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Interview with George Kitching of Overspill Poets

April 8th, 2010

You guys have come a long way so far on your musical journey from the Tyneside flats where Overspill Poets was first conceived and developed between delivering sandwiches to office workers and watching endless re-runs of Auf Wiedersehen Pet with spirited impromptu jams. There are a lot of up & coming bands that can benefit [...]

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Apple Irked to the Core with Amazon

March 4th, 2010

iTunes, the sleeping giant of the download market, awoke on the wrong side of the bed to declare war on Amazon MP3’s “Daily Deal.” The Daily Deal typically prices a current release for $1.99 – $3.99 for one day. Puffed up with the success of the Daily Deal, Amazon started asking record labels to give it [...]

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Don’t Look to the DNA for an Answer

February 25th, 2010

I confess. I am a diehard vinyl fan. What the almost three decades old compact disc gave us in terms of convenience came at the cost of a loss in fidelity (as well as artwork). The CD was also marketed as scratch free which, based upon the drum machine-like skipping sound I’ve experienced many times, [...]

Filled Under: Music Formats