I hereby present to you the third & final installment of what is quite possibly my longest blog ever. I tried to include some fun visuals throughout the post to keep you all entertained, so I really hope you enjoy the hard work I’ve put into all of this. I’m […]
The generous dudes of Wilco are giving away full recordings of two shows they played last year for free download on their website (h/t Pitchfork). In return, they’re encouraging (though not requiring) fans to donate $15 or more for Haiti relief to either Oxfam or Doctors Without Borders. One of […]
They asked you gave: The all-star Hope for Haiti Now telethon that aired last Friday night has raised more than $61 million in charitable donations, according to a press release sent out yesterday. The benefit album collecting all the telethon performances from Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Bono […]
Though she took a beating by the judges for her “catatonic” rendition of a foxtrot, Kate Gosselin may have single-handedly kept the viewers coming back to Dancing with the Stars. But the tabloids won’t have the mother of eight to knock around anymore (at least, not until her next TLC […]
Rock roll fans who love ‘60s music probably put away the Beatles vinyl they located back then and held onto it, even when CDs became the rage. The quartet from England sold many record albums in the States, as well as all over the world, and not only was their […]
The digital revolution killed off the CD. When CDs were introduced, they killed off the cassette player. But did the cassette player ever destroy the profuse sounds of vinyl LPs? The statistics will show that records may have declined in usage, but the popularity of records is still alive today. […]
The past years have seen significant redevelopment in interest for vinyl records where they once were almost dead. New artists are even requesting that their albums be printed on vinyl to meet this new market desire and since many people say that the vinyl sounds better than their digital counterparts. […]
Is there a box of vintage vinyl records sitting in your garage? Maybe someone gave you some of their old albums. Before you decide to trash them or drop them off at your community thrift store, you may want to look at what you have. You might be surprised to […]
MP3 pirating and selling have put an enormous hurt on the music industry over the past ten years, and CD sales have declined because of it. Analog sound has become somewhat of a luxury today, and numerous people say it sounds a lot better than digital counterparts. Even the latest […]
The CD, or Compact Disc, made it feasible to store more information than the past storage media, the cassette, and the floppy. Originally invented in the early 90s, CDs were designed to replace floppy drives and cassettes, and over a 10-year period, they not only replaced floppies and cassettes but […]