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  On Valentine’s Day 2003, just months before suffering a massive stroke, the soulful Luther Vandross performed to a packed house at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. His first-ever live album, “Live at Radio City 2003” immortalizes that memorable performance. Listen to the entire album now in QuickTime, and purchase it exclusively at the iTunes Music Store before its release on October 28.   Returning after a ten-year hiatus, former New Bohemians frontwoman Edie Brickell erupts on the scene with her long-awaited album, “Volcano.” In it, Brickell combines her trademark vocal style, offbeat phrasing, and acoustic guitar with the bluesy, eclectic accompaniment of guitarist/producer Charlie Sexton. Enjoy all of Brickell’s “Volcano” in a special listening party from Universal Records. And find the album (along with three others by Brickell) at the iTunes Music Store.  OutKast’s smash hit, “Hey Ya,” is one of this month’s most downloaded songs at the iTunes Music Store. The infectious single comes from the talented team of “Andre 3000” Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton, and is the first release from their new album, “Speakerboxx/The Love Below.” Enjoy the witty video, and don’t forget — when you dance, shake it like a Polaroid picture.  Riding high atop the Billboard 200, Ludacris’s “Chicken & Beer” features the new single “Stand.” Check out the video. Like to own the album in pristine digital form? Visit the iTunes Music Store.  The Strokes set the “Room on Fire” with their eagerly-awaited follow-up to their hit debut album, “Is This It?” Watch “12:51,” the first single from the new album. “Room on Fire” lands on store shelves on October 28, but you can purchase “12:51” at the iTunes Music Store now.  “Clap Back” is the new song from Ja Rule’s upcoming album, “Blood In My Eye.” Keep your eye out for it as it hits store shelves on November 4th. You don’t have to wait till then to own the single. “Clap Back” is available at the iTunes Music Store now.  The personification of cool, the Rat Pack — Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra — were buddies onstage and off, showcasing their signature brand of swaggering camaraderie and sophisticated performing style on the stages of Las Vegas. Experience a sensory snapshot of the lounge era in a listening party for “Live & Swingin’: The Ultimate Rat Pack Collection,” a newly released recording of two live Rat Pack performances from the early ‘60s.  Border Crossing is an ever-changing collective of artists and producers who strive to creatively combine the genres of hip-hop, R & B, dance hall, reggae, and chill-out. Watch the video for the Border Crossing song “The Alias,” featuring the U.K.’s famed hip-hop vocalist, Jehst.  Dan Zanes and Friends invite you to their raucous and sprawling “House Party,” featuring special guests Deborah Harry, Philip Glass, Angelique Kidjo, David Jones, and Bob Weir.  Rolling Stone calls The Rapture’s music “punk-disco” that fuses “mean guitars and disco trance for a ferocious new breed of punk funk.” Watch the band’s new video, “House of Jealous Lovers,” from its danceable new CD, “Echoes.” |
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  Since its launch in April, iTunes 4 has been satisfying the musical cravings of Mac users with the hundreds of thousands of songs available on the online music store. And now Apple would like to welcome Windows users to the party. Introducing iTunes 4.1 — the world's best digital jukebox, featuring the second generation of the iTunes Music Store. Available now as a free download for both Mac and Windows. With more music than ever before — over 400,000 songs by the end of October — from all five of the major US music companies and over 200 independent labels, iTunes brings you an online music store experience like no other. Fast and reliable downloads. Pristine sound quality. Exclusive tracks. Gorgeous QuickTime videos. Celebrity playlists. You can even purchase gift certificates and create allowance accounts for your kids. There’s much more to tell. And you can hear it from Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself in this QuickTime video of the music event recently held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Be sure to watch till the end to catch a special solo performance by Sarah McLachlan, as well as a few other surprises. And learn more about iTunes 4.1 by visiting the Apple website.   
Along with extensive support for 3GPP and a host of performance
improvements, QuickTime 6.4 offers a newly enhanced AAC (Advanced
Audio Coding) audio codec.
The songs you purchase from the iTunes Music Store owe their clarity and dynamic range to this core technology in QuickTime 6.4. In fact, AAC — the audio component of the MPEG-4 standard — delivers sound rivaling that of uncompressed CD audio, while compressing files more efficiently than the older MP3 format. And AAC is not just limited to the songs you download from the iTunes Music Store. Thanks to QuickTime 6.4, you can also import the songs on your CDs into iTunes in the AAC format. Visit our website to download QuickTime 6.4 for Mac or Windows. Windows users should note that QuickTime 6.4 is automatically installed with iTunes 4.1.  We’ve also released a new version of the MPEG-2 Playback Component, required for compatibility with QuickTime 6.4 on Mac OS X. Visit our website for instructions on how to obtain the update.  
What’s the perfect companion to the new iTunes 4.1 for Mac and
Windows?
iPod, of course. Now with iPod Sofware 2.1 Update and iTunes 4.1, not only can you create On-The-Go playlists on your iPod but you can sync them back to iTunes when you return to your computer. The software update also lets you use your iPod for on-the-go photo storage with the new Belkin Photo Card Reader. If you attach the new Belkin Voice Recorder, your iPod even turns into a handy recording device.1 The good news is enough to make you dance around the room. Just as the folks are doing in two colorful new ads for iPod. For your dancing pleasure, the Black Eyed Peas pluck “Hey Mama” out of their iPod, and Jet offers up “Are You Gonna Be My Girl,” both available at the iTunes Music Store. 1iPod Software 2.1 Update supports only iPods with a dock connector.  
Things are really dead in Everett, Washington.
That’s because a mysterious plague has turned millions of corpses into zombies hunting for fresh blood. Hiding out inside a shopping mall, a clutch of survivors tries to buy time and plan an escape. But hordes of undead descend upon the mall, intent on ferreting them out. A remake of the 1979 chiller, “Dawn of the Dead” opens in March 2004. But you can watch the QuickTime-exclusive trailer now. If you dare. 
“The last three generations of filmgoers have never seen this properly.”
On Halloween, one of the scariest of movies of all time returns to theaters. Director Ridley Scott fills you in on what you can expect — and fear — in the digitally-remastered director's cut of the 1979 hit thriller “Alien.”  Are you a multimedia producer who creates content in AVI format? If so, you can expand your viewing audience by using a new video codec to turn your AVI files into cross-platform QuickTime movies. TechSmith’s EnSharpen also provides lossless compression, claiming the highest compression in the industry for screen recording and animated content. For more information and to download a free evaluation copy of EnSharpen, visit the TechSmith website.  
Sample scenes and creator commentary from the WB hit series
“Smallville,” featuring the life and times of the youthful Superman
and his adopted family, the Kents. “Smallville: The Complete First
Season” is now available on DVD.
If the falling leaves make you suddenly nostalgic for extreme summer
sports of months gone by, check out Wakeboarding Unleashed, a new
computer game for all ages, coming soon for the Mac from Aspyr
Media.
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