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  • The Stooges

    • 8 out of 10
    • The Stooges
    • Another pillar of my musical foundations, The Stooges' first album is one those records whose influence far outweighed its popularity. Like The Velvet Underground & Nico, hordes of people wh

  • Supernature

    • 10 out of 10
    • Goldfrapp
    • On their latest CD, Supernature, Goldfrapp has put together a successful mix of 1980-era New Romanticism, German cabaret, and T. Rex glam that leaves you riveted even through the album's lulls. It's a great amalgam that sounds current without sounding at all dated.

  • 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,
  • De Nova

    • 10 out of 10
    • The Redwalls
    • Wow! Perhaps my 5-star rating is simply because the Redwalls are not only new and fresh (none of them older than 22!), or perhaps its because -- despite their ages -- they are able to totally capture
  • Wolfmother

    • 8 out of 10
    • Wolfmother
    • Black Sabbath, The White Stripes, The Stooges. There aren't many bands worth their salt that want to be compared to other bands, but when I listen to Wolfmother's self-titled American debut, I can

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Unnamed Media Exec: Apple’s Not So Hard to Work With

Apple’s consistent record of being a difficult partner to work with is undeserved, according to an anonymous media company executive quoted by Reuters. In a story looking at Apple’s iTunes pricing policies, this exec told Reuters, "The conversations I’ve had with them over the last quarter are markedly different than they were a year or two ago," and that, "Apple is much more flexible than people presume."

At the heart of the story is whether or not multi-tier pricing at iTunes for TV shows being offered by HBO signals a major policy change for Apple or just an exception for a single media company (HBO) with premium-quality programming.

NBC left iTunes after Apple reportedly refused to let the TV network charge up to $4.99 for some shows, having variable pricing based on popularity on others, and forced bundling deals. That was more than six months ago, yet Apple announced HBO programming this month on iTunes at the standard $1.99 per episode rate alongside three programs (The Sopranos, Deadwood, and Rome) priced at $2.99 per episode.

This subject will be closely watched, at least by the media companies -- and possibly by music labels, as well -- as they all try and figure out how to monetize this newfangled Internet thing as a content delivery vehicle.

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