More Wacken Bands

More bands have been added to the bill for this year's Wacken Festival in Germany, which happens from August 2-4. These are Soul Doctor, Jag Panzer and Death SS.

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MP3 Gone from WinXP

It seems that native MP3 support will not ship with Microsoft Windows XP, the first consumer edition of the Windows OS using the 32-bit NT kernel. It first appeared that Microsoft would ship a low-quality encoder with XP to make their WMA format look better, but they claim that this is not the case and the low-quality codec was only for testing. Windows XP should accept external 3rd party codecs for encoding MP3s, which you must install yourself, however.

Read the full article at The Register.

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Daily Interviews

A listing of interviews around the 'net to be updated throughout the day:

• There is a new interview with Adversary on with on Masterful Magainze.
  
• Electronic Basement has a great interview with Kerry King of Slayer

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Site Watch

A summary of news from around the 'net, to be updated throughout the day:

• Impressed By Disturbed, Ozzfest Adjusts Lineup is the title of a short piece on SonicNet about Disturbed being moved to the main stage after a hugley successful first performance.
  
• There's a new article on Ozzfest at MTV.com, which takes an introspective look at what is "heavy." Includes photos.
  
• CDNow Allstar News has an article entitled Ozzfest Kickoff: Black Sabbath Reigns Supreme; Mudvayne Emerges As Crowd Favorite, with a general report on the first Ozzfest show of the summer, giving some live quoates and whatnot.

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