iTunes features a 78 song playlist and Kelefa Sanneh summarizes the music at the recent Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Renee Montagne:

His new disc will be produced using new dual-disc technology, and he’s about to hit the road on a solo tour. The rock legend performs “Jesus Was an Only Son”

itunes

Mark Cuban on the death of the music cd.

Xeni:

Musician and artist David Byrne, known most widely as co-founder of the Talking Heads, has just launched an internet radio station that streams the music he digs. I spoke with Mr. Byrne earlier today about the project for NPR’s “Day to Day.” Part of the interview will be included in a segment airing on the show tomorrow about filesharing and cultural change — but here are more details about the radio project.

Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current is available online here.

Fascinating story: Sony dumped a fully completed Fiona Apple album. The music is available via bittorrent.

Props to the folks at sxsw who posted a 2.6GB torrent file with 750+ mp3’s from bands performing at the Austin conference the next few weeks.

NPR’s All Songs Considered webcast a live Wilco concert from Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 club. Listen to the concert here.

Michael Levy takes a fascinating look at John Coltrane’s Giant Steps. A great compliment to Elizabeth Van Ness’s question: Is a Cinema Studies Degree the New MBA?

Still more, Ms. Daley, the U.S.C. Cinema-Television dean, argues that to generalize such skills has become integral to the film school’s mission. More than 60 academic courses at U.S.C. now require students to create term papers and projects that use video, sound and Internet components – and for Ms. Daley, it’s not enough. “If I had my way, our multimedia literacy honors program would be required of every student in the university,” she said.