Verizon Wireless has signed an agreement with Activision, creators of Guitar Hero III to deliver the game to users’ mobile phones. can see it now:some young (or not-so-young) player gets so absorbed in Guitar Hero while driving down the road… Read the details at futuremusic.com
The continuing decline in CD sales and subsequent drop in floorspace devoted to CDs remains in the news, with Wall Street analyst Richard Greenfield again pointing to year-over-year declines of 25% or more. DigitalMusicNews.com has the rather bleak picture.
Got room on your bookmarks bar for another music site? Take a look at Songza.com, which bills itself as music search engine and jukebox. It’ll search the web for whatever song you want, gives you a list of matches and then plays the one your click. Simple, eh?
Being that it’s Saturday, over at the C-J, music writer J. L. Puckett has his Digital Music column, wherein he explores – for Gannett brass, anyway – that new notion of ‘digital music.’ He suggests at look at PunkTV.ca; mentioned a new Silverchair release, and tags Swervedriver with the ‘Left of the Dial’ moniker.