http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121304883

Here is an interesting story on how digital recording (your laptop) is replacing expensive recording studios. There is a 6 minute audio segment from NPR at the top of the above link.

“”The real value for most bands isn’t the equipment,” says McTear. “A guy at Guitar Center or Sam Ash would like [...]

Apple has bought online streaming music service LaLa.com.   While this surely changes the game, I’d really like to see a site offer the depth of features that I’ve been dreaming about for at least 4 years now.  Yet I don’t even see people trying.  I can’t be the only one with these ideas [...]

“Today MOG launched MOG All Access, a revolutionary new online music listening service unrivaled in quality and ease-of-use.

MOG All Access is the extraordinary music listening service we full-time music fans have always wanted. You can listen to just about every album and song you can imagine (about 6 million songs), all-you-can-eat and on-demand [...]

last.fm – Chart to M3U Playlist Generator: http://lastm3u.powha.net/

chart/graph your music taste: http://lastgraph.aeracode.org/

Fetch your Last.fm data, munge it and then do wonderful things: http://l.alanedwardes.com/my/

Visualise Last.fm’s network of similar artists and bands: http://pattie.fe.up.pt/i_know_that_artist/

http://musebin.ws/ http://twisten.fm/

http://www.leebyron.com/what/lastfm/

This site presents some very interesting graphic charts for displaying music listening habits using last.fm.

favtape.com is a muxtape-like website. The difference is that it doesn’t host the music files. It has a lot more features though. “Top Songs by Year”, genre, decade, etc.

Or you can host your own muxtape-like playlist on your own site with opentape.fm