Upcoming artist Rachael Bawn was in the studio for a photo shoot yesterday. She has been working on several songs with producer Ron Allen over the past few months and was putting the finishes touches on her package with the shoot.

In what may be a new alternative to the current crop of music distribution methods, Lala.com appears to offer the ability to stream and listen to entire albums. It seems to be contigent on users uploading their iTunes library and making them available to other users. More to be seen soon.

The loudness wars get a mention in a mainstream paper with this article in the Baltimore Sun. While a bit simplistic, the article does well explaining in layman's terms what has happened to dynamics in music.