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A preview of the new Bright Eyes album.
March 27, 2007
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XTC's Andy Partridge goes improv.
March 26, 2007
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Wilco, Richard Thompson, Patti Smith and a song from the new Jonathan Lethem book this week on Audiofile.
March 24, 2007
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Utterly unique music from "the last of the Southern black minstrels."
March 19, 2007
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The ex-Pulp frontman proves he's still got it.
March 13, 2007
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One of gospel and R&B's all-time legends revisits the civil rights era.
March 12, 2007
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Take a trip to the moon with this stylish slow burner.
January 23, 2007
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A Supreme Court ruling against peer-to-peer network Grokster would do more than punish music pirates. It would affect the future of the Internet.
By Andrew Leonard
March 30, 2005
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Microsoft's answer to iTunes isn't pretty, doesn't have that great a selection, and won't sell songs that play on an iPod. But it'll still probably take over the world of online music.
By Farhad Manjoo
September 3, 2004
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At a Senate hearing on Thursday, defenders of the Induce Act -- which would ban technologies that encourage copyright infringement -- will try to explain why their bill isn't the stupidest idea they've ever come up with.
By Siva Vaidhyanathan
July 22, 2004
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Is Apple's iTunes service nirvana for music fans -- or just the start of a file-format nightmare that will drive us all nuts?
By Andrew Leonard
October 28, 2003
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A record executive and his son make a formal case for freely downloading music. The gist: 50 million Americans can't be wrong.
By John Snyder and Ben Snyder
February 1, 2003
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Will the success of the pioneering DVD-rental company convince a reluctant music industry to embrace its own subscription strategy?
By Damien Cave
June 6, 2002
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The company that launched a thousand rips may be dead, but the movement it launched continues to thrive -- and to make a mockery of the music industry's pathetic online offerings.
By Janelle Brown
May 17, 2002
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John Alderman's "Sonic Boom" recounts the history of Napster -- and the unstoppable rise of file trading.
By Richard Barbrook
November 30, 2001
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By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down.
By Scott Rosenberg
July 20, 2001
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Check out Guided by Voices, They Might Be Giants, Mogwai and a dozen more
fresh music MP3s now available
to Salon Premium subscribers.
July 2, 2001
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The dust is clearing from the online entertainment wars. Who won? The record labels. Who lost? Consumers.
By Janelle Brown
June 1, 2001
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By Charles C. Mann
March 29, 2001
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A new online music service aims to give listeners what they want -- if music-biz moguls are smart enough to let it.
By Janelle Brown
March 20, 2001
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DivX Networks aims to do for video what MP3s have done for music. Can it please both hackers and the movie biz? First of two parts.
By Damien Cave
March 15, 2001
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Service must start blocking music files pronto, judge rules, but record companies must provide lists of copyrighted songs.
By Damien Cave
March 6, 2001
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Is the music-trading service increasingly desperate, or crazy like a fox?
By Janelle Brown
February 21, 2001
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The courts can shut Napster down, but unless the music industry gives as well as takes, it will never recapture the customers it's alienating.
By Scott Rosenberg
February 15, 2001
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A federal appeals court rules against the file-trading service on nearly every point of law, but holds off enforcing the injunction against it -- for now.
By Salon Technology & Business staff
February 12, 2001
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