The venerable mag Variety is reporting that Led Zeppelin will have its music available on digital platforms from all online retailers beginning Nov. 13. Now you can get the Led out via MP3! The band has also made a deal with Verizon to have its songs available as ringtones (is nothing sacred?). Led Zeppelin has [...]

There is a lot of heated rhetoric regarding the iPhone but let’s separate the idle chatter from real facts: IF YOU TRY TO UNLOCK IT, YOU MIGHT BRICK IT Uh, yea. If you try and replace the carburetor on your BMW 6-series and your car starts belching black smoke and all the lights on the [...]

Once upon a time in a land before time, the music industry was living on Cloud 9. Kids and teens saw the record labels as “their” entertainment and spent accordingly. Other than some summer movies geared towards them, only the music industry understood them – every week, there were new singles at $.39 to $.59 [...]

But will it actually take much of a bite out of the Apple? More than 2 million songs

The current fight between the media companies versus the illegal boys versus iTunes is not much of a fight. The media companies stride into the ring, all prettified up – wearing satin trunks, doing exaggerated neck warm-ups and trying the intimidation stare … sure, they are still 6 feet tall but now they’re just 135 [...]

First, ringtones are not a huge deal to me – other than me mocking the idiotic choices that people select for their ringtones … because nothing could be more gangsta than having a Young Jeezy ringtone go off as you ask your patient if they are Delta Dental You could not be more street … [...]

Are we getting a repeat of the iPod? There it is – a big target as big as daylight – right by the broad side of the barn … yet, after 6 years, you still get comments & reviews of competiting products that offer faint praise such as … “Slightly more expensive than the iPod,” [...]

If you are a fan of Hong Kong vinyl or just weird and wacky things, KidRobot has plenty of items they can sell to you including ring tones! They currently don’t offer tones for all carriers and mfgs of phones but if you are on Cingular (AT&T), T-mobile, or Sprint you might be in luck [...]

Universal Music will try anything to throw a wrench into the well-oiled machine that’s the iTunes music store. They just announced a deal to sell DRM free tracks to 4 other online music stores. After all, it’s not like Apple delivers some $750-$800 million dollars into Universal’s coffers … oh wait, they do. And yet, [...]

Of course, iTunes will start to look into the iTunes Store for missing artwork as soon as you drag in new music files/tracks. The album artwork it does match up with your tracks are top notch. They are perfectly matched and 99.9% the best version resolution-wise out there. However, it can only find and “fix” [...]