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A number of new music gadgets, accessories and technologies were unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Association’s Annual Show last week.

Carly Fiorina announced that HP will offer an “HP” iPod Photo, as well as a couple of new home media center boxes.

HP is also partnering with Nokia to provide a service called “visual radio” which will broadcast music to phones using GPRS and regular old FM. The service will provide artist information as well as embedded e-commerce (e.g. ringtones, concert tickets).

Verizon kicks out the mobile jams with it’s rollout of a fat 3G wireless multimedia network and services, called Vcast. According to Engadget—

The service will cost $15 per month for unlimited access to basic video clips and WAP content. Premium content like music downloads, 3D games, NBA, NASCAR and probably some exclusive video content will cost extra. All of the video content is produced specifically for the small screen, so it’s not shmooshed TV clips but actual phone-centric video, and it looks sharp. Verizon won’t just get exclusively formatted content, they’ll also get exclusively produced content. Fox will create 3 new series specifically for the VCAST service, Love and Hate, 24 Conspiracy and Sunset Hotel. MTV and other broadcasters will also provide programs.

The Verizon release is here.

iPodlounge has an excellent roundup of iPod-related accessories, which seems to have become an industry unto itself.

Samsung announced a not-shipping-yet MPEG4 portable.

Alpine announced an impressive lineup of auto-centered satellite radio and mobile multimedia devices and accessories.

Creative takes a shot across the bow of the iPod Mini. More at Engadget.

Satellite radio is blowing up, with portable announcements from both XM and Sirius. Both companies also announced upcoming video services. (XM, Sirius)

Bill Gates, in a glitch-ridden demo, previewed a bunch of crappy Windows stuff backed by lame marketing slogans like “PlaysForSure”. He also referred to those advocating copyright and intellectual property reform as “Communists”. The response from the Creative Commons blog.

More Cowbell has the scoop from the band:

The three piece rock band known as mclusky have disbanded, as of friday january 7th, 2005.

The reason for this parting is private, though probably not as entertaining as you?d imagine.

Personally, I would like to thank all the people, places and times that occured on or near us.

I`m grateful for the love and to to a lesser degree, the hate. There?ll be more music soon, from all of us.

Regards.

falco

Update: Looks like The Unicorns broke up, too.

The R&B charged side project of Greg Dulli, Uptown Lights, currently have a MySpace page you can check out. I imagine songs will be posted there soon.

As a reminder, donewaiting.com also has a MySpace account if you’re looking for new and exciting people to add to your account. (wink!)

You loved the album. Now you need the camera.

Go here for all the details.

This is a show to help raise money for the donewaiting.com album coming out next month.

Saturday, January 8
Oldfield’s on High
with Miranda Sound, Eric Metronome & Bel Auburn

Full details here.

Do come out and say hello.

There’s way too many for me to mention so you gotta see for yourself.

I’ve written about my love of the Black Swans in the past, and now they’re heading out to some cities around the world to spread their music.

Like I said before, fans of Bonnie Prince Billy or the Tindersticks need to see what the Black Swans are all about. Here’s two MP3s: Who Will Walk in the Darkness With You | Blue Skies

Check it:

Jan 20th Comet Cafe 4579 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati, OH
Jan 21st Springwater 115 27th Ave N., Nashville, TN
Jan 22nd Nightlight Bar & Club 405 1/2 W. Rosemary St., Chapel Hill, NC
Jan 23rd Brookland Tavern 122 W. State St., Columbia, SC
Jan 25th Caledonia Lounge 256 West Clayton Street, Athens, GA
Jan 26th Jack Rabbits 1528 Hendricks Ave, Jacksonville, FL
Jan 27th Emerald Bar 550 Central Ave St Petersburg, FL
Jan 28th New World Brewery 1313 8th Ave Tampa, FL

From the Parasol newsletter:

KEVIN TIHISTA?S RED TERROR – Home Demons, Volume 1 (Parasol)
RELEASE DATE: March 8, 2005

The Chicago Reader named Kevin Tihista?s ?Wake Up Captain? the #1 Chicago release of 2004 and UK?s UNCUT voted it one of the year?s Top 60 titles. MOJO described KT as a ?a wry, dreamy-voiced soul let loose in a deluxe soft rock playpen? (that?s a good thing) and the Onion compared ?Wake Up Captain? to the ?early-?70s work of John Lennon and Harry Nilsson.?

Inspired by the sheer number of unreleased home demos collecting on CD-Rs in Kevin?s apartment, Parasol is releasing the first volume of Kevin Tihista?s ?Home Demons? series. #1 features fourteen tracks including, a version of the ?Wake Up Captain? track ?Sweet,? a cover of the Dave Mason hit ?We Just Disagree? and songs from the download only collection ?Dracula.?

Kevin Tihista live:
Chicago residency-Schuba?s-January 10th, 17th, 24th & 31st.

Kevin’s “Wake Up Captain” CD was on 3.5 Donewaiting writers “Best of 2004” lists.

Our writers are getting back into the swing of the new year:

// Jawbreaker has some more info on Flash iPods

// Over on Atomic Ned, Chip finds an mp3 of Nina Gordon (Veruca Salt) covering NWA. I swear.

// In Los Angeles, Han Q. Duong talks about LA band Vagenius.

// Our farthest columnist, Steve Miller in England, hits us up with a few lovely random pieces of information.

// News about a San Francisco Tsunami benefit.

// Danica has info about a new Indianapolis music venue, and the first concert that was played there with the Scissor Sisters.

// Stephen Mejias moves to a new apartment in Jersey City.

And finally, our SXSW blog reports of Lou Reed and the Futureheads at the SXSW 2005 Music Festival.

If you didn’t know, we’ve got a rather comprehensive blog about the SXSW 2005 Music Festival going on here. Those are just some of the bands we’ve discovered that are playing at this year’s festival. And this is just the beginning.