Electronic Music NewsHeating Up the House
The News Review:
- Heating Up the House
- Napster’s New Plan: Slash Prices Stream Music Survive
- Alice Cooper Joins Rock Band
- Will the Kindle DX change reading habits?
- Saving Hollywood
- ‘Planet Rock’ remains an enduring theme in the genres it helped launch
- Music Review: Jason Lytle – Yours Truly the Commuter
Heating Up the House
In Utah This Week
Last year Kyle Kerr aka DJ:K helped organize Salt Lake’s first inner-city outdoor dance music festival which not only gathered a decent crowd at the Gallivan Center but also solidified the presence of electronic music here in the 801. Doing so was part of the 28-year-old dad and DJ’s goal to “progress the education of electronic music in Salt Lake City. ” Furthering his cause DJ:K formed the 801 House Clique in 2008 a DJ collective and electronic music blog (www. com) that acts as a portal to new electronic music local events and DJs simply sharing what they love about the genre.
Napster’s New Plan: Slash Prices Stream Music Survive
E-Commerce Times
It doesn’t start and stop with music — it’s digital media in general with music and online games and movies. Napster’s Allen is also counting on Best Buy’s cavernous stores and its Geek Squad to help his company grow beyond its current 700000 subscribers. “There’s a synergy between music and digital entertainment experiences and consumer electronic devices — a symbiotic relationship” he said. “With Best Buy music services can drive some consumer electronics sales. We haven’t made any projections but when you look at the [$5] offer coupled with marketing aspects from Best Buy — from its Sunday circulars in newspapers to BestBuy. com in-store merchandising and signage — there’s bundling opportunities. With all the customer touch points — online and in the store with all the blue shirts we’re excited about it.
Alice Cooper Joins Rock Band
Gamers Hell
The tracks will be available this week for PS3 and Xbox 360. Also coming in this week’s lineup is music from Long Island based hard rock outfit Taking Back Sunday. Check full story for details. Related Resources: Press Release:.
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Will the Kindle DX change reading habits?
msnbc.com
“It’s all the elements coming together that makes this attempt so different. “He compared the Kindle to Apple’s iPod and all other electronic readers to Microsoft’s Zune. “If you can find some music to put on the Zune good for you” Sannier said. “The iPod is a music delivery system with excellent software for finding and downloading and arranging your music as well as a good player for the music. “Getting college students accustomed to the Kindle is important because they will likely retain that reading habit after graduating. College is the perfect training ground for a new way of relating to reading material.
Saving Hollywood
Reuters
And as the country moves toward switching to digital televisions Fox created the “broadcast flag” a digital signal embedded in movies and TV shows which signals that copying the broadcast is illegal. Under pressure from Fox and other studios the Federal Communications Commission in 2003 ruled that all digital TV tuners must watch for the signal and shut down all digital recording capacity when they detect it. The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued and the FCC’s ruling was thrown out by the courts. But Hollywood’s lobbyists have repeatedly tried to get Congress to resurrect the broadcast flag. “Fox has been the chief drum beater on digital-rights management” says Fred Von Lohmann a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “They’ve put a lot of their eggs in the basket of using technology to lock down consumers so they can’t use digital recording devices.
‘Planet Rock’ remains an enduring theme in the genres it helped launch
Detroit Free Press
“Here’s the thing about Bambaataa’s biggest hit: It wasn’t even really a hit — not in traditional terms anyway having failed to crack Billboard’s Top 40 when it was released in 1982. But the distinctive infectious party track has endured as far more than a piece of music. It was a cultural statement a game-changing work that stands as the cornerstone of both hip-hop and electronic music such as techno — the rare song that can lay claim to multiple genres. And its influence continues to resonate through popular culture shaping both the sounds we hear and the mindset behind them. “Planet Rock” will be in the set on Memorial Day when Bambaataa 52 makes his first-ever appearance at Movement the electronic music festival that’s notching its 10th year on the Detroit riverfront. For veteran fest-goers it will be a familiar experience. Perhaps no groove has drifted across Hart Plaza more often than the eerie sci-fi funk of “Planet Rock” a staple in the arsenal of DJs.
Music Review: Jason Lytle – Yours Truly the Commuter
Blogcritics.org
Produced in his relocated digs in the wilds of Montana Yours Truly the Commuter (Anti) finds our thoughtful hero holding up in a snowbound winter ruminating on life mortality and decay. Usual themes for the former Modesto skateboarder (check out the photo of his scratched-up legs on the CD booklet!) but still appropriate for these struggling times. Lytle's first official solo disc sounds of a piece with the music he released as the leader of Grandaddy: lots of emphasis on strumming folkiness and mid tempo rockin' spiced with faux orchestral and electro flourishes. If the CD begins to flag a bit by the last five or six tracks (could've used a skate punk track like "50%" perhaps) a quick shuffle will get you noticing the disc's later sweeter moments like "Rollin Home Alone" which sounds exactly like Grandaddy fans can already hear in their minds. The opener title song sets things up succinctly Lytle telling us in that high-pitched contemplatively resigned croon of his that "I may be limping but I'm coming home. " The conflicting desires to sing to the world and hide away from it provide meaty lyrical subject matter — in "The Birds Encouraged Him" a nameless boy tries to hide in a hole as the sounds of nature keep trying to force him out of it — though at times the listener can't help worrying whether Lytle's own retreat into the mountains hasn't blinkered his distinctive eye for lyrical specificity. No refs to Ikea lamps or rusting El Caminos here folks.