontinuing CD manufacture in favor of dual-layer SACDs—and also by insiders who insisted it was simply a rumor.
However, when David Migdal, David Kawakami, and Tim Baxter spoke, they did not even mention it (although all three did stress SACD's imperviousness to ordinary ripping—which led some observers to speculate…
Last week's Vote! question about vibration control garnered one of the most interesting groups of comments from readers so far. Everything from bicycle tires to bubble wrap is being employed in audiophile homes around the world in an attempt to subdue the dreaded curse of the shakes.
Many readers asked for further advice, so we dug up a seminal treatise on the subject, "Bad Vibes", written by Shannon Dickson back in the November 1995 Stereophile. Shannon outlines the fundamentals of vibration control in audio systems and dispels many of the common myths rampant among hobbyists.
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As of October, Meridian America's new VP/Sales, replacing the late Ross Keim, was industry veteran Andy Regan, who started his high-end career at Manhattan retailer Sound by Singer. Most recently, Regan was VP/Sales at cable manufacturer AudioQuest. Not uncoincidentally, Joe Abrams has moved from cable manufacturer MIT to AudioQuest.
NHT founders Ken Kantor and Chris Byrne are scheduled to depart from their company at year's end. Loudspeaker company NHT was purchased in 1996 by Recoton as part of its acquisition of International Jensen. Recoton Home Audio Group's Hank Suerth told the…
Memorial Day is the traditional beginning of summer. This year, it will mark a new chapter for Klipsch Audio Technologies.
On February 13, the Indianapolis-based manufacturer announced that it would discontinue its relationships with retailer chain the Tweeter Home Entertainment Group and its subsidiaries. Klipsch will instead begin selling a limited line of its Synergy Series loudspeakers (excluding custom installation and outdoor models) at Best Buy stores across the US beginning on Memorial Day. Best Buy, headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN, is North America's number one consumer…
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has responded to an ongoing copyright infringement suit being pursued in a US District Court by the music industry against Verizon Communications, Inc.
The case pits the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against the telecommunications giant and pivots around a judicial order requiring Verizon to divulge the identity of one of its DSL subscribers, claimed by the plaintiffs to be an egregious offender of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The subscriber purportedly downloads and makes available hundreds of music recordings…
They may sing about death and destruction, releasing albums with titles such as 1983's Kill 'em All, but underneath the menacing exteriors, Metallica is really just a group of sensitive artists.
Or so it would seem. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich explains, "With each project, we go through a grueling creative process to achieve music that we feel is representative of Metallica at that very moment in our lives. We take our craft—whether it be the music, the lyrics, or the photos and artwork—very seriously, as do most artists. It is therefore sickening to know that our art is being traded…