Apple iPod

Does Spotify Mean the End of the iPod and Your Music Collection?

By Dan Moore When I bought my first iPod--this was the first iPod, when the scroll wheel actually spun around--it was a severe blow to my nerd-cred, which I guarded pretty jealously at the time. (It was the only cred I had.) Relying on iTunes and its untouchable database to maintain my MP3 collecti ... More >>

Modern Terrorism Wants to Kill You with Laughs

Comedy goes ka-boom

Grouplove

Live: Macaulay Culkin Lets His iPod Do The Talking

​Macaulay Culkin's iPod (le) poisson rouge Thursday, December 8 Better than: I would say Elijah Wood's iPod but I don't think that's true. The giddiness set in about four hours before Macaulay Culkin's party at (le) poisson rouge's gallery bar last night—yes, that Macaulay Culkin. Upon ... More >>

The iPod Turns 10

Every day I'm shufflin'

Undercover Cops Are Roaming the Subway, Pretending to Nap

MattHurst/Flickr​Here is an interesting trend in police work, as reported by Metro: Transit cops, dressed like just regular old you and me commuter, will pretend to fall asleep on the subway only to open an eye and quickly bust pickpockets (really, we should just start calling these people out ... More >>

The Submarines

HiFi Gives Birth to EL DJ 2.0, The Latest Version of Its Once Groundbreaking Digital Jukebox

Your grandfather's iPod.​In 2003, the bar HiFi in the East Village introduced a new proprietary PC-powered 26,000-song MP3-playing machine that was so ahead of its time, it made healines in several publications, from Wired to The New York Times. Now, the bar has launched the latest version of ... More >>

Apple to Announce New and Improved Version of Now-Outdated Thing You Just Purchased on September 1st

​Does Apple really have to throw themselves a whole big event party thing every time they roll out a product? It's not that they aren't informative -- they are -- it's more that they feel like a company who just sold you a $500 piece of electronics which now makes you more available to people ... More >>

Police Seeking Witnesses in Attack of Riverside Park Jogger

The NYPD is looking for witnesses to a robbery and assault that took place in Riverside Park at 6 a.m. on July 5. A 19-year-old woman identified as a Columbia University affiliate was jogging near the tennis courts at West 120th Street when an unidentified assailant pushed her into a wall -- causing ... More >>

Update: Police Sketch Released in Riverside Jogger Attack

​Earlier today, we reported that the NYPD is looking for witnesses to a July 5 robbery and assault in Riverside Park; now, a police sketch of the suspect has been released. The victim, a 19-year-old woman, was jogging near the tennis courts at West 120th Street when her assailant pushed her in ... More >>

Nightmares Before Halloween 3: iPhone Costume

Our 10 Worst Halloween Costumes list and all its updates did not take into account the geek community, some members of which have actually devised a giant iPhone you can wear. It is powered by a car battery that goes between the wearer's legs, and can take a feed from an iPod so you can show an ac ... More >>

Acrylics

STREET BEATS

Step outside for more than 800 concerts

SHOCK & AWE

Here's your mission, if you're willing to accept it

Peter Bjorn & John+Chairlift

'Mister Saturday Night Presents Chairlift'

iPod-Jacking Cabbie Willing to Deal; Victim Has Other iPods

The Post follows up on that strange taxi story we told you about last week, in which a cabbie forced a young woman whose credit card wouldn't work in his reader to surrended her iPod as recompense for the fare. The cabbie is identified as Mohammed Islam, and says he's willing to return the iPod in e ... More >>

Donkey Punch Exceeds Its Smutty Titling with Workmanlike Thriller

Taxi Driver Extorts iPod from Cashless Girl, 20

Here's one of those heartwarming stories that show what New York's all about, courtesy of Elliott.com: a young woman took a taxi to JFK and found her credit card wouldn't work in the cab's card reader, nor did she have enough cash to pay. The cabbie summoned Port Authority police, who "told her tha ... More >>

This Week in Booze

Shine, Mister? Pete Hamill Solves The Economic Crisis

GUITAR HEROES

Big names in rock celebrate the beloved Jazzmaster

DIGITAL DOOM

The future of theater is right here

THE LIMIT TO YOUR LOVE

Feist is undaunted

MASS MOVEMENT

No rants—just rave

The Death of the Wedding DJ?

Divorcing the iPod

An ascendant speed-metal goddess upgrades her accessories

Macbeth

Live: Mark Ronson at the Apple Store

A Road-Trip Playlist

The Field: Techno Perfectly Timed

Red Hot Summer Nights

Though not exactly The Beatles or The Wall, call this cheery double album The Barbecue

Music

An Interactive Box From Beijing Provides Loops to Make Fetishists Swoon

Metal tyros steal great riffs; sadly make words audible

Left-Handed

High Fidelity

From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes

Fade Out

The first rule of iPod club; now introducing Mr. Pussy Man

Chance Encounter

The new iPod has no screen and plays songs randomly. How does it feel to be a hostage?

Pay To Play

The Pixies lead a mixed bag of Apple-only mini-albums

Fair Useless

Corporations vainly scheme to the beat of a different DRM

Lost and Found

Fashion week diversions with Derrick May, Nick Zinner, and the Donnas

iPod Steps to the Mic

Testing, testing! Gizmos for turning your pocket player into a recorder

iPod, Annotated

An itinerant inkster bites Apple in NOHO—and the public bites back

iPod Junkie

Where and how to get high off the hottest little gadget in the universe

Pod People

This Valentine's Day, the fastest way to the heart may be through the earbuds

Cheap Beats

Doggy Style

PCs in a 'Pod