Apple iTunes raises wholesale price to 70 cents in USA - CD Baby artists now make 63.7 cents per song through iTunes USA after CD Baby's 9% cut. The price is still 99 cents for consumers. Very nice.

An interview I did with Dave Slusher for his July 23rd Clambake podcast is online now.

Here's a video history of the Amen break. It's an interesting story and then it turns into an anti-copyright rant at the end which I'm not feeling. I'm not sure how The Winstons all quitting music and getting nothing while countless artists and companies get rich using their recording is supposed to be some happy ending that everyone trying to make a living in music should be shooting for. "Hey kids, give up the copyright on your music and you too can bust out of the music business and wind up with a PHD in political science!"

Without some sort of success story for The Winstons I think all the example does is serve as a musician horror story: how you can make something that impacts millions of lives and still not be able to support yourself. Spooky!

Electronic Mods for Guitar - a good resource for modifying the guts of your guitar.

Ableton Live 5 beta - get a fully functional beta version of Ableton Live 5 here. [via]

Singer launches career on eBay - "A young Indian singer has managed to raise enough money to release his debut album by selling shares in his future royalties on the internet site eBay."

MP3 Turns 10 Years Old - before that it was ".bit".

A Night at the Feelies - I love this Bob the Angry Flower cartoon.

I was going to feel real bad about making noise in my new neighborhood, but now that I know every other house has a barking dog tied up in its back yard all day maybe I don't care.

Psychedelic Christian Radio - MP3s of Pastor John Rydgren's radio spots from the 60s. Crazy and awesome.

Half-Rack Hack - a camera mini-tripod modified to support half-rack effect devices.

NINJAM is out. (I wrote about it earlier here.) Due to moving I haven't been able to use the latest versions, but I assume it rocks. The GUI looks slick to boot. Congrats, Justin. It'll be fun to see what people get up to with this great tool.

Images of cassettes - it's weird that pictures of cassette tapes can be so nostalgic.

Cringely Podcasting and Blogging - interesting column by Cringely about the market demand for (video) podcasting and blogging and how it's changing his gig.

Holy crap, moving was more of a pain than I thought it would be. The new appliances were all damaged (the side of the stove was falling off, for instance), the new satellite received died two days after being installed and the Internet took a week to start working. Still waiting on appliances and my email. All I do anymore is talk to customer support.

Nine Inch Nails Interview - Good interview where Trent talks about a lot of the gear he used to make his albums.

Graphing Your Taste in Music - Andrew's guide to cross-referencing your iTunes song list with Amazon related items to create a big graph of your musical taste. Very neat.

iTunes 4.9 Overview - a good rundown of the new features of iTunes, including the new podcasting support.

If I missed your remix, please send it in again because I have no mind:

• Bad Attraction (earjamm mix)
• Borderline (DU mix)
• Borderline (teru mix)
• Dirtbag (teru mix)
• I Think I Started a Trend (teru mix)
• Making Me Nervous (cotxetxe mix)
• Making Me Nervous (Tom Whitwell mix)
• Overreacting (Nosve mix)
• Overreacting (MC Jack in the Box mix)

Thanks to all the remixers as always. You can get the source to a bunch of my tracks here. You can email them to me or put them on my CC Mixter page for instant gratification.

Crimewire is Louise W. Klinker's proposed Limewire skin that reorganizes the P2P app into a different light. For instance instead of there being a "Library" of what you've downloaded, it's called your "Criminal record". Crimewire would track how much you owe each band and record label and you have a Justification Profile:

The last new function is the "Justification Profile". This section is the most fictional part of CrimeWire and based upon a point system. When you input your salary, number of records in collection, amount of vinyl in collection, number of concerts you go to per year etc. it returns the amount of money it is fair for you to "steal" for per day.

I like it, it's pretty funny. I'd also like to see aggregated stats of how much all downloads on the service are costing individual artists and labels, damage you're doing to the economy, the amount you would be fined for the material you've uploaded and maybe how much you're hurting Coldplay's feelings.