Today is apparently Vinyl Record Day, 131 years since the phonograph was invented. According to the web site it's partly a day to enjoy great music, and partly to increase awareness of a large amount of vinyl material that has not yet been transferred to CD for reasons of record company economy.

Of course, mere transfer to CD wouldn't please people like Neil Young but transfer to a digital format at good quality would be a fine start.

Anyway if you have the equipment and the time, it might be a fine day to replace the vacuum tubes and stylus, get out the oscilloscope to check that your turntable is running at the correct speed, and savour the analogue warmth.

Apparently there is a film coming called "Before the Music Dies" I stumbled upon it's promo site which has a number of excerpts from the film.

Whilst I know there have been various articles in The Word about the effect of Autotune and studio technology on pop, here it is demonstrated in no uncertain terms.

Last night the BBC were reporting that several "classic" (more than 10 years old) Christmas songs were charting thanks to sales through various download sites and the change in the rules regarding chart entry.

To what extent does this kill the record company concept of re-releasing the same songs every other year for the Christmas season?

It hadn't been my intention to post anything here, but... oh well.

This is filched from the blog "Create Digital Music." During a recent performance of set-closer "Jump," Van Halen's playback system unfortunately changes sample rate of it's own accord, which basically means that it plays faster than it is supposed to.

Luckily the whole thing was captured, including copious introductions.

I'm not entirely sure why they decided to not have a keyboard player there in person. Such is rock.