Online music store

The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed - new album cover and track listing

Well, here it is people, the album artwork for the new The Streets album, Everything Is Borrowed. It’s due to be in an online store near you on 15th September. The lead single from Everything Is Borrowed is The Escapist, which is currently available as a free download from their official site. The second single [...]

Online Music Discovery in Action

An anecdote from my weekend. First, a cut to the moral: Online music discovery is largely about architecture within and across sites, personal connections and serendipity. Focus exclusively on algorithms and radio streams at your peril. Between about 1988 and 1992 I worked at a record store. My boss there was a cool local musician friend [...]

Tuesday's new music: U2, The Walkmen and Neil Halstead

It's Tuesday which means today's the day for new CD releases / downloads, etc. A couple that have caught my attention: U2's new self-titled six-disc deluxe edition box set. The set, sold exclusively by Amazon (Island, $79.98) includes expanded, remastered two-disc versions of the band's first three albums, "Boy," "October" and "War." Each bonus disc includes B-sides, live takes and other rarities. There's also room in the set for a fourth, as yet-to-be-released album. Also out today, The Walkmen...

WebbAlert July 29 - Daily tech roundup with G4's Morgan Web

[Digg / upcoming] Sirius and XM Radio got the go-ahead from the FCC to merge. Yahoo will compensate each user on a case by case basis after shutting down it's online music store.

Is Sky falling in on Apple's iTunes music model?

The Apple iTunes store may face tough competition soon in Ireland and the UK as the British television firm BSkyB launches its new online music subscription service, with Universal Music as the first to sign up.

Rock Band Weekly: Nine Inch Nails and Shinedown

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online, Rhythm Although we'd gotten used to three songs being added every week to Rock Band's music store, Harmonix told us this week a little bit more could become the norm as the developer pushes to have 500 songs by the end of the year. This week, the band Trent Reznor built and Shinedown add some songs to the library. Nin Pack (440 MS points / $5.49) -- Also sold seperately (160 MS Points / $2) "Burn" "Capital G" "Last" Individual Shinedow...

James read and enjoyed how carphone warehouse took my iphone & ruined my credit rating

Last Friday I queued up with all the other early adopting Apple fan boys to collect my new 3g iphone on launch day. I took photos of it. I hyped it. I even taught my two year old to say "daddy gotted iPhone" in anticipation of my shiny new toy. As of a short time ago, I no longer have that iPhone and have a ruined credit rating to boot. Here's what happened... I'd pre-ordered from Carphone Warehouse which, when 02 ran out of stock prior to the launch, still had a few of the 16gb version availabl...

The iPhone 3G reviews are in: It's pretty good

Apple.comWalt Mossberg (WSJ), David Pogue (NYT) and Edward Baig (USA Today) have been using the new iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks now, and today they all dish on their experiences. They were all fans of the first model, and they're pretty happy about the new model's new features. The reviewers say the phone's 3G network access leads to a much zippier Internet experience, that its audio quality has been dramatically improved, and that it cozies up to Microsoft's corporate e-mail system. But the...

iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog [IPhone Apps]

There are a total of 552 different apps in the iPhone App Store right now. We're going to do live impressions of the best ones (and some really, really lousy ones if they're interesting enough). Post requests in the comments and check back frequently cause we're updating as we go review more apps. Twitterific: Works just like the desktop version of Twitterific (it gives you access to Twitter), and also uses the iPhone's location-aware features to geotag your tweets. What it doesn't do, like Twin...

For Online Music Lovers: Grooveshark Lite

Grooveshark Lite is a new ’sub-service’ launched by the innovative guys that brought us Grooveshark, a combination music store (iTunes) and music community (Last.fm), with elements drawn from each, billing itself as the world’s first ‘music library.’