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Portable MP3 Player Ownership Reaches New High |
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New York, NY — A new study by global market research firm Ipsos indicates that as many as one in five Americans over the age of 12 now own portable MP3 Players and one in 20 own more than one. And interest in viewing music videos, photos, TV shows and even full-length movies from these devices is especially strong among younger consumers who have experience downloading music. |
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by Paul Bristow
A few years ago, many people were worried about what would happen when the few remaining pressing plants – stopped producing. At that time, with the appearance of CDs and other digital formats and with the decision – by most London High Street shops – to stop stocking 45 RPM 7 inch vinyl singles (and 33 RPM 12 inch vinyl albums); it seemed that it would just be a short time before Square Dance Records vanished from the shelves! |
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Wooster Collective's talk at Conflux |
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 Sometimes you'd go to a conference to listen to someone whose work you admire and the experience turns out to be quite disappointing.
But once in a blue moon, you listen to someone else's words and feel like you're falling in love. That's what i experienced a week ago when i heard Sara and Marc Schiller from Wooster Collective talk at the Conflux festival in Brooklyn. |
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Plej - Electronic Music from the Swedish Leftcoast |
 The hazy, black and white images of forests and mountains that adorn the cover of their debut LP Electronic Music From The Swedish Leftcoast seem to somehow suit the wobbly, wistful semantics of their nom-de-disque, hinting simultaneously at the dreamily organic contents that lie within. The LP unwinds in a similarly rustic manner.
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 by Walter Dawkins
Is hip-hop dead? It sure sounds like it if you turn on the radio. What used to be exciting, groundbreaking music seems to have been reduced to a one-note din. The only topics discussed are bling-bling materialism, how many guns you have, and "ho's." Hip-hop poster boy 50 Cent appears on the cover of Rolling Stone with the caption "Mastering The Art of Violence." There's the raunchy Lil' Kim, and of course, top dog and now Oscar-winner Eminem, who has threatened to kill his wife numerous times on his records. |
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Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives |
 Scott Herren is part bedroom auteur, part futurist funkateer. Under prior aliases Savath & Savalas and Delarosa & Asora, Herren has taken excursions into spacey post-rock and neo-electro. As Prefuse73, he applies his glitchy-laptop approach to hip-hop.
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