Take Your Favorite Music on the Road With Ipod Car Adapters

Recently, the iPod has become the most popular portable music player on the planet.  The biggest problem with this is that  they can’t be used in your car, where people tend to listen to music the most.  Unless, of course, you purchase an iPod car adapter.  These devices make it extremely easy to bring enjoyment to the road.

Many people love to listen to music while driving, especially the younger generation.  iPods are hugely popular with this age group, so finding a way to listen to their favorite music while in their car had to be an option.  Hence, the iPod car adapter.  If your vehicle didn’t come with one, there are other options.

iPod car adapters allow your iPod to work through your cars audio system.  They are designed specifically for iPods, and the wireless versions connect through the digital dock connector.  These handy little inventions allow you to listen to your favorite music over the stereo system in your car.

There are a few different iPod car adapters available depending on your needs.  The choices you have to choose from include wireless adaptors, cassette adapters and built in jacks.  Wireless adapters broadcast through a user selected FM radio station.  Occasionally, you may get interference through other FM signals, and they are a bit more expensive than cassette adapters.

One of the greatest things about an iPod is the ability you have to carry music with you.  Newer models allow you to carry as many as 10,000 tracks, without toting hundreds of CD’s around and having to dig through them to find the music you want to hear.  iPod adapters range from advanced to the most basic which allows you to play music through your cassette player.

While choosing a wireless iPod car adapter is probably best, there are a few things you should know.  Since FM radio signals can interfere with reception, you need to know how to reduce this.  Locating an unused FM frequency will solve the problem.  By checking the low and high end of the dial, you will more than likely find an unused frequency quickly. 

For even better reception, finding an FM frequency that is unused and has empty signals on both sides is even better.  If that isn’t possible, try to find one that has the weakest signal interference on both sides.  For example, if the station 98.5 is unused, check to see if 98.4 and 98.6 are also empty.  This is the perfect solution for the clearest sound quality.

In big cities, finding an unused FM frequency is getting more and more difficult, if not altogether impossible.  In this scenario, it is probably best to use a cassette adapter or built-in jack.  No matter which iPod car adapter you end up using, you will love cruising around, windows down and a breeze blowing through your hair, your favorite music playing in the background!

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Flaming Lips Tickets – Flaming Lips Prepare For U.s. Road Trip This Spring

2009 was a busy year for the Flaming Lips, but the Oklahoma-based psychedelic-space rock band is set to have an even busier 2010! The Flaming Lips spent ample time in the studio last year, releasing their first double album Embryonic in October, followed by a track-for-track remake of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon in December. Pitchfork announced on March 2 that Wayne Coyne & Co. will embark upon a U.S. tour this spring which will continue into summer and include a date at Tennessee’s Bonnaroo Music Festival.

The Flaming Lips will begin their road trip in Austin, Texas on March 12, and a press release about the tour promises a live set that is “more impossibly Orange (like sunshine) than ever.” From there, the Flaming Lips will continue on to cities like Charlottesville, VA; Ithaca, NY; Montclair, NJ; Milwaukee, WI; Bloomington, IN; West Palm Beach, FL; Oxford, ME; New York, NY and more. Head to StubHub.com for Flaming Lips tickets to see them live. Stardeath and White Dwarfs will join the Lips for the majority of their tour dates, including a June 11 gig at Bonnaroo, where they will perform the iconic Dark Side of the Moon album in its entirety along with their normal live fare.

Embryonic was recorded at studios in Fredonia, NY and the Flaming Lips’ Oklahoma City hometown with longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann. Last year, frontman Wayne Coyne told Billboard.com, “Somewhere along the way, it occurred to me that we should do a double album. Just this idea that you can weave a couple of themes into there and you can sprawl a little bit.” The follow-up to 2006’s At War with the Mystics, Embryonic is the Flaming Lips’ 12th studio album, and it certainly got a stamp of approval from Rolling Stone. Reviewing the album, the music magazine gushed, “These psych-rock mystics haven’t sounded so off-the-wall since they were Oklahoma acidheads in the Eighties.”

Only the Flaming Lips would attempt to re-make the classic Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon, and when the band did so they recruited Stardeath and White Dwarfs. The album also features guest vocals by Henry Rollins and Peaches. Although only currently available as a digital release, the Lips’ version of Dark Side will be released as a limited-edition vinyl starting on April 17 and CD format on May 4, reported LiveDaily.com. The Flaming Lips, Stardeath and White Dwarfs performed Dark Side in its entirety at an event dubbed New Years Eve Freakout on Dec. 31 in Oklahoma City.

According to Spinner, Coyne pondered remaking Black Sabbath’s first album at one point. “As we were doing Dark Side of the Moon we thought, just as your mind tends to, ‘What other records could we do?’ We had considered, as the grouping, that we might cover Black Sabbath’s first record,” said Coyne before explaining, “We like enough of the Black Sabbath songs, it’s short and probably enough people know a few of their songs that it would be interesting.” Stay tuned to see if Coyne and the rest of the Lips decide to take on Black Sabbath after all.

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