Finally available for purchase (in hard copy formats) and digital streaming, it’s The Muppets! Starring Jason Segel (who also co-wrote the script) and Amy Adams, and featuring music from Flight of the Conchords‘ Bret McKenzie (who won a Best Original Song Oscar for his Man or Muppet), this new installment in the Muppets’ canon is fresh, … Read more
The Nettwerk Spring Music sampler is here, it features fun, poppy tunes to lift your spirits and send the winter gloom packing, and best of all, it’s FREE! If you loved fun.’s We Are Young, you’re in for a surprise with their The Gambler track on this sampler. It’s a sweet, Mumford & Sons -esque … Read more
Maybe you haven’t been taking advantage of the free Amazon MP3 offers we’ve posted about here (like this list of over 100 free MP3 songs) because you’ve thought it’s just not too likely that you’ll be listening to much music on your Fire. Maybe you’re not in the habit of carrying your Fire around with you the way … Read more
Looking for an alternative to March Madness? How about screening your own, private film festival on your Fire, with instant video movie rentals priced at just $1.99? Amazon has added some great titles to its over 16,700 title catalog of $1.99 movie rentals, including a slew of Disney animated classics, recent hits and critically-acclaimed, award-winning films … Read more
Music buffs, rejoice! At any given time Amazon makes a collection of free MP3 tracks from both established and up and coming artists available. Here’s a link to a current list of offerings. As you can see from the screenshot, once you’re viewing the list you can sort it by various criteria, such as song … Read more
The key to a good music experience on the Fire is a good—though not necessarily expensive—pair of headphones. The Fire’s built-in speaker is far from the high-fidelity experience you’re used to getting from a quality home stereo, heard through quality speakers, but that doesn’t mean the Fire can’t deliver audio worth listening to. A good pair … Read more
As fans of music and new media can tell you, the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX is to music and new media what the Sundance Festival is to film. SXSW began life as an indie music festival way back in 1987, but in subsequent years it became a gathering place for techies, indie … Read more
When Ludovic Bource was walking to the stage to collect his Academy Award for Best Original Score, for The Artist, you may not have been paying attention to the voiceover announcement. If so, then you missed the amazing factoid that Bource has no formal training in composing or arrangement, he’s self-taught. And yet, his silent film era … Read more