I am a serious Audiophile. I download the HIGHEST quality music I can, even if it means another hour of two of searching.  I also enjoy looking for different ways to enjoy my music! Whether it be with a new pair of headphones, a slightly better sound card, or adjusting my equalizer a bit to make each song sound as good as it can be, I’m crazy about it. When I heard about a game, advertised on STEAM, that revolves around music, I had to see what it was. This game, named “Audiosurf”, is simply brilliant. Combining game play that can be enjoyed on an old machine, or a new machine, it is visually pleasing, and allows you the joy of selecting music from your computer, or suggested playlists that you can download.

A unique scoring system revolving around collecting small colored pegs on a track, allows you to see your score at the end, and compiles a list (if you’re online) of others who have played that very same song, ranks you based on your score and displays it to the world!  Various play styles that change based on the type of vehicle you choose, and 3 general levels of difficulty, mixed with the challenge each song brings, makes this game a really great way to enjoy music, get into it, and be competitive against your friends!  To find out more about the gameplay, go here

http://www.audio-surf.com/

I recently read this article and thought it was pretty cool.

Napster on Tuesday open its MP3 download store in an effort to compete with Apple’s iTunes Store that dominates the Music Download Stores through out the Word Wide Web. Napster has launched there DRM-Free MP3 Download store which contains more than 6 million DRM-free download songs. Users can download these DRM-Free songs on to almost any MP3 Player even the iPod and iPhone.

Songs on Napster is still going to sell these songs at 99 cents a song but since its DRM-Free you can download them and copy them over and over. You can also uses these in videos and stuff. Its pretty much the same thing as Apple iTunes Plus store, but Apple is restricting the number of computers a user can have registered to play songs purchased from the iTunes Store, Many users complained about this, but Apple has not nothing about this yet.

Napster says it’s 6 Million DRM-Free song catalog features songs from all major labels, as well as thousands of Indies. Napster will still offer subscriptions to users who would rather pay the monthly fee.

Many Music Download Sites have been trying to tackle Apple’s dominance in the online music business, so Napster and Amazon have joins the list to try to take Apple. Amazon also recently Launched its MP3 store in September 2007.

Even so, Apple still manage to be the number one music retailer in the U.S. in April 2008, beating Wal-Mart, Is it because of Apples popularity?

Tell me what you think all about this.

Hey everyone,

Today I am going to write a small little review on a local band called In Kahootz.  So lets start?

Well they play mostly classic rock and blues and their quite good at it actually.  The band members are, Dan/Guitarist, Matt/Drums, Jim/Bass and they also all do Vocals.  The guitarist Dan, hes the one that inspired me to play the guitar.  he’s also the Tech Guy at our school so I get to hang with him almost everyday.  They play at local places like Bars, and stuff like that.  If we ever had a party I would be honored to ask him to play at our house.  The other 2 members I don’t even know. But hopefully someday I will.  They do have a Myspace, hopefully someday they will have their own website.  So check out their Myspace (below) for a few songs of theirs and where they are going to be playing next.

In Kahootz Myspace Page

Additionally,  Check out their full song list here.

I also fully support In Kahootz and Would be glad to sponsor them someday

Cheers!

Yes that is right it is spring now, snow is melting, birds are chirping, the smell of fresh air And for a lot of people its when their winter blues falls off, like mine.  I haven’t done a thing all winter and it sucks.  I tried to lose weight in the winter time but it was just too damn cold in the morning so hopefully getting into the spring weather I will be starting this again, you know, I have like 9.2 weeks left of school that is a pretty good goal time to lose weight. If I did I would probably lose like 30 pounds or I hope so Its going to be 50 degrees today which is awesome! So i don’t really know what else to talk about.  I’m going to write a review about a Local band that influenced me to play the electric guitar. We will talk about that later.  but for now, Nick’ World!,  Nick’ World!, Party Time, Excellent!