Pants with built-in mouse and keyboard? (Vous Pensez) 

The inside story of a couple who make great microphones;  The Pelosi Family.  (NPR)

Missouri considers re-banning concert ticket resales after the November Hannah Montana ticket scalping fiasco.  (coolfer)

A new condo’s parking garage threatens the historic echo chambers built beneath Capitol Record’s Tower in L.A. (Jack Pribek’s Blog).  If you visit, check out track # 6 on his new album.  I love backup singers!

The BBC has just launched an interesting Sound Index of all the top 1000 artists from the web.  Guess it beats the Nielsen scans… According to MillionMusic, the new service is “based upon a 6-hourly scan of MySpace, iTunes, Google, Bebo, Last.fm and YouTube.” (Via MillionMusic).

An afternoon panel at the Leadership Music Digital Summit in Nashville concluded that indie artists still need the big labels to achieve big successes.  According to MusicRow, when the moderator “asked the panelists to name an artist who has achieved even mid-level success without a record deal, they were stumped.”

GuitarFlame ponders Aerosmith’s Joe Perry’s guitar solos.  Add your voice to the mix.

Some of Seth’s smallest posts are the best.  Read Better.

WiretotheEar has a great video from mastering engineer Rob Babicz.

Check our Martin Atkin’s video from SXSW;  –NSFW ’cause he calls it like he sees it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt9mGOmn74A

He has a brilliant book on touring (which I recommend) and also posted a Youtube video about his 5-pointed Star Inward Crush Touring Strategy.

Finally,  Hometracked examines 10 Myths about Normalization  (he’s talking about audio, not teenagers!).