New Release Tuesday February 8th, 2011

All New Releases are available at iTunes Store Music now!!

And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead… – Tao of the Dead
Emily Arin – Patch Of Land
Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore
Cut Copy – Zonoscope
Esben & The Witch – Violet Cries
Dave Hause [The Loved Ones] – Resolutions
Lionize – Destruction Manual
Motorhead – The World Is Yours
Thompson Square – Thomson Square
Teddy Thompson – Bella
Yanni – Truth Of Touch

New Release Tuesday February 1st, 2011

All New Releases are available at iTunes Store Music now!!

The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
Junk Culture – Summer Friends
The Dirtbombs – Party Store
The Go! Team – Rolling Blackouts
Tommy Guerrero – Lifeboats And Follies
Ricky Martin – Musica + Alma + Sexo
Men – Talk About Body
George Michael – Faith [Remastered]
Red – Until We Have Faces
Todd Snider – The Storyteller [Live]
Twitch The Ripper – Bodiless

New Release Tuesday January 25th, 2011

All New Releases are available at iTunes Store Music now!!

Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore
Chikita Violenta – Tre3s
Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings
Cold War Kids – Mine Is Yours
Amos Lee – Mission Bell
Death – Spiritual, Mental, Physical
Deerhoof – Deerhoof Vs. Evil
Destroyer – Kaputt
The Ex – Catch My Shoe
Fujiya & Miyagi – Ventriloquizzing
Gang of Four – Content
The Get Up Kids – There Are Rules
Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
Wanda Jackson – The Party Ain’t Over
Monotonix – Not Yet
Praxis [Buckethead] – Profanation: Preparation For A Coming Darkness
Winsin & Yandel – Los Vaqueros: El Reseo

New Release Tuesday January 18th, 2011

All New Releases are available at iTunes Store Music now!!

Gregg Allman – Low Country Blues
Ian Axel – This Is The New Year
Braids – Native Speaker
The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
Steve Lukather – All’s Well That Ends Well
Lady Lazarus – Mantic
Neon Quartet – Catch Me
Robert Pollard – Space City Kicks
The Script – Science & Faith
Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers – Teenage and Torture
Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
Social Distortion – Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes
Tennis – Cape Dory
Young Prisms – Friends For Now

New Release Tuesday January 11th, 2011

All New Releases are available at iTunes Store Music now!!

Cage The Elephant – Thank You, Happy Birthday
Cake – Showroom Of Compassion
Nikki & Rich – Everything
Rye Rye – Go! Pop! Bang!
Steel Magnolia – Steel Magnolia
Wire – Red Barked Tree
Yo – Gotti

New Release Tuesday December 21st, 2010

All New Releases are available at iTunes Store Music now!!

Avant – The Letter
Keyshia Cole – Calling All Hearts
Duran Duran – All You Need Is Now [iTunes/CD - Feb 2011]
Jamie Foxx – Best Night Of My Life
Ghostface KIllah – The Apollo Kids
Hex Hector – Allura
Keri Hilson – No Boys Allowed

New Release Tuesday December 14th, 2010

All New Releases are available at iTunes Store Music now!!

9th Wonder – 9th’s Opus: It’s A Wonderful World Music Group
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – III/IV
Crystal Bowersox – Farmer’s Daughter
Ciara – Basic Instinct
The Damned Things – Ironiclast
Diddy and Dirty Money – The Last Train To Paris
Michael Jackson – Michael
R. Kelly – Love Letter
Tank – Now Or Never
Young Jeezy – TM 103

New Release Tuesday December 7th, 2010

All New Releases are available at iTunes Store Music now!!

Natasha Bedingfield – Strip Me
Daft Punk – Tron Legacy [Soundtrack]
Deadmau5 – 4×4=12
Duffy – Endlessly
Hinder – All American Nightmare
Christian Kane – The House Rules
Adam Lambert – Acoustic Live! [EP]
Plain White T’s – Wonders of the Younger
Redman – Reggie
Jessica Simpson – Happy Christmas
The Sorrow – The Sorrow
Sufjan Stevens – All Delighted People EP [CD Release]
Robin Trower – The Playful Heart
T.I. – No Mercy
Charlie Wilson – Just Charlie

TuneUp, The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Your Music Collection

TuneUp is a an iTunes add on that cleans up your music library, adding track information and cover art. TuneUp was created for music lovers, by music lovers, and it shows. It is everything I have been looking for, and a cheaper better alternative to paying someone to update my music collection by hand using my iPhone and Shazam.

My experience with TuneUp was great. I used it on my PC, that has about 4500 songs, many missing or incorrect track information and even more missing or incorrect cover art.

The install was super quick and easy, when I open iTunes TuneUp is attached to the right. There are tabs at the top to select to clean tracks or cover art you then then drag and drop tracks in the window and TuneUp starts to do it’s magic. In the sidebar the songs are analyzed and you have the option to save all changes, or go through the list and confirm each one before you save. I started out checking each one and I was impressed with TuneUp’s accuracy so I started saving all changes. I have a few rare tracks and cover songs from artists I did not even remember but TuneUp was able to identify these right away! Adding cover art was accurate too! It takes about 2 minutes to analyze each song and you can clean hundreds of songs at a time. It’s best to walk away and came back later to look through all your track updates.

How does it work? As the fine people at TuneUp put it “TuneUp ‘listens’ intelligently to your tracks by analyzing the audio waveforms and using characteristics like beats per minute (tempo), frequency range, average power in each frequency band (spectral flatness), and acoustic resonances to fix your metadata. This is commonly referred to as acoustic fingerprinting.” It is available for both MAC and PC, with three options to choose from. If you are skeptical or cheap you can try the free trial version that lets you clean 100 songs and 50 cover arts. The other options are for $19.95 one year of song and cover art clean ups, or the best value package $29.95 for unlimited clean ups. Watch a demo here.

New Release Tuesday November 30th, 2010

All New Releases are available at iTunes Store Music now!!

Eric Benet – Lost In Time
Black Eye Peas – The Beginning
Fefe Dobson – Joy
Flo Rida – Only One Flo (Part 1)
Ron Isley – Mr I
Chrisette Michele – Let Freedom Reign
Miguel – All I Want Is You
Seven Days – Into Forever
Slim Thug – The Thug Show
Soulja Boy – The DeAndre Way
Jazmine Sullivan – Love Me Back
Steve Wynn – Northern Aggression