If you were wondering, as I was, whether the Beatles would sell on iTunes, the answer appears to be an emphatic YES. In a little more than 24 hours, various Beatles albums have taken over several spots in iTunes’ “Top Albums” list. Mashable reports that every Beatles album available on iTunes has found its way into the top 36 albums at …
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Beatles on iTunes: Will They Sell?
The Beatles have hit iTunes.
The “Beatles Box Set” is priced at $149 and features “all of the band’s studio albums as well as the Past Masters collection.” Single albums are also available for download at between $13 and $20 each.
I’d be very interested to see how well these albums sell. I can’t imagine too many people have been …
At Long Last: The Beatles Catalog Will Be Available On iTunes
Tuesday could mark the end of a long-standing impasse between Apple and EMI.
According to unofficial reports, Steve Jobs will announce the debut of The Beatles catalog on iTunes at Tuesday’s press event, also rumored to be the reveal of a Web-based iTunes library. The Wall Street Journal reported that a deal was finally struck …
Are Virtual Artists Really Musicians?
Have you heard of Hatsune Miku? The Japanese pop star had one of her biggest performances yet a few months back, singing before a glow-stick waving crowd of enthusiastic fans. She’s pitch perfect, never gets tired despite constantly dancing and never flakes on her performances. Miku is the ideal musician, but she’ll never be able to meet …
Learn How to Play the Fiddle on Your iPad
Available today, Smule’s $2.99 Magic Fiddle iPad app turns Apple’s $499 tablet into a $501.99 digital fiddle of sorts.
The app teaches you to play the fiddle using a rolling line of notes that cross over a virtual set of strings, similar to how games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero work. You can play along to a built-in library of …
Rock Band 3 Review: You Might Accidentally Learn an Instrument
Rock Band 3
MTV Games/Electronic Arts
Developer: Harmonix
Xbox 360, PS3, Wii
ESRB rating: T for Teen
System reviewed on: Xbox 360, PS3
Here’s where I’m coming from with these music rhythm games: I found myself in several bands throughout high school and college—band bands, not “Where’s my sheet music?! I lost my reed!” …
Apple Considering Monthly Fees for Unlimited iTunes Music?
The New York Post reports that Apple may be trying to hammer out a deal with the major music labels to provide iTunes customers with unlimited access to tracks for a set monthly fee. This information comes from unnamed sources, which seem to be all over the place regarding Apple news lately. I’m considering a macro that’ll type “take …
MOG Gets a Roku Channel
One of our favorite on-demand music services, MOG, is expanding to one of our favorite set-top boxes, Roku, today. The MOG Channel will stream music at 320kbps and includes MOG’s wonderfully awesome “MOG Mobius” music discovery engine that allows subscribers to listen to true artist only stations or mix it up at their leisure.
To …
Ten Freaky Songs About Star Wars
We begin our selection of musical tributes to Star Wars with the granddaddy of them all, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s immaculate “American Pie” rewrite “The Saga Begins”:
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Of course, not all Star Wars tributes are quite as articulate. The ridiculous sci-fi punk rock trio Supernova went …
Wow, Weezer Sure Does Love LOST: First Look At ‘Hurley’ Album Cover
For its eighth full-length album, Geek rockers Weezer have chosen to dub their upcoming release Hurley, as in – you guessed it – Jorge Garcia from LOST. Together, a team up of Weezer and Hugo are two unstoppable forces of nerd-cute, which is why Hurley’s face displayed as the cover art will ensure my purchase. It hits record stores …
Ten Jaw-Dropping Versions of the Star Wars Theme
Of all the thousands of covers of John Williams’ main title theme from “Star Wars” floating around on YouTube, perhaps the most impressively elaborate is the a cappella group Moosebutter’s split-screen vocalese rendition, subtitled “John Williams Is the Man”:
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And yet, somehow, …
MobileMe iDisk App Update Brings Streaming Music Support, Legal Questions
If you’re a MobileMe subscriber and use Apple’s cloud-based iDisk service, the latest mobile version allows you to stream music files from your storage space directly to your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. That update was pushed out about a month ago and made some headlines as people began to ponder whether Apple was paving the way for …