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Microsoft Unplugs 1M Xbox 'pirates'

Microsoft unplugs 1M Xbox `pirates' - thestar.com


This is an interesting and developing story where 1 million (and counting...) Xbox users have had their accounts deleted from Xbox Live for modding their Xbox's to play games that were not original store bought copies. Check it out, what do you think?

The #1 Home Studio Recording Website

In this guide you can learn all the basics of how the latest recording technologies work, step by step, from easy-to-read pages to in-depth articles that seasoned audio professionals will appreciate. There are currently 80 "classes" in the guide and the cover all the essentials you need to know. You may read these articles for free!

Billboard - 50th Anniversary Charts

For Billboard's 50th anniversary, they have compiled a variety of lists about music over the last fifty years. From most #1 songs, most number of weeks on the chart at #1 to all time top artists.

Software predicts which songs will be hits

Hit Song Science comes from Music Intelligence Solutions Inc., which this summer started a new Web service, uPlaya.com, that lets artists and record labels upload songs to have them analyzed for hit potential.

Bobby McFerrin - Nurture vs. Nature

No matter where in the world he does this, the audience is always able to do it.  Bobby McFerrin is trying to prove that some knowledge of music is innate (built into us) and not necessarily due to our environment.




The 10 Audio Commandments

PC Magazine

August 20, 2009

The 10 Audio Commandments

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Music Industry Lures ‘Casual’ Pirates to Legal Sites

New York Times

TECHNOLOGY / INTERNET

By ERIC PFANNER
Published: July 20, 2009


Legal services offering free, unlimited streaming of music, rather than downloads, are proliferating. But whether they can turn a profit is another matter.

Music industry mining some revenue from YouTube

Music industry mining some revenue from YouTube

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Les Paul - More than just Guitars

Tributes for guitar legend Les Paul; dead at 94


Les Paul past away August 13th, 2009 at the age of 94.  Although a talented musician, he is most well-known for inventing the electric guitar; opening the door to pop and rock music as we know it. 

But Paul's influence didn't stop there.  He is also credited with inventing the multi-track recording and the "echoey" sound of reverb.  The multitrack recorder changed how music could be recorded: from a band playing a song in one take, to being able to record instruments and vocals separately and layer them together.

So whatever music your listening to today, remember that it was in some way influenced by the late Les Paul.