Every New Year brings with it the obligatory look over the shoulder at the old year and predictions for the new. Here at the Moose our focus in 2006 will be on media and especially how music, movie and the dead tree print companies deal with the inevitable explosion in their consumers digital experimentation.
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Dirty Martini have had a rather wonderful 2005 and recently wrapped up the year with a show at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom on Dec 17th. The show was a fundraiser for the Portland Schools Foundation’s First Octave music in schools program. The concert raised $4000 for the fund.
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Jonathan Ive, the man behind Apple’s iconic iPod and iMac, has become a CBE in the New Year Honours list. He is widely seen as one of the key figures in Apple’s resurrection.
Jonathan Ive has guided Apple product design since 1992
Mr Ive started working for Apple in 1992 but exerted a big influence on its [...]
Creative, which was making portable MP3 players long before there was an iPod, has designated its latest player, the Zen Vision:M, as a powerful weapon against Apple’s juggernaut.
JEFF LEEDS of the NY Times reports..
Even as the recording industry staggers through another year of declining sales over all, there are new signs that a democratization of music made possible by the Internet is shifting the industry’s balance of power.
Leeds says that independent music companies are making big advances at the expense of the [...]
Mariah Carey’s great year just got its topper. Along with the flood of awards, chart records and accolades she’s gotten for The Emancipation of Mimi, Carey took the lead over 50 Cent in a close race for the year’s best-selling album. With just a few reporting days left, Mimi slipped ahead of 50’s The Massacre [...]
“Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It’s what I’ve never seen before that I recognize.” - Diane Arbus.
I’ve been to London more times in 2005 than any other year since moving to the USA in 1989 and each trip has brought more surprises than the last. In January I stayed at [...]
The recent addition to the Moose office’s iTunes playlist is ‘Z’ by My Morning Jacket. I’m often cynical about rock music’s place in popular culture. Popular rock music in the last decade ceded the urban centers to underground hip hop and settled comfortably in the suburbs, following the MTV/VH1 crowd. That’s fine by me as [...]