Fresh-Out-the-Box!

Musical Road September 21, 2008

The BBC has a story on how “a section of Avenue K in a Californian desert town uses grooves cut into the road surface to play the Lone Ranger theme to cars driving along it.”
It’s now been resurfaced as local residents weren’t so happy about the sounds going on all the time.

Here’s one of the originals in Japan:

And an ITN piece on them in Japan, including some shots of the grooves that make the sounds:

Amazon Launch New Vinyl Shop September 19, 2008

Mike Allen, who is a former vice president of EMI says, “There’s a reaction against the commoditization of music that downloading represents- With vinyl there’s something that has innate value — a physical object.”

Amazon Launch New Vinyl Shop :: Bodytonic