Michaela Pfadenhauer (Karlsruhe): The Lord of the Loops: Observations at the Club Culture DJ-Desk. A review of Anthony J. Rudel's Hello, Everybody!: The Dawn of American Radio. A review of Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story of Recorded Music by Greg Milner (and more and more and more and more; and more at Bookforum). A clutch of recent books addresses the ruthless commercial evolution of recorded music — from wax cylinders to vinyl records to digitally encoded compact discs, and now to the whirring bits and bytes of hard drives. A review of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music by Greg Kot (and more). Justice for all: Robert A Delfino takes Metallica’s argument against Napster seriously. Dan Nelson stirred up controversy with his book All Known Metal Bands  — now he wants a million dollars. Why

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