Category: Music

  • Bono and Cliff: turkeys voting for Christmas

    In today’s Guardian Marina Hyde does a nifty skewering of rich rock stars’ attempts to increase the lifespan of copyright: The four record giants – Warners, EMI, Sony-BMG and Universal – own the vast majority of the recording copyrights in question, and it is they who will reap almost all the royalties. It’s really important…

  • Popjustice are flogging t-shirts

    [photopress:PJ0116m.jpg,full,pp_image] That one made me laugh. More here.

  • The UK’s proposed new piracy laws: the good news and the bad news

    The good news: changing the format of legal music – eg ripping your CDs to MP3 – will become legal. The bad news: under existing copyright legislation, it’s illegal to bypass “technical protection measures”, ie. copy protection. I’ve seen nothing suggesting the “go ahead, rip your CDs” changes will address that at all, or that…

  • What the world needs right now is yet another closed music system

    That’s what Sony seems to think, anyway. From Wired: Next holiday season could see a new approach from Sony in the MP3 player space — one that could resemble Apple’s iTunes/iPod combo or Microsoft’s similarly-unified Zune approach *bangs head off desk*

  • An open letter to Girls Aloud’s management company

    Dear Girls Aloud’s management company, Have you spotted the difference between the Girls’ original material and their cover versions? Yes! The cover versions are all shite! Stop it! Love and kisses Gary

  • Jordan sings!

    Please let this be true: Charles Arthur links to two Youtubes featuring Peter Andre and Jordan singing their lovely duet. One of the clips allegedly features Jordan’s real voice, while the other clip is the version broadcast. They’re slightly different. Fake? Probably. But still funny.

  • iTrips, other MP3-to-FM transmitters legal in a week or so

    Ofcom’s confirmed that, as of 8th December, iTrips and other iPod-FM transmitters will finally be legal in the UK. Which is good news for the thousands of you who’ve bought such things and put them in a drawer, saying “oh, I wish Ofcom would make it legal so I can actually use it”.

  • Reviewers don’t swoon over Zune

    I really wanted Zune to be good. I really did. Not because of any particular anti-Apple or pro-Microsoft sentiment, but because if Zune’s better than the iPod then that’ll mean better iPods, which in turn will mean better Zunes, which in turn will mean better iPods and so on (and in the ideal world in…

  • Chaccaron

    Pop music today, you can’t make out the words, blah blah blah (Google video). I know I’m late to this, but other than the obvious – it’s miles better than anything 50 Cent or Sean Paul have done or will ever do – I’ve no idea of the backstory. I’m assuming it’s a big joke.…

  • iPods on a plane

    Update, 16 Nov: as David points out, some of the airlines named in the Think Secret story are denying everything…  I mentioned this story – Apple signs a deal to put iPods in planes – in the Zune comments thread, but I reckon it deserves a post in its own right. It’s a vivid illustration…