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Some of the reasons for Jack's surge are self-evident. Listeners like shorter commercial breaks and more songs. And Jack is centered on the '80s, which is still fascinating kids in high school and college. But the programming is shrewd in the way it affirms the identity of its listeners. At its heart, Jack is a nostalgia station for Generation X, but it disguises that fact with carefully selected obscure tunes (Walking Away by Information Society, Pop Goes the Weasel by 3rd Bass) that make listeners feel erudite and hip. Then there are the laconic, faux-rebellious promos...
Perry brags that unlike previous '80s-based stations that only played rock, Jack mixes the broad array of metal, R&B and synth that truly represented the era. In high school cafeterias, the differences between those genres once defined which lunch table you sat at, but now any song from the era brings back muted, whitewashed memories of youth...
Unlike iTunes, which sells songs, Snocap is really a digital middleman, monitoring audio files as they are downloaded over music services that use Snocap's system. Its main tool is a registry that stores music and acts as a global clearinghouse to identify tracks. Snocap is working with Mashboxx, headed by another veteran of the file-sharing wars, former Grokster president and outspoken recording industry critic Wayne Rosso; his company offers users legal file-sharing software. When a music fan locates a song on another computer in the network, Snocap checks to see if it is registered in its database...
...female should be. In the study of more than 5,700 women over age 35, those who couldn't reach 85% of their expected exercise capacity in a treadmill test were twice as likely to die within eight years as their fitter peers. --By Sora Song...
...trend in which grunge-ish bands crank up the elastic disco bass and coax fans to dance is rock's most pleasant development since Creed broke up. This bouncy tune about a woman with "a million ways to be cruel" is the catchy song of the summer...