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Free your music
One of the most exciting tidbits from Tuesday’s MacWorld keynote for me was the announcement of the move toward DRM-free (digital rights managed) music on the iTunes store –- and, more interestingly,...
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DJ releases blank CD-R
Music producer Danger Mouse wants you to download his album illegally. He is even going to sell you the blank CD-R to burn your ill-gotten tracks. The "Dark Night of the Soul" book with blank CD-R...
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Your favorite music Web sites
Thanks to those of you who responded to my story about changes in the digital music scene. I listed 10 Web sites where you can find new music. The story was pinned on the news that some formerlly...
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One recipe for rock-band success? Video games
Matt Drenik, frontman for hard-rock band Lions, has an easy formula for worldwide exposure - meet an employee from a video game company, then get him drunk. "We had a showcase here three years ago. He...
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SXSW: Spotify isn't coming to the U.S. just yet
The much-talked-about European music service called Spotify is not available in the United States just yet. But the founder of Spotify – which lets people stream music from a vast online database for...
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Geek Out!: Trailer for Weird Al 'biopic' up on Funny or Die
Editor's note: Geek Out! posts feature the latest and most interesting in nerd-culture news. From scifi and fantasy to gadgets and science, if you can geek out over it you can find it on Geek Out!...
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Geek Out!: M.C. Frontalot talks nerdcore hip-hop, geekery
M.C. Frontalot, the founder of “nerdcore” hip-hop, has gathered a respectable online following injecting video games, Internet culture and all things geeky into a genre too often reserved for...
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Learn to play the piano without trying
Atlanta, Georgia – Thad Starner, a pony-tailed Georgia Tech professor, started a talk at an emerging technology conference here with a question for the audience: "How many of you want to play a...
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'Emotichair' helps people feel the music
Say you're watching a scary movie. The tension builds. The villain is about to grab someone. There's no dialogue, just ominous music. If you can't hear, all you get is a caption that may say something...
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