The CD that you could be holding in your hand is the very first appearance of Al Staehely’s 1982 solo album on compact disc – and it’s about time. The collection of recordings, originally released in Europe on Polydor Records, has been deserving of the compact disc treatment ever since the inception of the CD. But Al’s solo album was originally released on vinyl - just a couple of years before the compact disc era began.
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Bon Jovi have been touring since last February and before that, they spent a lot of time in the studio, recording their latest record, The Circle, so it should come as no surprise that once their 2011 trek ends in July, they are going to take a break.
Cloud Music: How Hard Do Online Streaming Services Rock?
Cloud music services promise to rock the digital world and reinvent the way we discover new artists, songs and albums. By saving your music online, and letting you instantly stream tunes anytime, anywhere over the Internet to PCs or mobile devices, they simultaneously eliminate concerns with storage, synching and piracy.
The field continues to boom for cloud music services, which let you house a single library of tunes or an entire digital music collection online, then access it on-demand from dozens of gadgets (smartphone, tablet PC, portable media player, etc.). But while services like Spotify, Amazon Cloud Player, Mog and Rdio have millions of fans singing a happy tune, record labels and execs fear their growing power to upend the digital music industry. Who can blame them? With even Apple and Google now eyeing the streaming online music space, iTunes may soon be the least of their worries.
In the first episode of our new running video series, Gear Up, we review the best cloud music services to discover whether or not they'll have you singing a happy tune. And, of course, we consider just how likely they are to really represent the future of digital entertainment.
April 15, 8:30 AM ET | By Scott Steinberg
