iTunes lacks one feature that I’d really like. The ability to cue the next song to play once the current one has finished. I can’t even find a plugin that has this ability.

Back in November I was working on Little Noise sessions at Union Chapel. One of the bands that turned up were We Are Scientists, a quirky American band who played a great set.

A lot of the bands had their record companies recording their sessions and this is the first band I’ve seen that have released their live session from Union Chapel. So if you have an iTunes account, you can download Live From Union Chapel, London.

I’m waiting to see if they release the stuff Robyn did. She did a great acoustic set which was so different to her studio recorded material.

UpdateI forgot to mention that my favourite track is After Hours. Excellent to hear live.

I’m a dance music fan, I’ll admit it. I like plenty of other music and have a fairly well balanced genre list in iTunes at the moment.
I got an email the other day about a new release coming out this Monday, so I had a flick through the iTunes store to see if I could pick the double CD up at a reasonable price. I was a little surprised when I saw the following.

In any music store the new Tiesto album is a double CD.
Even Amazon stock it as a double CD for £8.98.

So how can Apple justify charging £7.99 for just one CD, when you can pick up the double album from anywhere else for £8.98 or possibly less?
Apple have purposely listed two separate CD’s and are charging £7.99 for each CD. I know where I’m going to be getting my copy of the album from, and it certainly won’t be iTunes.

Chicane has a new album out, Somersault. It came out in July, but for some reason I only noticed today!

It’s a pretty good album so far and I’m sure it will get better the more I listen to it.

I just bought my first iTunes Plus download in the form of Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night.

The iTunes Plus version of the music cost nothing more than buying without the plus symbol next to the tracks, so I thought I’d take advantage.
Asides from a slightly higher bit rate of 256kbps there’s not too much different about the Plus files. Supposedly the music should sound better, but I suspect you’d need some perfect ears and top quality equipment to fully notice the difference.

I’ll be going to see the chemical twins in December with Ant at Brixton Academy. Should be a good show hopefully.