This audio recording application uses the interface metaphor of a portable cassette recorder from the 1980s. I wonder how relevant that is to users under thirty.

I saw "Life and Afterlife " performed last night at the Eyes, Ears, and Feet recital and I really enjoyed it.

This article lamenting the loss of the album cover in the age of compressed music files reminds me of the same discourse when the little paper booklets in CD cases replaces the 12 inch sleeve. And, yeah, I bought an LP of New Order's _Brotherhood_ because

John Gruber makes some insightful remarks on the new Apple-EMI partnership to sell DRM-free music at a premium.

It's great this is available online as mp3s. I love Bill Laswell stuff from the late seventies and early eighties, but the stuff from the nineties – my introduction to Laswell – is a little too new-agey or something.

Microsoft's latest operating system apparently doesn't support it's just-launched "iPod killer." Those Zune screenshots are freaky! I want to know who designed them and what they were thinking.

Tangerine is an OS X application that analyzes mp3 for beats-per-minute and other factors to create workout soundtracks.

Via Waxy, this song sounds like a Rentals out-take, but the lyrics pretty much nail it.