Category: Music

  • Zune: are we looking in the right place?

    I’ve been spending a lot of time with Windows Vista recently and I’m eating a large slice of humble pie: like many people, I was looking in the wrong place. Yes, it borrows a lot of ideas from OS X; sure, in some respects it’s Windows XP with nicer trousers; absolutely, the User Account Control…

  • Sugababes are touring

    Yes! March and April 2007, which means that by then they’ll have had so many line-up changes that there’s every chance the band will be three obese Yorkshiremen in pencil skirts and flat caps. Sadly (for us) they’ve moved up a league, so this time they’re playing big soulless sheds instead of the more intimate…

  • Quick live review: Muse, Glasgow SECC

    Pompous, self-indulgent nonsense. Superb.

  • Ooh lordy, it’s Sugababes

    [photopress:heidi.jpg,full,alignright]Regular readers will know that I’m prone to hyperbole when it comes to pop music, but – is the new Sugababes single (and video) the pinnacle of human achievement, or what? The answer is, of course, yes. Here’s why. * It’s about sex. Sure, most good pop music is about sex, but this is clearly…

  • Glass CD sounds better. Eh?

    According to this Inquirer report, there’s a new kind of CD in town. A JAPANESE SOUND boffin has come up with a glass CD which he reckons does not warp, distort, and looks and sounds nicer than those nasty plastic creations… He said that plastic CDs were not completely transparent, information on them cannot be…

  • Guilty pleasures: The Killers

    I know it’s hard to believe sometimes – well, most of the time – but I do know the difference between things that are cool, and things that are uncool. But when it comes to music, I seem to have a mental block: I can list all the reasons why a particular song is uncool…

  • Alpine’s in-car iPod adapter: brilliant! And rubbish!

    Hooking up an iPod to your car stereo is a wonderful thing, but if you don’t have a proper connection you’re stuck with a mess of cassette adapters and cigarette lighter chargers (or worse, iTrips). So hurrah for Alpine, makers of really nice-sounding car stereos, who have an iPod connector that gets rid of the…

  • Networking iTunes

    One for the Mac-heads: I want to network iTunes but I’m not sure of the best way to do it. Anyone experimented with various options and found a solution? This is what I want to do: I’ve got a powerbook upstairs and a Mac Mini under the telly, running Wi-Fi. I want to replace the…

  • Achtung, baby

    My first column for .net is now online. Naturally, it’s a rant about DRM.

  • Zune launches today

    [photopress:zune_colors.jpg,full,pp_image] Engadget has (most of) the details, although somehow I don’t think the launch will attract quite as much online attention as this week’s iPod stuff. Still, looks quite nifty with good file format support and a nice screen. Until we know the price, though, it’s hard to say whether it’ll fall into the “want…