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Obscure Canadian Band Mistakes Spam for 100K Illegal Downloads

According to their Twitter page, One Soul Thrust is a "groove-oriented purist rock band from Canada," with "a female singer who whispers and wails like an angel sighing sass in your ear." But One Soul Thrust aren't very well-known. They have fewer than 300 followers on Twitter, and their YouTube channel features a single video that's been viewed barely 300 times. Last week, though, their ...

Windows Media Player Thinks George W. Bush Memoir is an Anti-Bush Album

If you happened to have purchased George W. Bush's new 'Decision Points' audiobook (and let's be honest, who hasn't?), you may have noticed some curious chapter titles when you synced it with your PC. Instead of scrolling through Dubya's lovably punchy chapters, like 'Running,' 'Personnel,' or 'Stem Cells,' you may have seen tracks named 'Weapon of Fear,' 'Bush It,' and 'Innocent Children Die.' If ...

'When it Drops' Gives You the Latest Movie, Music and Book Releases

We all have our own favorite sites to consult for the latest movie, music or video game releases. With a cleanly designed site called 'When it Drops,' though, Web surfers can now find all this information with one click of a mouse. Each week, When it Drops gives a snapshot of the latest movies, DVDs, albums, books and video games to hit the market that week, as well as the products released the ...

Martin Skelly's Retro Playlist Player Makes Us Miss Albums

As much as we love digital technology here at Switched, we still cling to a certain amount of nostalgia for the simpler days; when the photorealism of a video game didn't matter and when we all enjoyed full-length albums instead of shuffling on our iPods like we have extreme cases of ADHD. While we're not about to pay for our hundreds of gigabytes worth of music to be converted to vinyl, we're ...

iTunes Losing Favor Among Artists?

It used to be that if you liked a single track from an artist, you were stuck either paying for the full album or buying a woefully overpriced single. In the age of iTunes, a single track is just $.99; it's about the same price whether you buy the whole album at once or individual tracks. This means fans can more easily pick and choose, but it also means a lot less money for artists who tend to ...