So lets say you are a principaled music fan, you only buy legal music online and the whole Digital Rights Management thing never really bothered you. You bought a ton of music from Microsoft, they are the biggest guys in town so you know you are risk free right? Right. Microsoft is about to turn [...]

At a birthday dinner for a friend last night I was told I was neglecting my duties here by not posting up some things I thought had already received wide internet play. Normally if things are turning up on a bunch of sites I skip posting it, but I was reminded that that are some [...]

Buying music online used to be easy. Either you bought from Itunes, who had the biggest catalog or EMusic who were the only major selling mp3s. The frontier is changing now and I thought I would put up some thoughts and tips for shopping online for music. For the purposes of this I will be [...]

This article by Paul Ford is great. He reviews every single song from the SXSW torrent* in exactly six words for each song and provides a link to each one on the side of the review, you can’t ask for more, the man is a god. I love the reviews, Like a dog fucking a [...]

To those who come here searching for “the rise & fall of ruby woo” torrents. You can sample most of the music on the album at their website and mySpace page. I understand wanting to listen to an artist before you buy and support that, but if you are just looking to steal their music [...]

The Puppini Sisters sound is a deliberate throwback to the Andrews Sisters and they are very good at capturing the style. I picked up both their albums, Betcha Bottom Dollar and their newest album, The Rise and Fall of Ruby Woo and while I like both I think the second album is better on a [...]

Robert Scoble pointed out a brilliant source for listening to some great samples of bands performing at this year’s South By South West Festival in Austin, Texas from March 12 - 18 of 2008. Someone has grabbed all the samples from the music pages and loaded them into a torrent file. I had to download [...]

Batman TV Show Theme performed by the Jam. This rocks.

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I have been really pleased with Amazon’s music download sales, they give you very high quality MP3 files with no restrictions on what you can do with the files built into the files. Their selection is good, they have just added Warner Brothers to the line up and while they don’t have all the small [...]

2007 was a very good year for music for me with a wide variety of artists putting out albums I really like. One of these was killed on the radio but I don’t listen to the radio so I still enjoy it. Most of these are fairly obscure and only a couple mark me as [...]