Hans Chew's Recurring Images Of Tennessee Life Former Chattanoogan Releases New 78 LP

Just as a record spins on a turn table the experience and images of Hans Chew’s life are the recurring motifs of the songs he writes and performs. This week all his experiences have come together with the release of Chew’s first solo album, Tennessee & Other Stories.

Pure Music boosts MP3s

New program enhances playback of digital audio files, a service curiously lacking in otherwise tech-savvy times. Why in the name of Justin Bieber does a 99-cent iTunes track still have less than a tenth of the digital resolution of a CD?

A new kind of online Rdio [UPDATED]

While Spotify struggles to bring its free music-on-demand service to the U.S., a growing number of companies are filling the gap -- although not on the same terms. For example, Guvera offers a limited number of free downloads on demand to those who'll tolerate some targeted advertising (and who don't mind a less than comprehensive selection of tracks). MOG and Napster offer unlimited on-demand ...

MusOpen Uses Diaspora Model to Set Classical Music Rights Free

You may have heard about Diaspora , a Kickstarter project that aims to be an open replacement for Facebook users that don't like Facebook's dealings with privacy . There is another interesting Kickstarter project called MusOpen , which aims to buy and release rights to a large amount of music, or in other words, open source it.    A volunteer with the project named Ben Givens reached out to ...

Orchestra's ascendant Strauss slumps in a muddled recording

This time, the journey to the summit of Strauss' Alpine Symphony is obscured by fog and slowed by mud - which shouldn't happen when the trail guide is the Philadelphia Orchestra.