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Can’t make it to the Phish concert in Milwaukee? Your computer is here to help.
By Kathryn Yu and Adam Baldwin
You've exhausted your CD collection,
and if you hear one more song by an
“artist” still in the throes of puberty
you’re going to hang yourself from a
Backstreet Boys banner. The notion of
buying a ticket to a concert
at least one web cast every day; most
are pay-per-view.
Check the far right column on the
Rollingstone.com home page to access
their web cast selection. They just list the
upcoming web casts for the
entered your mind, but you’d
have to hock the watch your
grandfather gave you for
graduation to pay for it.
With broadband connec
tions becoming common, it’s
easier to watch live concert
performances on your com
puter. Most video sites offer
week (while HOB lists them a
month in advance). The selec
tions on RS vary in popularity
and variety, but they’re all free.
The music section at
mtv.com houses listening
parties for new releases and
exclusive interviews.
VH1 .com, like MTV, offers
clips in a streaming format—
there is no download time because you
watch the video from the site’s servers.
Quality depends on your Internet con
nection speed and the amount of traffic
on the site.
RealPlayer, Windows Media Player
and Apple’s Quicktime are the heavy
weight apps for video on the Net. For
best results, make sure you have the lat
est versions of each and a high-speed
connection, like DSL, cable or T-1.
concerts and full-length
streaming audio and video of many
artists (check the Sounds+Visions
department under VH1.0).
Make sure to visit Real.com’s Guide
to Live Music Events, a consolidated list
ing of upcoming video web casts. Also
check out About.com's Guide to
Streaming Video Networks. Yahoo.com
has concert and broadband sections
that feature full-length music videos and
live concerts, optimized for high-speed
Most video sites offer clips In a streaming format—
there Is no download time because you watch the
video from the site's servers.
connections.
At Launch.com
you select genres or
specific bands and
the site lists upcom
The
House of
Blues site
(hob.com)
easily has
the best
overall selec
tion. Self
touted as
“the home of live music on the
Internet,” you will find a wide range of
musical varieties, highlighted by well
known acts like Bela Fleck, the B-52's,
Stone Temple Pilots and Lit. HOB offers
ing web casts at the top of the screen.
Channelfly.com features exclusively pre
recorded web casts—nothing live. (This
site specializes in upstart UK bands that
few of us have ever heard of.)
MuchMusic.com is a Canadian music
video network specializes in (what else?)
Canadian bands. Ampcast.com boasts
live and archived web casts, prominently
featured on the home page. •
To see a complete guide to online web
casts, go to steamtunnohLBet
Editor's Pick
COLLEGE LIFE
Resident Assistant
Residentassistant.com
In the cops and robbers world of dormitory
life, resident assistants straddle the line
between the rebel students and evil-empire
administrators. Sometimes they look the other
way. Other times they bust you like they’re
paid on commission. But regardless of how
they respond to their students’ misanthropy,
RAs see everything that goes down on their
floors. And resident assistant.com is the best
RA information source on the web. From its
archive of wacky dormitory stunts to its list of
cool awareness-raising floor events, you can
steal some great ideas and trade them to your
RA for a Get Out of Jail Free card. JLowenthaI
FREE STUFF
Freepalace
FreeDalace.com
Free. Few words evoke as many feelings, passions
or Internet traffic as the word Free. The new
self-styled Camelot of Free is Freepalace.com.
With page categories such as Free Stuff, Free
jokes, Free Pics and links to other freebie sites, it
is—as its motto suggests—a place "where
everything is free.” The concept is great and the
design is nice, but unfortunately the site loads
very slowly, and many of the links and pages
were down or did not load (free often means
poorly funded). However, look for these prob
lems to be fixed quickly as traffic and demand
for the site increases, and it surely will—after all
who could turn down something that is free?
MDougherty
RANDOM
Black-Ops
Cruzio.com/~blackops
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