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It's entirely possible Aaron Lande would have left his heavy metal habit in his iPod had the drunken driver and his two tons of steel stayed in his own lane. But in March 2006, the car went into Lande's lane, smashing metal, breaking glass and doing more damage to his neck than the headbanging and thrashing he loved ever could. In fact, the violin, something he had a deep connection with, caused ...

The US space agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft sends back its first images since reaching the Moon. A What-man? When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, is started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day. He had told me it was big, but I hadn’t realised he meant THAT big. It wa

Unquestionably, summer 2008 will be remembered as a time when very few significant artists released new albums. With the notable exceptions of Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson and My Morning Jacket, most of the summer's finest music was being heard at festivals and inside concert halls, not in living rooms or at the gym on an iPod.