U2: Single Release and Album Tracklisting.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- "Get On Your Boots," the first single from U2's new album No Line On The Horizon, will be released on January 19th on Interscope Records. The album is currently available for pre-order and will be released on March 3rd. Produced...

U2: No Line On The Horizon.
Dublin, IRELAND, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, will be released in North America on Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Written and recorded in various locations, No Line On The Horizon is the group's 12th studio album and is...

Art for people's sake.
Every summer Edinburgh becomes a mecca for artists from all over the world thanks to the Fringe and International arts festivals. But what can art do for a local community with more mundane issues to tackle? Pilton and Muirhouse, overlooking the Forth Bridge from the picturesque seashore...

The sound & the fury: the movies learn to talk.
The silent film had created a world of persuasive reality despite the absence of voices and natural sound. Indeed, much of the art of the silent film lay in circumventing these artificial limitations. A story had to be told with images alone and directors like Frank Capra, John Ford,...

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: recent reissues of British electronic music from 1955-1996.
With the CD release this year by the British Library of Samuel Beckett's seven works written for BBC radio comes a chance to reevaluate the commercial releases from the sound effects studio that made these recordings possible, the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) Radiophonic Workshop. The Radiophonic Workshop (RW) was...

Rachelle Ann records with De Walden for new album.
"Search for a Star" winner Rachelle Ann Go started work on her next album by recording tracks with famous producer Christian de Walden of Hollywood. De Walden, whose work with big name Latin stars like Martha Sanchez, Paulina Rubio, Malos and many others has earned acclaim all over the...

Lipinski Redefines HD Surround for HDTV.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Lipinski Sound, a revolutionizing audio equipment manufacturer, announces increased presence in the consumer electronics market. Lipinski's mission is to deliver HD Surround Sound to HDTV. The company has developed a turn-key surround solution vastly surpassing the audio quality available to Home Theater consumers...

The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology.
The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology. By Walter Everett. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [xix, 395 p. ISBN 0-19-509553-7 (cloth); 0-19-512941-5 (pbk.). $65 (cloth); $24.95 (pbk.).] This long-awaited book by popular-music scholar Walter Everett is the first work to attempt a comprehensive historical, descriptive,...

Paradigm Active/20.
Distributor: Audiostream, MPO Box 2410, Niagara Falls, NY, 14302; 905/632-0180; www.paradigm.ca Price: $1,600 in gloss cherry or black ash (review pair) Source: Distributor loan Reviewer: Tom Lyle The Paradigm Active/20 speakers are described by Paradigm as fully active bi-amplified speakers. They...

EARS OPEN EYES.
My ears have opened my eyes. In the course of producing an audio entertainment project, I realized that there are many more storage devices, formats, and media "out there" than I have been covering. I've tended to focus on large-file applications such as imaging and this is the first...