September 1, 2010 – 2:34 pm
Tonight looks like a big night for music gadgets and gizmos with Sony and Apple hosting press conferences ushering in new services and devices. Sony are in Germany for the IFA in Berlin, Europes biggest technology show. The Financial Times reports that Sony will be debuting a music subscription service, which will also offer up films and tv shows that is accessed with PlayStation Network accounts- a Spotify style service that covers everything?
Apple are expected to show off new iPod Nano’s complete with touchscreens and we may even finally find out if the company will finally get round to offer a cloud based music streaming service. Aplle should also be showing off their revamped Apple TV, though Amazon have tried to steal their thunder by announcing their own online TV service in the same week that has saw a tremendous first week for their new Kindle device.
Good to see competition between the big companies as this can only lead to bigger and better services for us lot – the consumers. Sony does face an uphill struggle due to having terrible software in the past for music management, but their revamped PlayStation Store went down well with gamers so hopefully lessons have been learned. Apple will be streaming their conference live tonight with a big catch – it is only available to view on Apple devices. Not making this up!
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August 24, 2010 – 1:30 pm
Did you know there is a DJ Expo going on in Atlantic City? Well it is sure news to me though the only place I seem to get DJ news is from the ticker on DJ Hero. However the chaps at Denon knew there was an expo, and a good thing too as they have three shiny new products for the computer DJ to salivate over. Read on for all the mixing goodness, very complicated specifications and lots of knobs.
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Alas this shall be the last bands on games/gadgets feature for a little while, but we go out on top with Young Guns who release new album ‘All Our Kings Are Dead’ on July 7th. You can check out the band on MySpace and pre-order the album with a signed poster from HMV. Without furher ado, Fraser Taylor from the band answers our questions…
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Escape the E3 madness by checking out what games and gadgets have caught the eye of Smiffy, the lead singer of Orphan Boy. The Pop/Rock trio from Cleethorpes have their new single ‘Pop Song’ available to download from July 19th which will be followed by their album ‘Passion, Pain and Loyalty’ on CD and download on August 2nd. Check out some tunes and tour dates on MySpace. Now to the questions and answers.
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This week is the turn of Brighton band Lostaura to answer our questions on games and gadgets. Lostaura have been around since 2007 and have supported the likes of Bombay Bicycle Club, Band of Skulls and the Chapman Family on tour, and have attarcted the attention of BBC Introducing. Their new mini album ‘the Hiding Place’ is out this week and you catch the band on MySpace.
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