Better Living Through MP3

MP3s: The CD Is Dead. Long Live The CD!

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:05:46 -0800

Can you imagine? Pre the internet, before the iPod, when cordless phones were nonexistent and people actually drove American cars, listening to music was a completely different ballgame.

MP3s For The End Of The World?

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:10:48 -0800

In keeping with what we do best in the U.S. when the going gets tough, here are some true blues to soothe your parent's furrowed brows. Heck, when they tell you that you'll just have to make do with a year-old iPod or your older brother's jeans, you too might get the blues.

MP3: World Music Blowout

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:33:08 -0800

So in an attempt to broaden our horizons before the decision is thrust upon us, here are the top five world music downloads available from our friends at IODA Promonet. "Rock The Casbah"!

MP3: Curumin’s JapanPopShow, Lee “Scratch” Perry Scratches Back

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:52:44 -0800

As influenced by Run DMC and the B-52s as the MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) of his native Brazil, surreal sample collagist Curumin releases his second album, JapanPopShow to wildly satisfied bloggers the world over!

MP3s: Top Hip Hop Downloads

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:49:49 -0800

As reported by IODA, the Internet Promo Alliance, these are the top hip hop downloads of the week that was.

Britney’s Smooth Jazz, Paris’s Hard Bop, Lindsay’s Ragtime

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:26:00 -0800

An informal survey of the music contained in the iPods of several leading starlets, including those owned by Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, finds that these savvy women prefer jazz to almost any other form of musical content by a ratio of ten to one.

MP3s: The Mommyheads Teach Juliana Hatfield How To Walk Away

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:58:22 -0800

Fantastic power poppers The Mommyheads are that rare thing, a New York band who feels no need to reference Velvet Underground or Blondie. Instead, the Mommyheads worship at the altars of XTC, The Beatles, The Raspberries and Badfinger.

MP3s: The Week That Was; Flora Cruz Trips The Light Fantastic

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:41:45 -0800

Superior power pop with more balls in the air than Serena Williams at the US Open, The Week That Was is the brainchild of by Field Music's Peter Brewis inspired by the complicated storytelling of Paul Auster.

MP3s: The Pretenders Break Up The Concrete

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:39:58 -0800

With the band's first ever