I hear a lot of people complaining about the UI changes in the new iTunes 10. To be honest as far as the UI changes go I think people get a little too nit-picky, very quick to criticize any little change made. I am not really sure how the colors of the menu icons really effects my iTunes experience all that much. What I (and I am sure many people) REALLY think they dropped the ball on is not offering a subscription based service. You ask any Rdio user and their iTunes usage has drastically dropped after signing up. But if Apple offered a service with a monthly fee that included music, movies, tv all in one place I would seriously consider it. I hope Apple isn’t getting to be one of those companies that is getting their fingers into so many pies it can’t keep up with the little guys.

XLR8R has revamped their site and it seems they have taken a “less is more” approach. I must say off-hand I am a bit shocked and a tad disappointed. I really liked their site the way it was. The design of the site now is pretty much just an average blog. When there are already so many music blogs out there it kind of seems like a step backwards for them. Oh well, I still love XLR8R and as long as the content is the same I will read on.

Ghostly International is one of my favorite music labels, and some of my favorite artists are on this label. So I was happy to hear they had released a cool little application for the iPhone called Ghostly Discovery. From the looks of it they have put quite a bit of time and effort into this app. It’s free, so if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch go check it out. And if you haven’t heard the artists on Ghostly I also recommend you check them out as well.