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...musically, they are a talented bunch. But what makes OAR such a phenomenon, what drives teenagers in droves to their shows and inspires college students to blast their MP3s as they drink themselves into oblivion, is precisely that hint—as their name suggests—of a revolution. But OAR is not a revolution against anything concrete. It is not against governments or against people. They do not rage against the machine. Instead, they sing of a struggle that rages within ourselves. OAR is born of a revolution against everything that is superfluous to who we are?...
...have nothing better to do with their time than share their musical wisdom with the world. Even if you've never wielded a microphone, you can set up your own Live365.com channel. You can select the option to apply for a station on the site, free, and upload MP3s containing as many songs as you want. You can replace old MP3s with new ones to keep the flow of music fresh, or allow the same selections to repeat ad infinitum. Laws designed to ensure that Web radio can't function as a Napsterish file-sharing system forbid you to broadcast...
...rate, I’m thinking about buying a few new Spanish CDs, or I’m sure I can find some mp3s on the Internet. Globalization is now allowing bad Spanish music to seep into the States. But my cultural revelation is that bad music isn’t about homogenization. It’s about universality...
...tech world. Everything in this new Utopia is a lot more fragile than it seems on the surface, as any ex-dotcommer will tell you. But that's what happens when you construct an environment for analog-minded humans made entirely of ones and zeros. Take all those MP3s you downloaded or ripped from your CDs, for example. You think you're hearing the music as it was originally intended? You're not. MP3s are built on something called psycho-acoustic algorithms. These little beauties save a ton of file space by making your brain fill in the blanks. They...
...Some hyper-sensitive people say they get headaches from listening to MP3s because of the psycho-acoustics; that it isn't quite blasting out the right frequency for their ears. I don't doubt it's possible that some thousandth of a percent of users are affected. Just as I don't doubt my lottery number might come up, or that I might have touched enough laundered linens and walked on enough carpets to blow up my Palm and PC. In a universe where nothing from the speed of light on down is stable, not even a Palm Pilot...