How to Stream Your Music Online

You’ve spent a lot of time and money collecting digital music. And by now, you have a pretty sweet library of MP3s and AACs to show for the effort.

But let’s say you want to take that library to go? Before you start carrying around a huge hard drive, you might want to try streaming your tunes online instead. All it takes to start streaming your music over the internet is a playlist, a server with some storage space, and a software player that can open and play an internet stream.

How to Moonwalk Like MJ

Step 1

Keep left leg bent with heel planted. Put your weight on that leg.

Step 2

Slide right leg backward by pulling from the hips, keeping that knee locked and that foot flat on the ground. Swing left arm forward at the same time.

Step 3

When right leg is behind you, shift your weight onto it while bending right knee and lifting right heel. Straighten left leg, then pull it backward from the hip. Meanwhile, swing right arm forward.

Step 4

Repeat. Grab crotch (optional). Exclaim: “You’ve been struck by a smooth criminal! Hooo!” (not optional).

Michael Jackson’s new song released

A previously unreleased song by Michael Jackson entitled “This Is It” was unveiled to the world almost four months after the star’s death.

The track was released at the stroke of midnight at http://www.MichaelJackson.com, marking “yet another exciting moment in music history for one of the world’s most revered artists,” Sony Music Entertainment said in a statement.

The recording features backing vocals by Michael’s brothers and will be played during the closing sequence of the forthcoming film “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” and feature on a two-disc CD set of the same name.

A new photo of Jackson taken during rehearsals at the Staples Center in Los Angeles will also be unveiled, the record label said.

The album will go on sale later this month to coincide with the worldwide release of the movie on October 28.

Disc one of the album features some of Jackson’s biggest hits such as “Billie Jean,” “Smooth Criminal,” “Human Nature,” and “Thriller” arranged in the same sequence as they appear in the film.

The disc ends with two versions of “This Is It,” the original and an orchestral one.

Disc two offers fans the early demo versions of classics “She’s Out Of My Life,” “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” and “Beat It.” It also features a recently discovered spoken word poem by Jackson entitled “Planet Earth.”

The film will offers a behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have taken place this year in London, Sony said.

Chronicling the months from March through June 2009, the film is drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs for the show.

Jackson died on June 25 at age 50 after taking a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs.

Los Angeles coroners say Jackson’s death is being treated as a homicide, but prosecutors have not filed charges so far.

Michael Jackson tribute concert On June 2010

Organizers have announced that the Michael Jackson tribute concert scheduled to take place on Sept. 26 in Vienna has been canceled, Reuters reports. Instead, the event will take place in London in June 2010, to mark the first anniversary of Jackson’s death. On Tuesday, Jackson’s brother Jermaine and organizer Georg Kindel said at a news conference in Vienna that the tribute’s roster included Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown, Akon, and Natalie Cole. The very next day, however, they backtracked and cited various conflicts with those stars’ schedules.

Apple iPod nano (5th Generation)

markably, the latest iPod nano looks almost identical to its predecessor, but this player packs so much more into its small frame: A video camera, an FM tuner (a first for iPods!), a pedometer for joggers, and a larger screen. Priced at $149 for 8GB and at $179 for 16GB ($20 less than last year’s 16GB player), this nano is more affordable, and it’s more capable than similarly priced players, so it’s our latest Editors’ Choice.

With a new polished and colorful paint job (you can choose from nine hues), the new nano is one good-looking device. At 3.6 by 1.5 by 0.2 inches (HWD) and a mere 1.3 ounces, it’s truly identical in size to the previous (4th-generation) nano. The screen, however, is significantly larger—2.2 inches as opposed to 2 (it may not sound like a lot, but on such a tiny player, that 0.2 inch makes a big difference), and its 376-by-240-pixel resolution is a bit higher too—the display on 4th-gen nano is 320-by-240.

Ellen DeGeneres Replaces Paula Abdul as the Fourth American Idol Judge

By Stefanie Lee 09/09/09 5:29 PM

The talk show host joins Simon, Randy, and Kara in 2010 for the ninth season of Idol.

Ellen DeGeneres will be the fourth judge on the ninth season of American Idol, premiering in January 2010, FOX reported in a press release. She’ll be a permanent fixture on the panel with Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, and Kara DioGuardi after the auditions, which will feature guest judges like Victoria Beckham and Neil Patrick Harris.

DeGeneres, who has danced with President Barack Obama (back when he was campaigning) and sang with Josh Groban, will more than fill the gap left behind by Paula Abdul‘s exit. Though DeGeneres is not a professional musician, her endless knowledge of the industry and experience as a performer will be huge assets to the panel. Plus, with a personality as big as hers, she’ll probably give Simon a run for his money —  and maybe even a taste of his own medicine.

11 Resources For Learning Guitar On The Web

You can learn to do just about anything on the web, and guitar playing is no different. We’ve got 11 tools to help you start living out your dreams of being a rock legend…

Lessons & Tools

All-Guitar-Chords.com – Quickly look up chords and scales, see them laid out on a virtual fret board, and see progressions of a scale in tab.

ChordBook.com – A Flash-based site that will let you easily look up the fingering for any chord, and then you can click “strum” to hear how it should sound.

GuitarLessonWorld.com – Based around the book of the same name, Guitar Lesson World has numerous free lessons, examples, and MP3s to whet your appetite. You can then move on to Guitar Teacher World that offers up video tutorials and more.

GuitarTricks.com – Thousands of video tutorials for learning to play guitar. Membership is free, and you receive 25 free lessons with that, otherwise it is $10.95 a month.

HowToTuneAGuitar.org – The site features lots of good tips for beginners, like how to pick your first guitar, and features a tune-by-ear tuner that you can set to just about any setting.

LickLibrary.com – Numerous video lessons that you can either subscribe to, or purchase on a per-video basis.

Video-Tabs.com – Video () guitar tutorials split into categories from beginner to requested specific songs.

Tabs & Tools

Guitar World Tabs – Guitar World magazine has partnered with record labels to provide fully legal, ad-supported tabs of well-known songs from the Beatles to Van Halen.

Guitar-Pro – A downloadable program for Windows and Mac that allows you to make multi-track tab for guitar, bass and banjo.

PowerTab – A freeware tab editor for Windows that’s full of features, including print preview and print.

TabBasket.com – An ad-free environment for storing and organizing all of your tab music in many different formats.