H.R. 2517, otherwise known as the "Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003," was introduced last month by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) to enable the Federal Bureau of Investigation to deter all "unauthorized" home recording by consumers when obtained from the Internet.
The bill states that the director of the FBI shall "…
Those days may be long gone for most home-audio electronics, but if the latest car-audio product from Matsushita Electric Industrial is any indication, there may be hope for the hopelessly nostalgic when it comes to their mobile sound…
The service went nationwide—covering the continental US—on July 1, following a ten-year development period and a few months of availability in some areas. Earlier this year, between April 1 and June 1, Sirius added 37 states to its coverage area. By July it had added the remaining ones, mostly in the West and Northeast. Sirius claims that its signals can be received clearly not only throughout the states but "hundreds of miles off the coast."
Featuring 60 channels of commercial-free music and 40 channels of news, sports, talk, and…
The tapes, from Hendrix's Band of Gypsys period, were acquired at international auction; terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. As a museum "dedicated to the creative process in American popular music," Experience Music Project will preserve and protect the recordings, and give museum visitors the opportunity to learn about and experience them for…
According to Zoran, the Vaddis V will combine DVD-Video playback, DVD-Audio decoding, and web browsing. As Zoran's fifth-generation DVD system-on-a-chip, the Vaddis V, the company claims, has…
Then came the cell phone and business was booming again. But cell phone legislation, banning driver use in moving vehicles, threatens to put an end to the good times.
On the horizon, however, are multichannel audio systems, along with an array of disorienting surround-sound music discs. At the recent AES convention, I briefly sat through…
Orientalism always exercised a tremendous pull on the British imagination, and here are nearly three hours of settings—as lush and suggestive as an Alma-Tadema nude—for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, of verses by a medieval Persian poet.…
Hands down, Little Things Run the World stands as bassist-composer Ben Allison's most adventurous CD, and is in the top echelon of 2008's jazz albums. It's lyrical, colorful, edgy, and teems with exuberance. Conceived with careful…
They're calling this the worst economic period since the Great Depression. Fifteen years ago Bob Dylan channeled the Mississippi Sheiks, popular among Great Depression audiences because, as he observes, "their songs are faultlessly made for these modern times." And so they are: Songs of hypocrisy, lust, and economic and political turmoil. Songs blaming the other guy. Songs, written decades ago, that show that, as a species, we haven't changed much.…