CDs

iTunes -- the "i" doesn't stand for innovation
As songs are increasingly sold one by one online, the musical creativity and risk-taking associated with the album format will decline.
Give it away now
Music start-up FightCloud.com offers CDs free, but says it's making a profit. How can that be?
Napster-proof CDs
By Charles C. Mann
They don't buy it
By Eric Boehlert
The Napster files
A little MP3 file-sharing program outlines the shape of things to come in the music industry -- and it's not what the big labels think.
MP3 free-for-all
The tiny Napster is shaking the music industry to its foundation.
Singing the MP3 blues
Indie musicians find online music distributors every bit as greedy as the recording industry they aim to replace.
MP3 crackdown
As the recording industry "educates" universities about digital music piracy, students feel the heat.
Is Alanis top of the Net pops?
The "Silicon CD" isn't quite the same as a platinum record.
Sharps & Flats: Pearl Jam
We were burning
A new book tells us to forget about Japan Inc. -- Japanese entrepreneurs led the high-tech consumer-electronic revolution.
Hootie and the Blowfish
Confessions of a box-set sucker
A music collector thanks Rhino for repackaging his awful adolescence
Brian Wilson
Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine
The Connells
Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine.
Rufus Wainwright
Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine
Compilation creep
If Starbucks doesn't have a soundtrack to suit your lifestyle, maybe the Postal Service will.
The Awful Truth
Love songs from the dead

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