Music Review: Exploring Folk and Soft Rock and Discovering Pop Standards
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Unfailingly demure, stalwartly upbeat and blessed with a vocal technique second to none, Maureen McGovern might be described as the Julie Andrews of the Love Generation.
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Erik Friedlander offers an idiosyncratic version of American roots music, with steady, folklike themes that unfold like a trip down an endless highway.
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Record labels don't trust us with their music. They need to retune that thinking
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The digital music space is changing, with more songs and a growing number of places to download music legally. Realizing that the time was ripe to see how we were doing, I took some song recommendations and sat down to see what I could download.
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A new-music group spreads its roots while keeping its indie-band identity.
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aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with audio cd rip front-end. Currently supported formats are mp3, ogg, wav, wma, flac, mp4, ape, mpc, mac, radio streaming and podcasts.   The aTunes, Jajuk and Jukes audio player projects are pleased to  announce the start of close collaboration on shared ressources. The  three projects aim at providing full-featured cross-platform jukeboxes  for advanced users. As a first result, the Jukebox Power Pack has been  released. It contains the three applications bundled together. Jukebox  Power Pack is the fruit of the first collaboration efforts. Included  with the package is the excellent album Kogani from Suerte. It  symbolizes the spirit with which the software is created, namely  collaboration in an open and creative environment. The Jukebox Power  Pack is able to run on all Java 6-ready platforms, including Microsoft  Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris. Jukebox Power Pack can be downloaded at   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161929&package_id=242026
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The AP takes a look at some of 2007's overlooked albums:
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A hipper niche of kid music is encouraging a curious form of parental connoisseurship, where ÂHigh FidelityÂ meets high chairs.
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A look at three GUI front-ends for the LilyPond music notation software.
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Reviewing iTunes 7 and the new line of iPods, David Pogue writes for the New York Times, you can&#146;t &#147;find a better online music store, or a free jukebox program as powerful and clean as iTunes. And you certainly won&#146;t find a music player that beats the new iPods in polish, capacity or even price. They come dazzlingly close to perfection.&#148;
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Jack Johnson is not just a purveyor of upbeat acoustic pop. Heâs also a dedicated environmentalist.
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Buying music from your computer over the internet is cool, but buying music from the portable player in your hand is cooler. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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New releases from Foo Fighters, Twista, Iron and Wine, Keyshia Cole and the Weakerthans.
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Midlake, Otis Taylor, and Lucinda Williams round out this week's reviews of new albums.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: Spain struggles to find new words while Kosovo seeks a song of its own. La Marseillaise shows us how it's really done
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Pop music is rich in stories of lost opportunities and misfortune, with former Beatles drummer Pete Best one of the best-known examples of someone who missed out on the fame and riches of his former bandmates.
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We review albums by Wilco, Gretchen Wilson, Miranda Lambert, and Pink Martini.