Archive for May, 2006

May 6th, 2006

CD Review - Antigone Rising / From The Ground Up

This is the debut album from the all female group, Antigone Rising, which features a largely live acoustic set of roots and folksy rock (but mostly rock). The songs are well written and the live set really brings out the energy that these guys can convey to their audience. Antigone Rising (beats me how it suppose to be pronounced, I read somewhere its not pronounced how its spelled) got a lot press as they were the first artist to have their CD released through Starbucks (yes, that Starbucks). Go check this out for some straight up gutsy rock.

May 1st, 2006

The New Napster

Wow, looks like things are getting interesting over at Napster. After being nearly sued out of existance a few years ago, they re-launched as a totally legal all you can download subscription service. You can keep the downloads as long as you keep on paying the monthly subscription fee, cancel the subscription and your downloads get locked.

But thats not the interesting part. Just today, Napster started a free, ad-supported streaming service that lets you listen to songs and albums on demand. Thats right, you pick the songs you want to hear and its streamed to you. You get ads with the pop-up player, but I can totally live with that since its free. Wonder how Rhapsody will respond? I’m getting ready to cancel my subscription.

ted@tedsu.com