Recently, founding member and bassist for Jane's Addiction joined us in the Zoom In studios for an exclusive Rehearsal Space interview. In it we discussed many things, including his reluctance to re-form Jane's Addiction despite many offers from Perry Ferrell and crew.

Enjoy!

Zoom In Online™ and Soundsnap.com are pleased to present the Free Soundsnap Sampler.

For an electronic musician, samples are the blood that pumps thru all of your music. But when you are constantly making new samples, and DAW's like Logic are coming packaged with thousands of pre-made offerings, keeping track of your samples can quickly become troublesome. With programs to create, organize, and manage digital samples, Redmatica could quickly become your new digi-best friend.

Is the first wave of legal, DRM free music downloads swelling at last?

In February '07 a new website popped up that looked promising, and now in full Beta mode, Kompoz.com looks to be able to deliver on that promise.

I always go back and forth between utilizing the cool features of my software, and just drifting along working on stuff day to day, not really thinking about configuring my computer to do more things for me. I've just experienced a revival of an old habit I had of tweaking iTunes and its column views and Smart Playlists to mix up how I listened to my music.

I think what dented that modus operandi was a little something called "the podcast."

Time for another one of my favorite software tools...

Even if you aren't into Nine Inch Nail's music, you should really check out their new offer, "Year Zero." Not just the music (which I admit, I like, but isn't really what I normally listen to), but the free Garageband version posted to their website. Not that NIN is mastering their songs in Garageband (I believe I read they use Pro Tools, but bounced each track out individually to create the Garageband version, though I can't lay my hand on the source of that).

If you like, you can skip my intro, and get to the list.

I've been playing WoW for almost two years now, sometimes more actively than others, but one pair of facts has persisted throughout: there are often times—especially when I'm in the car or when I'm coding—when A.) I can't be at my computer playing WoW and B.) I wish I could be at my computer playing WoW. Yes: addicted.

David Chartier over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) takes us through all the steps needed to set up a hard drive connected to your new Airport Extreme Basestation and maintain a single copy of your complete iTunes Library there for easy access to all of your networked computers. (Apple also has a neat diagram of this all working, too.)