Dubbed the Healing Player by JVC’s Victor Division, the XA-AW33 floating digital music player features an NXT flat panel speaker surface with an IPX7 waterproofing to keep up to 256MB of your MP3 and Windows Media audio files protected from the elements…like soap bubbles. It even features a “soothing” blue light for medicinal purposes....

Apple has announced the introduction of a long-awaited iTunes feature that lets customers apply credit from previously purchased singles to the purchase of the entire album. Dubbed Complete My Album, the new feature gives users 99 cents of credit for each track previously downloaded off of a given record, with the reduced price showing up a special page...

What’s becoming more and more apparent is that the Emperor Has No Clothes. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) brokers in fear. Maybe they knew right from the get-go that their lawsuits against illegal file sharing didn’t hold water, and if they instituted a climate of paranoia, then their settlement conversion rates would rise...

The promoters of the annual Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee have paid $8.7 million for the 530-acre farm where the event takes place. According to tofficial records, Bonnaroo producers A.C. Entertainment and Superfly Presents bought the Manchester tract for $8,686,482 from owner Sam McAllister. The deal works out at $16,374 per acre, well above the...

Cerwin Vega! has announced the CVA-121 and CVA-118, a new line of professional active subwoofers. The new Cerwin-Vega Active Sub Series feature built-in amplifiers to provide a completely integrated system, and a functional cast aluminum grill doubles as a heat-sink to minimize power compression and maximize driver performance. Along with XLR and...