AOL’s kiss of death touches another – Winamp to shut down after 15 years

Started in 1997 by two college students, Winamp gained popularity as the MP3 player of choice for many geeks. Today, thanks to online competition and AOL’s inherent ability to ruin anything it touches, Winamp will be closing down on December 20, 2013. At that time, Winamp web services and website (including Winamp downloads) will cease…

Veteran mega-rockstar Sammy Hagar, the “Red Rocker”, has spoken openly about his UFO alien abduction and subsequent interest in the paranormal before. Back in 2011 he shocked fans when he first broke the story of his 1967 alien abduction on several national television show appearances. This week, he expanded on the story during an interview…

Ah, the sound of beautiful music. But what some will call music, others will call noise. The lab rats and monkeys are partial to Metallica while Geek Slop is more of a Beethoven aficionado. Put the two groups of musical tastes together and well, you have a big fight over what radio station to listen…

Microsoft is launching a new music service, to coincide with the Windows 8 launch, that will include streaming music, paid subscription models, and a music store. It will appear on Xbox 360 and Windows 8 PCs, laptops, and phones. The service will be rolled out to other platforms (iOS, Android, and a web-based version) at…

Neil Young introduced his new high-fidelity Pono music service on The Late Show with David Letterman on September 28, 2012. Little details on the technology utilized are available but Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea got a first-hand demonstration of the service and said “it’s a draastic difference”.

The Sound Taxi toured London last week collecting music samples from random street noise in a project named Make the City Sound Better. The samples are then mixed into a groove – real time. Production software on board the taxi gathers street noise via microphones mounted on top of the car, mixes it real time,…

A viewer snapped this funny picture of a guy carrying a automobile dashboard boombox on his shoulder.

As usual, 4channel is helpful for this person asking what musical album cover this David Cross album is based on. Click image to view full size.

The Boston Symphony was performing Beethoven’s Ninth. In the piece, there’s a long passage about 20 minutes during which the bass violinists have nothing to do. Rather than sit around the whole time looking stupid, some bassists decided to sneak offstage and go to the tavern next door for a quick one.