links for 2010-11-22

Basically it’s literally a war between bands and their engineers and labels to make their music sound as loud as possible in order to get an edge on the radio mainly, basically by turning up the volume as much as physically possible on the mixer without it causing obvious distortion.

Enter the iTunes store and the wares of only one band are prominently on display in the run-up to Christmas 2010: the Beatles, a group that split up in 1970 but once again brought to our attention because last week their music went on sale in a legal digital format for the first time.

Jay-Z: "No, I was actually honored that, you know, someone took the time to mash those records up with Beatles records. I was honored to be on, you know, quote-unquote the same song with the Beatles."