Digital Music Players

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

100 & Single: Can Katy Perry Turn The States' Post-Christmas No. 1 Race Into Something UKrazy?

​Thanks to her husband, Katy Perry considers herself as an honorary Brit. But as the most frequent current inhabitant of the Billboard charts, she must wish we were all anglophiles. If only America had a Christmas No. 1 competition as rabid and media-fueled as Old Blighty's! Katy would have t ... More >>

Cash In Now, Honey: The 11 Best Uses Of Music In Commercials This Year

We are adidas' friends. You'll never be shoeless again. ​Right now in a record store (probably in Seattle or maybe in Austin), two people are flipping through used vinyl and talking about music. Inevitably, one of them will turn to the other, pick up a record and accuse that musician or band o ... More >>

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 >>

Holiday Guide: Today's Hot Gadgets Will Be Tomorrow's Landfill

The fire next time

The iPod Turns 10

Every day I'm shufflin'

Anthony Braxton

Surfer Blood+And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

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 >>

ORGANIC CAKE

A solar-powered album?

Lil Wayne Will Serve Out the Remainder of His Time at Rikers in Solitary Confinement

​Back in May, we reported that Lil Wayne had been caught hiding an iPod charger and pair of headphones in his cell (specifically, and somewhat tragically, in a discarded snack bag in his trashcan; the iPod itself was found being held by a neighboring inmate). Early reports suggested that Wayne ... 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 >>

ROCK ON

Mike Todaro's Power Balladz

Lil Wayne Facing Potentially Serious Consequences Over Jail Contraband

​As we reported on Tuesday, Lil Wayne was caught this week at Rikers in possession of various illegal electronics--in this case, headphones, a charger, and, eventually, the MP3 player to which they belonged. Our source pegged the crime as an infraction--possession of contraband--but had no wor ... More >>

Breaking: Lil Wayne Caught With Unauthorized Electronics in His Jail Cell [Updated]

​Corrections sources are telling the Voice that rapper Lil Wayne was caught today at Rikers in possession of "unauthorized earphones and a charger" during a search. An investigation is underway to find the missing device (almost certainly an iPod or other kind of MP3 player) that goes with the ... More >>

SWEDISH DELIGHT

Jazz-electro-pop from a Scandinavian songbird

'Girls & Boys Presents Peter Hook'

Acrylics

IT'S OH-SO-QUIET

Listen to the city—it's trying to tell you something

'Mister Saturday Night Presents Chairlift'

James Taylor Intervenes, Cabbie Finally Returns iPod

The much-covered saga of the young woman who couldn't pay her taxi fare and was forced to give up her iPod instead has, after hopping the traffic divider and making a U-turn, rolled slowly to a halt. First, folksinger James Taylor, upon learning that his songs were among the treasures lost with Nata ... More >>

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 >>

VINYL MANIA

So many records, only three days

Welcome to Subway Cell Hell?

The Death of the Wedding DJ?

Divorcing the iPod

An ascendant speed-metal goddess upgrades her accessories

Live: Mark Ronson at the Apple Store

A Road-Trip Playlist

Music

Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Ostracism

An Interactive Box From Beijing Provides Loops to Make Fetishists Swoon

Burn Baby Burn

Earphone Heads

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

Next Tel

The days of old-fashioned phones are numbered. People, it's time to VoIP.

An iPod for Your Eyes

Portable video looks great, and in a couple of years it may be affordable

Fossil Fool

Palm pilots head for Jurassic Park—and that means bargains for you.

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