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The best players know that golf is a game of confidence, and most important, concentration–the ability to focus and block out distraction. The goal of achieving clear thought is also at the heart of Buddhist teachings. In his highly original and groundbreaking book, noted PGA coach and Buddhist instructor, Dr. Joseph Parent, draws on this natural connection and teaches golfers how to clear their minds, achieve ultimate focus, and play in the moment for each shot.

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Steve Jobs announces the iCloud, June 2011. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Two years ago, CBSNews.com headlined an article “Steve Jobs a Music Visionary?” Personally, we’d scrap that question mark. The 56-year-old behind Apple recently stepped down as CEO due to health issues, leaving behind a company that has, among many other things, altered forever the way we create, consume, process and enjoy music (not too mention a new set of fanboys, the Cult of Mac). Now the pre-iPod days feel like some dystopian, Mad Max wasteland, where music was carried around one “disc” at a time, purchased from “stores” you left your house to go to, and a click wheel was something most likely associated with a hamster. Jobs was hardly just a face for the company, having amassed more than 300 patents on everything from Macintosh computers to iPod packaging. Here are five ways the Jobs forever changed music.

1. Any song. Anytime. Anywhere: The iPod Conquers All With Simplicity

The iPod wasn’t the first MP3 player on the market, but when it was released in October 2001 the only question was who would take second place. While Jobs’ competitors loaded their products with bells and whistles, Apple kept it simple, ensuring that even your grandma could use the iPod. Now your entire music collection could fit on a gadget the size of a business card. 10 billion songs later (really), it’s still the player to beat.

2. iTunes as the New Marketplace

Though the heady Wild West days of Napster was a boon for many, it obviously put a wrinkle in artist’s and labels wallets – where resorting to lawsuits after watching millions of their songs illegally downloaded and shared became commonplace. The original iTunes didn’t have a store, but once Apple was able to negotiate terms the labels, artists of all sizes could sell their music and earn a little pocket change. Debuting in 2003, iTunes would become the single biggest music retailer, online or otherwise, five short years later.

3. The Death of the Album

Jobs conquered the future by nodding to the past, allowing consumers to revert back to the 1950s and focus on singles over albums. Bummer for your prog friend making a concept album, but good news for the rest of us, who were able to pick and choose which tracks to buy at .99 a pop. Some artists understandably lamented the diminishing effect of the full-length, but for a generation of consumers sick of discovering their .98 purchase yielded two or three good songs, Jobs changed the game.

4. Amateur Creation

Yes, this is a double-edged sword — with 70 lifetimes’ worth of music available, listening to your friend’s “sick drum ‘n’ bass mix” can be a drag — but when Apple unveiled GarageBand in 2004 and Logic Studio in 2007, it allowed anyone to easily create and edit music on their computer. The quality levels may have been divergent, but the democratization of music continued.

5. The rise of laptop DJs

Jobs’ powerful MacBooks, in tandem with Serato, allowed DJs to easily switch from back-breaking crate-carrying of records to putting entire collections on their laptops. While some DJs looked at Serato as cheating, many were relieved and excited at having an exponentially bigger music selection to choose from — ensuring that the age old DJ mission of crowd-stumping would continue on.

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Alt-country fans were fed up with the lack of Ryan Adams output over the last few years. Besides a questionable “metal” album in 2010 called Orion and an outtakes record called III/IV, the last real thing the checker-plaid troubadour released was 2008′s Cardinology. That album had a few memorable moments, but it mostly felt like the singer-songwriter was running on fumes. And maybe he was. Since then, he’s settled down in the quiet hills of Los Angeles with actress/pop singer Mandy Moore and remained relatively quiet, until now. Today Adams released a new single, titled “Lucky Now,” alongside news that his new record Ashes & Fire is on the horizon. The song begins with just him and an acoustic, reminiscent of those early Heartbreaker days, or those sparse moments on Love is Hell. From there it quickly evolves into a mid-tempo country ballad, with a complimentary piano line and some subtle electric guitar.

A constant source of frustration for Adams’ fans is that he’s more than willing to release a wealth of material out into the public. But that material was either jokey side project-type stuff that felt like drunken mistakes, or actual studio recordings that lacked the lyrical depth of his early work. As luck would have it, “Lucky Now” feels like vintage Adams: forlorn, romantic, twangy and sentimental. But most of all, it feels like he’s back to the simplicity that lined his early post-Whiskeytown days.

Ashes & Fire is out October 11 via Pax-Am Recordings.

Stream “Lucky Now” below.

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26-year-old Stephen Bruner’s resumé would be the envy of musicians twice his age. At 15, the virtuoso bassist garnered his first hit as part of boy band No Curfew. Two years later, he began touring with Suicidal Tendencies, a job he still holds today. Now having backed everyone from Snoop Dogg to Erykah Badu, Bruner’s performing under the alias Thundercat, he’s released The Golden Age of Apocalypse, a Sun Ra-meets-Jaco Pastorius-meets-Roy Ayers psychedelic jazz head trip, produced entirely by Flying Lotus.

Yet Apocalypse isn’t the first pairing of the producer with his protégé — the bassist appeared on Lotus’s 2010 album Cosmogramma — but it’s the most potent. This is Voltron; the result of two gifted and warped musicians uniting and avoiding any musical dilution. Otherworldly, abstract sounds blend with virtuosic chord progressions and complex, layered beats that lay the bed for smoothed-out acid jazz; it’s the sound of Pharoah Sanders embracing hip-hop, yet not succumbing to the bloated sounds of so many ‘90s rap-jazz hybrids.

With help from sonic peers SA-RA Creative Partners, J*Davey and his drummer brother Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat reworks and updates an old musical hybrid for a modern era. Hip-hop and jazz’s love affair goes back more than 20 years, but many of those classic records looked to equally classic Blue Note samples as their muse. With Apocalypse, Thundercat and Lotus go deeper, mining spacier, more experimental sonic ground; spaced-out beats over spaced-out chords ushering in new life into a stale genre. [Stream The Golden Age of Apocalypse via Hype Machine]

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