Music News

- The CMAs (Country Music Association Awards) were last night. For a list of highlights and the winners, click here.
- Idolator has an excellent piece on Optimal Media Production, a German company hoping to revive the dying recording industry by selling discs that are vinyl on one side and CDs on the other and scratch-and-sniff discs. I wonder what Amy Winehouse's next album will smell like.
- In "stating the obvious news," Bloomberg has a piece on a recent study revealing an "alarming number of references to sex, alcohol, and drugs" in popular music. For their next trick, Bloomberg hopes to report that the sky has turned a deep shade of blue.
- Did you know that a recent UNC study revealed that your brain actually diminishes your ability to see when you try to listen to complex sounds? BBC News has the scoop.
- And Creative Loafing tackles T.I.'s latest federal firearms charges and notes how the recent culture war of hip-hop in America shows that "hip-hop is on trial, and everybody's snitching".