Apparently Jeff announced that Amazon will be launching Pay-Per-View streaming service next week. I wonder what that entails and if it will work as well as my Tivo 3/Unbox connection right now? Will I also be able to access music subscriptions?

Quoted: Chris Gaffney, a roots-music omnivore whose earthy aplomb and offhand mastery of many styles made him a quintessential Southern California bar musician -- but who also earned international regard for his heartfelt and witty songwriting -- has died. He was 57.

Quoted: Obituary | The singer-songwriter, who died of liver cancer at 57, touched people with his songs and personality.

Apple = 2 million DRM-free songs
Amazon = 4.5 million DRM-free songs

Quoted: Amazon's MP3 store - which sells only songs without copy protection - has quietly become No. 2 in digital sales since opening nearly six months ago. That's even though Apple dominates digital music with its iTunes Store (the second-largest music retailer in the world, after Wal-Mart) and its hugely popular iPod.

Yeah. This is what I've been wanting to encourage me to pick up guitar again. It's like Guitar Hero with a real guitar. The video looks great!

Quoted: I never got the whole Guitar Hero Rock Band and their fake guitars playing thingie which require so much practice

A good list of music I want to check out.

Quoted: The Hype Machine is a MP3 blog aggregator with slick tools to listen and read about music. It gathers songs posted on MP3 blogs and presents them in an easy to consume manner. It lets you easily listen to the new music that has been posted today by a great variety of bloggers - discover and fall in love with something new!

Speculation on where Amazon might take the Kindle platform development next... MUSIC! A device with wireless subscription access to all music would be great!

Quoted: 1. Make its MP3 store global. 2. Make a WWAN-equipped MP3 player hooked into the music store, a la Kindle. 3. Profit. Profit like God-damned crazy.

If you want to do something fun, go listen to this isolated David Lee Roth vocal track from "Runnin' with the Devil." (It's at the bottom of the short article). Sweet!