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Guns N’ Roses Debuts New Album on Myspace Music – First in 17 Years

Nerd Grind — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:19:15 +0000

At 9 PM PST last night, Guns N’ Roses debuted their first album in 17 years on Myspace Music. The album entitled Chinese Democracy, is their first album since 1991. Myspace users and fans are able to listen to, but not download, the album in its entirety on the group’s Myspace page.

Illegal copies of the album have been floating around BitTorrent for the past couple weeks but last night was the official ’soft launch’ of the album. The album is available to preview in 25 countries including: US, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, UK and Japan.

It’s important to remember that downloading the music on BitTorrent is illegal, but listening to it on Myspace from the fans website is perfectly legal. The CD album goes on sale November 23rd at Bestbuy.

ZOOZ Mobile Releases ZOOZBeat Music Studio Application on Nokia N95

Nerd Grind — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:10:05 +0000

ZOOZ Mobile has just released a Nokia N95-compatible version of it’s ZOOZBeat application. The app turns your phone into a gesture-based mobile music studio. The application is already available for iPhone and the Nokia release comes as quite a surprise.

It makes perfect use of the built-in accelerometers of the Nokia N95. Pick an instrument, and tap or tilt to create your own songs. It’s really that easy. A lite version of the program is available for free with the full-fledged program costing $2.99.

New Beatles box set – gigantic – comes with 120 GB iPod

Nerd Grind — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:39:24 +0000

Goo goo g’joo g’joob! Bloomingdale’s says it wants a revolution with it’s new limited edition Beatles box set. The set is absolutely massive. It includes thirteen original Beatles’ CDs, an engraved guitar pick, two masters and the "Love" CD. Only 2,500 of the sets are being made, however. All you need is love, and $795 bucks, in order to get one.

Also, you may have noticed the fab four and their team of musically inclined lawyers have not been exactly forthright with their love of the iTunes music store. Don’t worry. The set also includes an engraved 120GB iPod so you can rip here, there and everywhere until you achieve happiness.

XS Games releases “Popstar” for Wii

Nerd Grind — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:14:50 +0000

XS Games has just released a Wii game called "Popstar." It’s sort of like "Guitar Hero" but instead of a guitar with four colored buttons on it you get a Wiimote condom with four colored buttons on it. The game has you performing various pop songs by pushing the buttons in tandem with nunchuck attachment. Before you open your window and scream "We’ve seen this before fifty thousand times", word on the street is that it’s actually fun.

MTV’s Patrick Klepek went hands on with the device and did say the functionality was a bit uncomfortable though. Still, the game has an estimated retail price of $59.99. That’s a heck of a lot less than the $200 you’ll be forking down for "Guitar Hero: World Tour."

Tesla is Most Excellent

Nerd Grind — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:03:22 +0000

Click on the Picutre of Tesla and check out the cool vid.

Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils playing Mario Bros theme song at the 2007 Lightning on the Lawn Teslathon sponsored by DC Cox (Resonance Research Corp) in Baraboo WI. The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating. There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark. They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software.

J.Lo via Flash Drive

Nerd Grind — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:59:47 +0000

J. Lo will be releasing an album via flash drive, and not a cheap one either. Gresso and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have come up with this idea to distribute Lopez’s "Brave" album on the Adam&Eve flash drive, which features 1GB of storage and is crafted from African Mahogany or African Blackwood. It is supposed to sell for around $70 and methinks that just might hurt sales.

Pricey Music

Nerd Grind — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:19:37 +0000

If you love music beyond all else – and have cash lying around to the tune of six or seven thousand dollars, then this is for you!

Meet Qsonix Q110 muisc management system. Ready for you in 250GB, 500GB or 1TB flavors, it has front access USB / accessory ports, four discrete analog audio outputs for multi-room applications and IR remote control capabilities.

The bundled software adds "a fully integrated MusicGiants HD Download Store using Qsonix’s Album Browser drag-and-drop interface."

ContraStream for Indie

Nerd Grind — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:34:01 +0000

Watch for ContraStream, a new music discovery engine due to launch on September 3.

Geared toward indie music lovers, artists can their upload music for others to vote on in a Digg-style format. And to â€œkeep the music indie,â€ users are encouraged to flag music that is â€œtoo mainstream.â€

Something from The Last Mimsy

Nerd Grind — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:09:12 +0000

Here’s a wild idea for a design concept: put together a speaker with 12 sides, otherwise known as a dodecahedron, and you’ll get a 360-degree blast of music. These spacy-looking Quasar speakers send their sound all over the place, so no matter where you are in the room, their sweet audio will be spilling out from within their crystalline confines, heading right for your ears.

awesome.

18K iPod Shuffle

Nerd Grind — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:58:38 +0000

This would be the first on the list of things to buy if I was to ever was to sideline as a pimp. The gold-colored iPod shuffle was given a tour through Germany by German Company Xexoo as a way to piggyback on the success gained from the gold (old-school) iPod. And yes, that is real 18 carat gold. And no, it isn’t cheap. It is said to cost about 14,000 EUR, or $19,343 for us yanks. If you’re impressed enough by a precious metal that you will gladly shell out thousands of dollars for 1GB of music, then by all means, this is right player for you.

But, wait! There’s more! If gold isn’t quite up to your standard (I’m more a fan of silver, myself), you will have another option for your iPod in the near future. Just think…diamonds.

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