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It may not have been as polished as his later works Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums , but Wes Anderson's film debut, Bottle Rocket , brimmed with a beautiful brand of naivete not concentrated as strongly in his later films. One reason for this is the film's excellent soundtrack . Anderson's movies tend to feature top-notch tunage, but there's something about those Bottle Rocket songs and Mark Mothersbaugh instrumentals that gives us that "so fresh" feeling. But before Bottle Rocket was a feature-length film, it was [...]

This is the Listening Post blog's final post. After today (December 10, 2008), you can follow our music coverage on the Underwire culture blog, courtesy of current LP writer Scott Thill. I'll keep covering the collision of music and technology...

This is the Listening Post blog's final post. After today (December 10, 2008), you can follow our music coverage on the Underwire culture blog, courtesy of current LP writer Scott Thill. I'll keep covering the collision of music and technology on the Epicenter business blog. As things evolved there was a great deal of overlap among Listening Post, Epicenter and Underwire so there is a wisdom to concentrating our fire where it will have the most impact. Scott and I are excited about continuing the same coverage we've [...]

By Eliot Van Buskirk This is the Listening Post blog's final post. After today, you can follow our music coverage on the Underwire culture blog, courtesy of current LP writer Scott Thill. I'll keep covering the collision of music and technology on the Epicenter business blog. As things evolved there was a great deal of overlap among Listening Post, Epicenter and Underwire so there is a wisdom to concentrating our fire where it will have the most impact. Scott [...]

This is the Listening Post blog's final post. After today, you can follow our music coverage on the Underwire culture blog, courtesy of current LP writer Scott Thill. I'll keep covering the collision of music and technology on the Epicenter business blog. As things evolved there was a great deal of overlap among Listening Post, Epicenter and Underwire so there is a wisdom to concentrating our fire where it will have the most impact. Scott and I are excited about continuing the same coverage we've [...]

This is the Listening Post blog's final post. After today, you can follow our music coverage on the Underwire culture blog, courtesy of current LP writer Scott Thill. I'll keep covering the collision of music and technology on the Epicenter business blog. As things evolved there was a great deal of overlap among Listening Post, Epicenter and Underwire so there is a wisdom to concentrating our fire where it will have the most impact. Scott and I are excited about continuing the same coverage we've [...]

It may not have been as polished as his later works Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums , but Wes Anderson's film debut, Bottle Rocket , brimmed with a beautiful brand of naivete not concentrated as strongly in his later films. One reason for this is the film's excellent soundtrack . Anderson's movies tend to feature top-notch tunage, but there's something about those Bottle Rocket songs and Mark Mothersbaugh instrumentals that gives us that "so fresh" feeling. But before Bottle Rocket was a feature-length film, it was [...]

It may not have been as polished as his later works Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums , but Wes Anderson's film debut, Bottle Rocket , brimmed with a beautiful brand of naivete not concentrated as strongly in his later films. One reason for this is the film's excellent soundtrack . Anderson's movies tend to feature top-notch tunage, but there's something about those Bottle Rocket songs and Mark Mothersbaugh instrumentals that gives us that "so fresh" feeling. But before Bottle Rocket was a feature-length film, it was [...]

The ambitious ad-supported music service Qtrax has announced a deal with its second major label: Sony. As part of the deal, Qtrax will offer Sony's digital music catalog for free to those who install its music downloading client. As with Qtrax's deals with EMI and Universal , Sony only agreed to license its regular digital music catalog, consisting of the same music it has already licensed to digital music stores like iTunes and free, ad-supported sources such as imeem and SpiralFrog. Qtrax's ultimate goal, however, is to go far beyond that, [...]

The ambitious ad-supported music service Qtrax has announced a deal with its second major label: Sony. As part of the deal, Qtrax will offer Sony's digital music catalog for free to those who install its music downloading client. As with Qtrax's deals with EMI and Universal , Sony only agreed to license its regular digital music catalog, consisting of the same music it has already licensed to digital music stores like iTunes and free, ad-supported sources such as SpiralFrog (updated -- see below). Qtrax's ultimate goal, however, is to go far [...]

The ambitious ad-supported music service Qtrax has announced a deal with its second major label: Sony. As part of the deal, Qtrax will offer Sony's digital music catalog for free to those who install its music downloading client. As with Qtrax's deals with EMI and Universal , Sony only agreed to license its regular digital music catalog, consisting of the same music it has already licensed to digital music stores like iTunes and free, ad-supported sources such as SpiralFrog (updated - see below). Qtrax's ultimate goal, however, is to go far beyond that, [...]

It may not have been as polished as his later works Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums , but Wes Anderson's film debut, Bottle Rocket , brimmed with a beautiful brand of naivete not concentrated as strongly in his later films. One reason for this is the film's excellent soundtrack . Anderson's movies tend to feature top-notch tunage, but there's something about those Bottle Rocket songs and Mark Mothersbaugh instrumentals that gives us that "so fresh" feeling. But before Bottle Rocket was a feature-length film, it was a 13-minute [...]

Six lucky candidates from a field of 5,000 have survived contests across hundreds of Guitar Center stores to compete at the 2008 Drum-Off finals on January 10. But who will walk away the best new skin-pounder in the music game? That's up to the bigshots. They were announced on Wednesday , and feature some fearsome drummers from across the sonic spectrum, including Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins, Tool's Danny Carey, No Doubt's Adrian Young, Avenged Sevenfold's The Rev and session vet Kenny Aronoff. Those distinguished musicians will be joined by celebration host and Jane's Addiction slammer [...]

Six lucky candidates from a field of 5,000 have survived contests across hundreds of Guitar Center stores to compete at the 2008 Drum-Off finals on January 10. But who will walk away the best new skin-pounder in the music game? That's up to the bigshots. They were announced on Wednesday , and feature some fearsome drummers from across the sonic spectrum, including Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins, Tool's Danny Carey, No Doubt's Adrian Young, Avenged Sevenfold's The Rev and session vet Kenny Aronoff. Those distinguished musicians will be joined by celebration host and Jane's Addiction slammer [...]

Forrester has new predictions about the future of music. Apparently, 41 percent of music sales will be digital by 2013. As previous studies have shown, the increase in digital sales will not make up for the ongoing decline in CD sales, and so as a result, the music market will shrink at a compound annual growth rate of 0.8, dropping to $9.8 billion in 2013. Sales in 2008, by comparison, are expected to total $10.2 billion. A book I'm reading has made me wary about such predictions. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Black Swan [...]

Forrester has new predictions about the future of music. Apparently, 41 percent of music sales will be digital by 2013. As previous studies have shown, the increase in digital sales will not make up for the ongoing decline in CD sales, and so as a result, the music market will shrink at a compound annual growth rate of 0.8, dropping to $9.8 billion in 2013. Sales in 2008, by comparison, are expected to total $10.2 billion. A book I'm reading has made me wary about such predictions. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Black Swan [...]

Six lucky candidates from a field of 5,000 have survived contests across hundreds of Guitar Center stores to compete at the 2008 Drum-Off finals on January 10. But who will walk away the best new skin-pounder in the music game? That's up to the bigshots. They were announced on Wednesday , and feature some fearsome drummers from across the sonic spectrum, including Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins, Tool's Danny Carey, No Doubt's Adrian Young, Avenged Sevenfold's The Rev and session vet Kenny Aronoff. Those distinguished musicians will be joined by celebration host and Jane's Addiction slammer Stephen [...]

British music fans have a new option for purchasing music online: Amazon MP3, which sells music from all of the major labels and thousands of indie labels in the MP3 format without copyright protection. The British version of Amazon MP3 launched quietly on Wednesday, with no fanfare from the retail giant but was spotted by the Britain-based MusicAlly . Amazon MP3 offers DRM-free music from all of the majors, as opposed to Apple, which must apply DRM to certain tracks per its label contracts. Another difference between the two giants is pricing. While Apple [...]

Forrester has new predictions about the future of music. Apparently, 41 percent of music sales will be digital by 2013. As previous studies have shown, the increase in digital sales will not make up for the ongoing decline in CD sales, and so as a result, the music market will shrink at a compound annual growth rate of 0.8, dropping to $9.8 billion in 2013. Sales in 2008, by comparison, are expected to total $10.2 billion. A book I'm reading has made me wary about such predictions. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Black Swan [...]

British music fans have a new option for purchasing music online: Amazon MP3, which sells music from all of the major labels and thousands of indie labels in the MP3 format without copyright protection. The British version of Amazon MP3 launched quietly on Wednesday, with no fanfare from the retail giant but was spotted by the Britain-based MusicAlly . Amazon MP3 offers DRM-free music from all of the majors, as opposed to Apple, which must apply DRM to certain tracks per its label contracts. Another difference between the two giants is pricing. While Apple sticks [...]