Waxy’s Andy Baio has taken a statistical look at how the record industry has changed in the last fifty years, and it looks like there’s a good reason why you hate so much mainstream pop music: the variety of pop music is less than half of what it was in the sixties:

According to Billboard, the [...]

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, shipments of vinyl LPs jumped more than 36 percent from 2006 to 2007, growing to more than 1.3 million. Shipments of CDs dropped more than 17 percent during the same period, to 511 million, as they lost some ground to digital formats
Nearly 450 million CDs were sold [...]

Apple has released a video introduction to using the iPhone, below.
Based on what I’ve seen, it looks seriously droolworthy.
This is what cell phones are going to look like in five years, intelligently combining mobile features with music and Internet services. It’s too bad we’ll have to wait five years for something like this to [...]

 

 Getting Started With The iPhone: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Apple has announced June 29th as the debut date for its iPhone.
The iPhone combines three products — a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a cutting-edge Internet communications device. Based on what we’ve seen so far, it looks like it will redefine the state of the art of both mobile phones and [...]

 

 Apple iPhone [0:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

UK electronic collective, Urban Myth Club—comprised of electronica artist Dezz and Hollywood film composer Stephen Barton—has released its first full-length recording on TRL Music in the spring of 2006. North American radio airplay followed, as well as debut appearances at Glastonbury and the Big Chill festivals.
Their debut single gate-crashed into Apple’s iTunes Top 30 on [...]

Apple has announced that the iTunes Music Store now has over one million songs available for download in the US, becoming the first and only online digital music service to offer consumers a million song catalog.
The iTunes Music Store features music from all five major record labels and over 600 leading independent labels from around [...]

Apple today announced that iPod mini, the smallest portable music player ever to hold up to 1,000 CD-quality songs, will be available internationally on July 24.
The iPod mini offers an appealing combination of ultra-portable design, style, song capacity, ease-of-use and audio performance. “The iPod mini has been a smash hit in the US, and we’re [...]

Instant Music is here. The rise of desktop music production has completely changed the way music is created and distributed. The dozens of remixes of Howard Dean’s infamous “yeaaaaaah” speech show that anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can now quickly and easily publish music to the world.
The problems of creation, recording, mastering, [...]