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The Wall Street Journal's Katherine Boehret compares two new music discovery tools, Zune's Mixview and Apple's Genius, in today's "The Mossberg Solution" column. Boehret found both positives and negatives with both tools and had better things to say about Mixview.

A mixed bag from physical formats and news that will impact some indie labels:

In a post at A VC (which I found via Alley Insider) I read about two new music mixing sites: Muxtape and Mixwit. The former has been all over the blogosphere lately. The latter was new to me.

I chuckled when I read this:

There are two sides to music widgets. On one hand, a widget enables an artist to sell directly to the consumer from any website in which the simple bit of HTML code can be dropped. The other side is the free widget, like the kinds found at social networking sites and music blogs. Free widgets allow people to compare likes and dislikes, discover new music and trumpet favorites to friends. Some people think widgets are the saviors of the record industry. Sales are going to explode, they say, be

Jeff Miller comes to Nashville by way of Pittsburg. He comes packing three excellent albums, 2002's "Trying to Be Cool", 2004's "Something Different", and 2006's "Seesaw". Each has Jeff's own disinctive brand of accoustic pop/rock - with great hooks and songwriting sensibilities.