If you use Zune and you haven’t bought the new Mastodon album, Crack The Skye then you’ll be pleased to know that Zune has exclusive content for Mastodon as part of their Ignition Artist feature.
As part of the Ignition program, Mastodon will release a series of exclusive features on Zune Marketplace, Zune.net, MSN and Xbox LIVE surrounding the release of their latest album Crack The Skye. The exclusive features include an album download with exclusive track“Divinations (Live)” starting March 31, an editorial track-by-track “Breakdown” of the album by the band (available April 7), a playlist curated by the band …read more

Got an email this morning from a reader that, well, is a bit disgusted with the way metal is ignored and/or mixed in with the rest of rock by the corporate media.
Recently I have been forced to upgrade my current music player software (Zune) and although the new software is slightly more stable, I have been less than enthusiastic about it. I recently went to their “marketplace” to check out their selection of metal and was not very surprised that I had to go through the Rock genre to even see metal as an option. If I wanted …read more

I got my birthday present  last Friday. A bit early but who’s counting days. I debated buying the iPod Nano because I like the size but I didn’t like the size of the memory. 8 gigs just didn’t quite seem enough and I figured for another 50 bucks why not get the iPod Classic 80 gb.
A new feature called “Coverflow” allows you to flip through your library by viewing the album cover. This is all great just as long as you have an album cover for most of your music, otherwise you’ll be working hard to add it later to …read more