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  • Pretty Hate Machine

    • 8 out of 10
    • Nine Inch Nails
    • For years I wanted to make music that sounded like something between Love and Rockets and Ministry. In 1989, Trent Reznor beat me to it with this genre-defining album, and it smacked me upside the hea
  • Machine Gun Etiquette

    • 8 out of 10
    • The Damned
    • Punk rock is mostly associated with three chords and a bad attitude, but the Damned were one of the few bands of the era bent on bringing musicianship and a good sense of humor to the scene. And while
  • Jagged Little Pill (Acoustic)

    • 6 out of 10
    • 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,
  • With Teeth

    • 4 out of 10
    • Nine Inch Nails
    • In the sprawling post-A&R rock and roll world, there are two camps: the Beatles and the Stones. The Beatles are the artists that like to explore, evolve, and change styles. The Stones are the artis

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    • The Strokes
    • The Strokes set the music world on fire with this 2001 album, with headlines declaring that the New York band was here to save Rock and Roll. While the band hasn't made as much of a splash since t

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CSFB Reiterates ‘Outperform,’ Expects ‘Solid Results’ From Apple

Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) on Wednesday issued a research report obtained by The Mac Observer. The note addresses problems in the flash memory market, where prices declined by 30% over the past month because of surplus inventories among manufacturers. That caused SigmaTel, Apple's supplier for the iPod shuffle's chip, to drop its revenue guidance for the current quarter from US$86-$95 million to $68-$72 million. CSFB, however, still sees "generally solid" sales for the iPod shuffle, despite their analysts' assertion that the MP3 player should have a display as well as broader functionality.

CSFB sees "limited downside" in its estimate of 1.9 million iPod shuffles sold by Apple this quarter, given that the firm thinks the hard drive-based iPod's sales have the "strength to likely offset any weakness in the shuffle." In fact, CSFB thinks its estimate of 3.4 million iPods sold this quarter "may be too conservative, based on our checks of sell-in of key iPod components."

As a result, CSFB has reiterated its "Outperform" rating on Apple's stock and says it "continues to expect solid results when the company reports June earnings on July 13. The firm has a $45 12-month target on the stock. Apple's stock closed the day on Wednesday down 2.52% to $36.37.

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