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  • Billy Miles

    • 10 out of 10
    • Billy Miles
    • Take the voice of a young Billie Holiday and stuff it into a svelte, petite body with the face of an angel, and you have some idea of what it's like to experience the music of Billy Miles in her self-
  • An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Torm�

    • 10 out of 10
    • Mel Torm� & George Shearing
    • 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
  • Music Has The Right To Children

    • 10 out of 10
    • Boards of Canada
    • This one will haunt you. From the first notes to the last, their sound surrounds you. BOC has put out a fantastic catalogue, and this album is a great starting point for a new listener. Jump straight
  • Modern Lovers

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    • Modern Lovers
    • This timeless masterpiece is little known, but it has inspired almost as many bands as The Modern Lovers' own inspiration -- and only slightly better known -- The Velvet Underground & Nico.

  • Live at the Magic Bag, Ferndale, MI

    • 6 out of 10
    • Supersuckers
    • Man, there's nothing like good, old fashioned, rock and roll... add a bit of industry resentment to that with a double-shot of cynicism, and you get one of the best "new" rock bands going. This album

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Samsung Introduces Slimline 4GB MP3 Player

LAS VEGAS -- This week at CES, Samsung has introduced a new digital media device that, while not looking like Apple’s iPod nano, is aimed at the same market. The YP-25 is a slimline 4GB flash memory-based MP3 player with a 1.8 inch color display, and Samsung claims it is the first device in the category to support Microsoft’s "Plays For Sure" music download and subscription platform.

Plays For Sure is based on the Windows Media file format, and is Microsoft’s answer to the dominance of Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Services using the technology offer downloads and subscriptions, and Samsung noted that the YP-25 can play downloads from MTV’s Urge, Napster, Rhapsody, and Yahoo!.

It features a rechargeable battery with 24 hours of power. It supports MP3, WMA, WMA DRM10, and file formats, and can display JPEG images.

Samsung, which makes the flash memory used in Apple’s own iPod nano product, has managed to hit the same price points that Apple has with the nano, US$199 for a 2GB model, and $249 for the 4GB unit. The company has not yet added the product to its Web site, but Samsung said it will ship in February of 2006.


The Samsung YP-25

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