pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

Wherein the craftsman demonstrates the construction of artifacts from an age of steam and brass. Steampunk.

This just in - “Apple is intent on making iTunes indispensable beyond media sales and playback. In update emails Tuesday, Apple and AT&T warned prospective users the expensive phone they lust for won’t meet expectations without an iTunes account. Translation: without a credit card on record, don’t expect much. Much more here.
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Saturday night, on a specially built stage alongside the swimming pool at the conference hotel, Calexico played a short but inspired set. I was able to grab some audio using the Zoom H4 Digital Recorder and I am pleasantly surprised at how well the sound quality turned out. Other than some ambient crowd chatter the [...]

Recording music is taken seriously at Tape Op..
So the Tape Op conference is under way and a quick run through the vendor area finds hundreds of grown men [this conf is women-light, go figure,] drooling over racks of compressors, mixers, mics, speakers and amps. All I can think is that using these components these days [...]

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Your iPod never did this.

Now here’s a geek driven service that I believe we will all find useful….read on - “The services offered by Pinger allow users to record brief voice messages and distribute them via a cell phone much like you would a text message. Users can “ping” hands-free by dictating a message, thus allowing them to message [...]

Give ‘em what they want, but cheaper
Amazon today announced that it will launch a DRM-free music download service. Given its price structure, 99 cents per download compared to Apple’s iTunes service price point of $1.49 for a similar DRM-free download they intend to go head-to-head with the market leader. Here’s the press release and here’s [...]