It’s the fifth-straight monthly decline for the gaming biz. Year-to-date sales are down 14% to $8.2 billion.
Tag: 08.14.09
A Confusing Report On Kids And Downloading Music
“Kids, it seems, like unlicensed services because they are free. But the report also acknowledges their usefulness in finding more obscure music and letting them listen to a band before they buy, so closing them down may actually make it harder for new artists to break through.”
Britain Now Has A Dance Czar – Does It Need One?
“This week … the Secretary of State for Health, announced that he had appointed the redoubtable Arlene Phillips as a ‘dance champion’, charged with getting the nation up on its flabby legs and into dance classes.” Yet “she would be the first to acknowledge that the nation is already in the grip of something like dance fever.”
Les Paul, 94, The Granddaddy Of Every Rock ‘n’ Roll Guitarist
A “virtuoso guitarist and inventor whose solid-body electric guitar and recording studio innovations changed the course of 20th-century popular music, … Mr. Paul was a remarkable musician as well as a tireless tinkerer.” In addition to the electric guitar, “he built the first eight-track multitrack recorder. Each track could be recorded and altered separately, without affecting the others. The machine ushered in the modern recording era.”