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  • A Revolution in Sheet Music: The New Musicnotes.com iPad App

    Posted on October 6, 2010 | No Comments
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  • Hands-on with WowWee Paper Jamz Guitar and Amp

    Hands-on with WowWee Paper Jamz Guitar and Amp

    Posted on June 19, 2010 | No Comments
    We got the chance to play with WowWee's Paper Jamz Guitar and Amp (a drum set is also available), coming out in July. These are cool toys for budding musicians and allow you to play along to your favorite songs or play some freestyle chords. The toys have capitative surfaces, which means you can actually perform multitouch actions. There are no moving buttons except for the power switch and everything is controlled by touching the surface of the guitar. The guitar is $24.99 and the amp is $14.99.

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  • IFPI claims that music piracy is right up there with climate change. At least they’re not being melodramatic about it.

    IFPI claims that music piracy is right up there with climate change. At least they’re not being melodramatic about it.

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is sorta like a worldwide RIAA, representing record labels, artists, and musicians to make sure their agenda is always out there. That, of course, makes it pure evil. It just published its Digital Music Report 2010, which tries to detail the situation vis-à-vis digital music, piracy, and so on. The big, scary headline: music piracy is right up there with climate change as an issue of monumental, worldwide importance. Sure, OK.

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  • Activision alludes to DJ Hero 2: Go ahead and pretend to be surprised

    Activision alludes to DJ Hero 2: Go ahead and pretend to be surprised

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    There will be a DJ Hero 2. Yes, I realize that saying that—Activision will make a sequel to one of its games—is akin to saying earthquakes are bad, or that candy is delicious, but there you have it. The sequel was confirmed as part of a contest.

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  • Doodly-doo! Eigenharp is hitting the U.S. in January

    Doodly-doo! Eigenharp is hitting the U.S. in January

    Posted on December 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Those about to rock out on a wind instrument with percussion pads and God knows what else, we salute you. The Eigenharp is coming to the U.S. in January and will appear at the Winter NAMM show. There is no confirmation as to which Eigenharp will arrive on our shores but there will be a [...]

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  • CrunchDeals: Ultimate Ears TripleFi earphones for $100 (today only)

    CrunchDeals: Ultimate Ears TripleFi earphones for $100 (today only)

    Posted on December 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Wow. Announced about a year ago at a price of over $400, the Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10 and TripleFi 10vi “Noise Isolating Earphones” are going for just $99.99 each on Amazon today, down from yesterday’s (and presumably tomorrow’s) price of $328.

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  • UK study finds that people who illegally download music are biggest paying music consumers

    UK study finds that people who illegally download music are biggest paying music consumers

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Well, well, well, look what we have here. A new study shows that people who download music illegally are more likely to buy music than their non-pirating counterparts. Why's that? It turns out that people who are into downloading music are actually into music, whereas people who don't download music aren't necessarily fans of music in general.

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  • It’s brother versus brother in the UK re: that proposed anti-file sharing law

    It’s brother versus brother in the UK re: that proposed anti-file sharing law

    Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
    It's time for story Eight Million and Six-teen about how the record labels and the musicians they ostensibly represent no longer get on with each other. This time, we have a bit of a row developing over in the UK, where that proposed knock-people-off-the-Internet-for-file-sharing law is currently stirring division amongst the ranks. One on side, of course, you have the record labels who, in the year 2009, are still afraid of piracy destroying the music business (please note: that's destroying the music business that made record label execs fat and happy; music hasn't gone away, it's merely changed, and change is death to the record label middle men), and on the other, the musicians who recognize that, you know, maybe suing the pants off your customers isn't the best thing to do.

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  • Interview: Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater

    Interview: Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater

    Posted on August 28, 2009 | No Comments
    I recently had the privilege to interview Jordan Rudess from the progressive rock/metal band, Dream Theater, while the band was on tour. Not only is Jordan an amazing keyboard player, but he also is a big geek. So like most musicians, he combined his passion for music and technology, and released an application to the [...]

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  • Sheet music for the Kindle: I’m so getting Memories from Cats

    Sheet music for the Kindle: I’m so getting Memories from Cats

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Novato Music Press is now selling over 20,000 pieces of sheet music for the Kindle, allowing budding Rachmanonovs and Wiggles to download and play music right off of their DXen. The sheet music starts at $3.

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  • Sheet Music Comes to The Kindle

    Sheet Music Comes to The Kindle

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Amazon’s Kindle now does sheet music. It seems like the perfect match, especially if you choose to read it from the oversized Kindle DX. The music, which can be bought in the Kindle Store, comes from Novato Music Press catalog of over 20,000 titles, including 650 from Dave Beeth-Oven himself. The books are cheap, too, starting [...]

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