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Neil Young will finally launch his long-awaited Pono Player…

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Ever since Apple & Itunes got big, Neil Young hasn’t been too impressed with today’s sound of MP3 players and the Ipod. He just doesn’t like how the sound of the mp3 gets dummied down from the original recording. You know how when you record music on an album and you convert it to Mp3 for the internet, the sound goes down a little bit? That’s what Neil doesn’t want. He wants to stop that from happening so you can get a good, loud, and clean sound out of an mp3. That’s what the Pono player does. On the Pono player you can hear the original sound from the original recording… one that doesn’t lower the resolution of sound.

I’m sure some would accuse Neil Young of wanting to make more money and to please himself with the sound but it’s not true. He wants to improve the sound of digital music for the world. He’s doing this for all of us music lovers.

Pono Music will be launched this week on March, 15th, and the Pono player will cost $399 each.

More on the story here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-to-launch-21st-century-music-service-ponomusic-this-week-20140310

Could Neil Young change the future of digital music? Could Pono Music take over the spotlight of Apple/Itunes? I predict yes. Pretty soon, Apple/Itunes will be a thing of the past and something new will come around. I think that will be Neil’s, Pono Music. It may take some time but Pono Music will be big.

I’ll have to agree with Neil though that the sound quality on today’s mp3 is horrible. We deserve better sound quality.

I’m curious on what Pono sounds like myself. I’m sure it will sound way better than the Ipod. I think what Neil is doing is pretty heroic and I wish him luck on this.

Kev

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Ozzy-era Black Sabbath finally on Itunes!!!

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After many years of Ozzy-era Black Sabbath avoiding Itunes, the band finally decided to have a change of heart. I’ll probably get all these except for the first Black Sabbath album which I already have on CD. The rest of ’em I’ll probably get so I can listen to on my Ipod Touch at the gym. All of these albums are great, though.

When will Kid Rock and Garth Brooks ever have a change of heart with Itunes???

Kev

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David Bowie’s “The Next Day” album review…

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So David Bowie, is finally releasing his most anticipated album, “The Next Day” after a 10 year long wait for his return. David, agreed to let Itunes stream the new album for FREE. I gave the album a listen in Itunes today. When you take a long break from music, some people mistakenly believe musicians lose it with their musicianship and songwriting talent. Well, after giving this album a listen, David haven’t lost it at all. The man still has IT!

While David released his first single, “Where Are They Now”, fans worried that the album will be full of slow ballads. Turns out that most of the album is pretty rockin’! The album is full of guitar playing all the way through. There are only like two or three slow songs, but the slow songs are still really good. David’s guitar player, Earl Slick, has been playing guitars on David’s albums for years now. This album has Earl’s best playing, yet. This album also has David’s best singing. After listening to this album, I immediately thought that this album is a celebration of his music over the years in his career. The album has something for everyone on it. You want a tight rock n’ roll song that he had in the 70’s. You will hear a lot of that. You want to hear David’s dance & pop stuff (like he did with songs such as “Lets Dance”, “Golden Years”, etc.), there’s some of that on there as well. David still has that energy and intensity in his songs. It has an old school Bowie feeling.

After the long 10 year wait, David probably thought to himself… “My fans have waited too long, I better give them a rock album, something they’ve always wanted to hear”. This album is clearly for the fans who missed him during those 10 years. This album is David clearly saying to everyone, “I’m back and better than ever”.

I thought the album was absolutely amazing and incredible. It gave me goosebumps throughout. When I get my own copy of the album, I’m gonna be listening to it a lot. Welcome back, David, and please, don’t make us wait so long for your next record!

Kev

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Led Zeppelin, now in the Itunes store!!!

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Led Zep fans! First AC/DC have a change of heart with Itunes, and now Led Zeppelin, joins in. Led Zeppelin is another famous band who have avoided Itunes for years, and now their entire catalogue is now purchasable in the Itunes store.

I don’t need to buy their albums in Itunes ’cause I own all of them on CD, anyway. Well, except for “In Through the Outdoor”, I might get that just one from Itunes.

I’m about to watch the Led Zep interview with Charlie Rose on “CBS This Morning”.

Kev

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Report: Ac/Dc finally has change of heart with Apple, you can now buy the band’s entire discography in the Itunes Store!!!

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Ac/Dc, the legendary Australian rockers, have always avoided Apple and Itunes, but it seems the band recently had a change of heart. Out of no where, the band announced that today that they released their entire discography on, Itunes. That includes the balds 16 studio albums (both the Bon Scott and Brian Johnson eras), live albums, and compilations.

Read the band’s announcement, here.

I wonder what made the band, finally change their mind? They probably came to a realization that nobody’s buying CD’s anymore and the band’s CD sales are dropping. It’s understandable why they are so late getting on Itunes ’cause they are old geezers who don’t understand today’s technology yet. I think the main reason is they are releasing “Live at River Plate” on CD this week, and they want the album to sell big. It’s their way of promoting the new live album in a big way.

I love Ac/Dc. Always have! I’m glad they’re on Itunes and would get more of their albums that I don’t have yet. Record stores don’t sell their classic albums anymore. I only have a few Ac/Dc albums and would love to get more of their stuff. Especially more of the Bon Scott era.

Kev

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Report: Prince slams the internet, says it’s dead and compares the world wide web to MTV, he actually brings up valid points!!!

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Prince explains why he wouldn’t allow his new album, “20Ten” to be available to download at Itunes because he thinks the internet is dead and it’s very much like MTV.

Read more on what he has to say here:

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/07/06/prince-internet/

Prince may be a huge dick and an egomaniac, sure, but to be fair to him, I agree with him and he brings up valid points, seriously. The internet was once cool in the early 90’s, when the world wide web wasn’t that mainstream, but now that the internet is part of pop culture media, this is what Prince means when he compares the internet to MTV.

Prince is not the only music artist that hates Itunes. Kid Rock and Garth Brooks are no fan of Itunes either.

It might not be fair for fans of these artists, but hey, what can I say? It’s their music. They write it. They own it. So music artists have all their right to sell it how they please. Respecting the owner’s work with heart is what everyone should do. This is America, musicians do what they want to do. Doing whatever they feel it’s right for their music.

Kev

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My new Ipod…

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Today, I just picked up a 8GB Ipod from Best Buy. Everybody I know pretty much has one, so I figure it’s time that I would get one for myself.

I set it all up and it’s all good to go. I purchased 14 songs from Itunes from the $15 Itunes card I purchased at Best Buy along with it.

I purchased a mix of local music and national music. Just bought some of these songs: Lady Gaga “Poker Face”, Weird Al Yankovic “Craigslist”, Soundgarden “Outshined”, Phish “Down With Disease”, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Gold Lion”, Joe Nacco “Crazy Scientologist”, Sean Rowe “Old Black Dodge”, Lunic “Love Me”, Railbird “Locomotive”, a couple of Teenage Casket Company songs, and several more.

Itunes store can be pretty useful ’cause if I hear songs on the radio that I really like and if I don’t want to buy the full album, I could just buy that one tune.

I know I said I hated Lady Gaga many times, I still do, but I’ve said a few times in the blog that I like her one song, “Poker Face”. “Poker Face” is actually a really good song that I can listen to, but the rest of her stuff, no. I figure “Poker Face” would be a good tune to work out to, that’s why I picked that one.

Now that I think about it, I don’t have to buy Phish albums on CD at all. I can simply buy all the Phish albums from Itunes. Itunes record store is much cheaper than the record stores at the malls.

I mainly bought an Ipod so I can have some tunes to work out with. Listening to music while working out at the gym or where ever is a pretty important part of the workout. It makes you work faster and harder, gives you more energy. Music does that.

Next I need to buy an Ipod arm band, so I can just have the Ipod on my arm while I’m working out.

Kev

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Report: Ac/Dc refuses to sell music on Itunes, the band says they make albums, not singles…

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You think Kid Rock is the only musician who hates Itunes and will never sell music on there? You can add Ac/Dc to the list. The band Ac/Dc refuses to sell their music to Apple’s Itunes because they feel “they make albums, not hit singles”. What they mean is that they feel that all their music is a work of art to listen through an entire album all at once, they don’t want fans just choosing one or two songs they like off the album to listen to when they should listen to an entire album. That is what Angus Young is talking about and why he hates Itunes.

In other words, fans shouldn’t concentrate on listening to just “hit singles” only, when they really should be listening to an entire album.

More on it here:

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=105549

Angus is dead on right, I agree with him 100%. 🙂

I have noticed a lot of people out there only concentrate on “hit singles” when buying albums or just picking their favorite songs to listen to on the album instead of listening to the whole thing.

That is not me when I listen to music.

When I listen to music, I always listen throughout the entire album, I am not picky and choosy with songs, I normally listen to an entire album.

Those that concentrate on hit radio singles only, have no clue on what music is supposed to be about. I’m not a radio hit single guy either, never was.

Kev