Music

Dear Courtney,
Why are you and the surviving members of Nirvana so pissy about Kurt Cobain being an unlockable character in Guitar Hero 5? I can understand how it might not look right to you when a grunge artist like him is in the game playing a Bon Jovi Song, but that’s not up to you to [...]

Want to let your Twitter followers know what you are listening to? TunesTweeter automatically updates your Twitter status with what you’re currently listening to in iTunes. It’s a small application (less than 1MB) that runs in the background. No configuration required.
This software is only for Windows users. For a Mac solution, look here.

Last time I wrote about comparing software with guns. I’ve decided on a simpler comparison. Software and hammers.
If you make software the unlocks DVDs, it is controversial and deemed illegal in some cases. What if you use a hammer to smash a lock to somebody’s tool shed, allowing you to steal all the tools and [...]

I’ve been trying out Pandora Internet Radio and so far it’s the best Internet Radio I’ve found. It’s so good because it seems to really be able to judge and play the songs that you like. The site lets you create a personalized radio station. Just give it a band or song that you like [...]

Remember when the movies would be mixed with music videos and kick ass soundtracks? When Terminator 2 came out with a great Guns N’ Roses tune. Robin Hood, The Crow, Top Gun and Forrest Gump all had soundtracks that people just had to have. You’d see the videos on MTV being played over and over [...]

In the ’80s and ’90s, I used to stay up all night watching music videos on MTV. Music videos would keep me entertained for hours. I enjoyed watching shows like Headbangers Ball or 120 Minutes immensely. I remember the feeling I got the first time I saw the Smells Like Teen Spirit video by Nirvana. [...]

I found a cool hack for iTunes where you can enable half star ratings in iTunes. Now I can rate songs 1 and a half stars, 2 and a half stars, etc.
Mac:
Open terminal and type:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE
Windows:
Open the iTunesPrefs.xml file at %appdata%\Apple Computer\iTunes (type that path in the Run command box) and [...]

It’s not often that I am blown away by a singer or band. I rearely blog about music since I tend to like older stuff from the 90’s or 80’s. In trying to find things on iTunes that my girlfriend might like, I stumbled across the song Unless it Kicks by Okkervile River. It had [...]

It looks like all of those 30GB Zune music players that crashed at midnight on 12/31/2008 will work tomorrow. Microsoft has sent out a message to it’s customers. It appears that when the date turns to 01/01/2009, the problem will rectify itself. It’s a problem related to it being a leap year and the clock [...]

Apple currently owns the entire music player market. They are also moving in on taking the smartphone and TV recorder categories with the iPhone and AppleTV. Anything Apple creates these days seems to be considered cool. The Apple brand represents the opposite of Microsoft. That’s what makes it so cool to own something by Apple. [...]