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  • Rock Spectacle

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    • Barenaked Ladies
    • These guys know how to put on a live show, and whomever recorded this knows how to capture one. Rock Spectacle is one of the warmest-sounding recordings I've ever heard, and totally fills a room at a
  • An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Torm�

    • 10 out of 10
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    • Of the three men who taught me how to sing, the last was Mel Torme. Apparently, Mel Torme is a joke to anyone more than a decade older than me, a living parody of a Vegas crooner. But I stumbled on th
  • Odyssey Number Five

    • 10 out of 10
    • Powderfinger
    • Guitar-driven rock out of Australia, Powderfinger has not seen much exposure in the States, but should get a nod for their toe-tapping songs. Building off their previous release, "Internationalist" (
  • Jagged Little Pill (Acoustic)

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    • Alanis Morissette
    • Ten years after the original release, comes the traditional celebratory acoustic re-recording. The album has held up remarkably well. While it is not as meaningful to me as it was when I was sixteen,
  • The Dresden Dolls

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    • The Dresden Dolls
    • The energetic duet of Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione that make up the Dresden Dolls have created a wonderfully haunting sound in their self-titled album. They have been able to construct an imme

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Barron’s: Music-Ready Cellphones Will Hurt Apple iPod Sales

Apple Computer (AAPL) stock is expected to take a hit Monday after a Barron's newspaper report (subscription required) concluded that as more cellphone companies add the capability of downloading and playing music, sales of the popular iPod digital media device will slow.

The report said that by 2006, many new handsets will carry software, circuitry and data storage for portable music. It said this will let people download songs from personal computers, like iPods, but also download music via a wireless connection to competing music services.

"While optimists think Apple could sell 45 million iPods next year, mobile-phone makers will be selling more than 750 million handsets," wrote Bill Alpert in a store entitled 'Bites Off the Apple'. "All those handsets could weigh on the iPod's growth prospects -- and Apple's premium stock valuation. Cellphone users won't need to lug around a second gadget to have their music."

The report went on to say it will be sad to see the iPod "overtaken by the common cellphone" and quoted an industry executive as saying he sees a day not too soon away where Apple's marketshare of the digital music business could shrink from 90% to just a few percent.

The report said that Apple's dominance with the iPod will dwindle slowly as today's mobile phones sold in the U.S. don't have, and will not have for some time, the capacity to store as many songs as an iPod. In addition, the report said it will be some time before state-of-the-art, third-generation wireless networks are in place in the U.S. that offer more reliable and faster downloads of music files.

Barron's said an Apple spokesperson "declined to discuss looming competition from cellphones, after the newspaper had tried for several weeks to get comment."

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