The song is, I believe, “Times Like These.”

I have to believe that the line “I’m a new day rising” is a conscious reference to the influential band Hüsker Dü’s classic album “New Day Rising.”

I’m a bad person, Jason.

That’s just “Foo Fighters,” Dan.

It’s The Foo Fighters!

“They’ve won 11 Grammy awards, including 5 in the last year alone.” “And if you haven’t seen them before, you’ve been about to discover why.”

“Whenever we have a music event, we like to remind ourselves and our customers of why we do what we do. And there’s no better way to do that than to have one of our favorite musical artists performance.”

“They are doing the best work of their lives. Work that has real significance. Because delivering revolutionary products make a real difference in people’s lives.”

“Apple has never been stronger, and that’s because of the dedication and creativity of employees throughout the world.”

“Only Apple could create such amazing hardware, software and services.”

“When you look at each of these, they are incredibly industry-leading innovations by themselves. But what sets them apart and what places Apple way ahead of the competition is how they work so well together.”

Tim’s reviewing what’s been discussed today. A whole new iPod lineup. A brand new iTunes. And iPhone 5.

Jumping iPods changing colors as they bounce around.

With an iPod ad.

And here’s Tim.

To date Apple has contributed over $50 million to fighting AIDS in Africa, via Product RED devices.

There are Product RED models as well, of the shuffle, nano, and touch.

The new nano and new touch are available in October.

The new iPod touch: 32GB for $299 and 64GB for $399.

The old, fourth-generation iPod touch: 16GB for $199 and 32GB for $249.

iPod nano is 16GB for $149, with seven colors.

iPod shuffle is still 2GB, at $49 with seven new colors.

But they’re going to be included with the new iPod touch, the iPod nano, and the new iPhone 5. (Aw, no shuffle.)

These are going to start shipping as a standalone accessory starting today.

Shape of earpod is defined by geometry of ears, but don’t create a seal.

They made 3D scans of hundreds of ears.

(This may be good news, because boy do I hate the current iPod headphones.)

Here’s a video on what it took to create a breakthrough like this.

Look unlike any headphone you’ve ever heard before. The controls on the wire are bigger and easier to use, too.

Spent three years in designing an entirely new headphone. EarPods.

Doing a great headphone is hard, because ears are really really challenging. But you gotta make one size fit all.

Over 1.2 billion little speakers.

But we also include speakers in headphones. Shipped well over 600 million sets of headphones.

Apple is one of the biggest providers of speakers in the entire world. Sound is so important to products, that they’re integrated in everything they sell. Macs, iOS devices, iPods.

Turn attention to something else important to music, and that’s speakers.

That’s the iPod lineup for the holiday.

And they’ve updated the colors on the shuffle as well.

(The front plate may always be white, though?)

Each comes with its own color-coordinated loop.

Silver black, blue, yellow, and red.

And for the first time, it comes in colors.

And it’s got Siri, too.

Naturally, it’s running iOS 6, too.

This doesn’t feel quite like last year’s iPhone, which iPod touch has in the past.

AirPlay Mirroring for the first time on the iPod touch.

Improved wireless capabilities as well. Upgrade Bluetooth to 4.0 with low energy. 802.111 a/b/g/n and dual band N, with up to 150Mbps performance.

Improved front camera to a FaceTime HD camera, 720p HD video, backside illumination, face detection, etc.

HD video is better as well. 1080p HD video recording, image stabilization, and face detection.

Included with new iPod touch.

Added security for when you’re taking pictures or walking around town.

But there’s more! May have noticed a little circle on the back of the iPod touch. A feature called iPod touch loop. Push it, it pops up and you can attach a wrist strap to your iPod touch.

Improved front camera to a FaceTime HD camera, 720p HD video, backside illumination, face detection, etc.

HD video is better as well. 1080p HD video recording, image stabilization, and face detection.

Included with new iPod touch.

Added security for when you’re taking pictures or walking around town.

But there’s more! May have noticed a little circle on the back of the iPod touch. A feature called iPod touch loop. Push it, it pops up and you can attach a wrist strap to your iPod touch.

And it has the panorama feature.

Significantly improved autoexposure for darkness and better outdoor and indoor at low light.

The camera. iPod touch customers like to shoot pictures and video. For the first time, they’re building in an iSight camera. 5 megapixels, and it’s the latest technology for sensors and lenses. Autofocus and LED flash for the first time. Just like the iPhone 5, it has a sapphire crystal lens cover.

(That’s the most surreal sentence I’ve ever typed during a liveblog.)

Now they’re tickling a clumsy ninja.

iPod touch can calculate all motions and reactions in real time.

Character based on a real-time simulation of body, muscles, and central nervous system. Clumsy NInja is self-aware, aware of his environment, and fully interactive.

A5 processor with dual-core, up to 2x CPU, and dual core graphics that boosts graphics by up to 7x over A4.

Bigger display great for music, widescreen video, and great for gaming.

Retina display, same 4-inch screen in the iPhone 5. Increase screen size without sacrificing any portability or one-handed operation.

Made it out of anodized aluminum. On the bottom, headphone jack, speaker, and headphone connector.

Only 6.1mm thin. Thinnest iPod touch ever, but almost as thin as iPod nano. It’s just 88 grams. Lightest iPod touch ever.

All new, fifth generation iPod touch is here.

Game Center connects you to over 150 million players.

Building fitness and pedometer right in. So you can track your runs and walks, and integrated with Nike+ right out of the box.

And widescreen video too.

Full album art and touch controls on the screen; integrated FM tuner has live pause. And photos look great on the screen.

Comes in colors: white, black, purple, green, blue, yellow, and red/pink. Color matched wallpaper on each model with the outside color.

There’s now a Home button.

But that’s the biggest display, at 2.5″, and it’s multitouch.

5.4mm thin. Almost 40% thinner than the one it replaces. Thinnest nano ever created. Really big, easy to use controls for volume, and play/pause without ever having to look at display.

Seventh generation iPod nano is by far the best nano ever created. (Looks like a mini iOS device almost).

Want to give it a really large display, really easy to use controls, thin and light and make it from lightweight high-quality materials, and the latest technologies like Lightning connector.

Nano, from the very beginning, was about the best ultraportable music experience. When looked to create a new iPod nano, wanted to reinvent it to make it an even better music player.

iPod and music are part of the DNA of the company, exciting changes to the lineup today.

iPod’s changed the way we all listen to music, says Greg. iPod is most popular music player of all time. More than 350 million iPods.

Greg Joswiak is here to bring an update on the iPod.

Recap: simplified user interface, play media from iCloud, new media player, up next, and the redesigned iTunes Store. Available in late October.

That’s some of the new features of iTunes. Eddy’s back.

There’s now Concert info in the store too, so you can see tour information and what concerts are near you.

Previews keep playing in background while you’re browsing the store.

Redesigned store on iTunes that looks like your store on the iPad. Quick to cycle through promos or albums.

You can pick up watching a movie right where you left off on one of your other devices.

iCloud’s built right in, so all purchases are right in your library. Switch to movies and you can see everything on your computer as well as what’s on iCloud.

There’s built-in search in the mini-player, as well as Up Next, so you can queue up songs.

Improved the new mini-player too. There’s an icon in the top right corner. Miniplayer is totally resdesigned; rollover for the controls.

Artists can even share photos with you right in your library by clicking on Gallery.

Beautiful new design on iPad. Everything is faster, with large showcases on top to show you things. TV shows, movies, App Store, and iBookstore. Also on iPhone 5.

More than 66% of their downloads come from iTunes devices. So all stores have been redesigned for iOS.

With that, now have 435 million accounts all with one-click purchasing. All of these customers can easily shop from anywhere from iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or iTunes on Mac and PC.

Last year, iTunes Store was available in 23 countries. Today, the iTunes Store is now available in 63 countries around the world.

“Let’s talk about iTunes. The iTunes Store is the number one music store in the world, and offers more than 26 million songs. All of you have purchased and downloaded over 20 billion songs.”

Same prices at the 4S. $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB, and $399 for 64GB, along with 2-year carrier contract.

Just two questions left “How much do I have to spend?”

Here’s a video!

Phil’s recapping all the innovations.

iPhone 5 comes in all-black design with slate back, but there’s a white iPhone as well, glass is white, got a bright silver aluminum finish.

Phil’s back.

That’s iOS 6.

Those are just a few of the new features in iOS 6. There’s much more: Facebook integration throughout the OS, great enhancements to Phone app like automated SMS or iMessage back when you can’t answer the phone, FaceTime works over cellular data network. Great enhancements for accessibility, including Single App Mode. Only 10 of the more than 200 new features in iOS 6.

Facebook’s integrated too, so you can post right from Siri.

Tap make reservation, and it’ll take you to Open Table.

Can also make reservations too. “Find a sushi restaurant for 4 around 8pm.”

Ask for a movie recommendation, and it will return films sorted by rating.

Scott’s fantasy football team is apparently named Multi-Touchdown.

Siri’s learned about movies too.

You can launch apps by talking to your phone.

Sports scores and standings.

Ah, it’s football season now, so we have a football demo instead of a baseball demo.

Siri’s been updated as well. Can answer sports questions.

Comment on photos, and you can Like photos as well.

Shared photo streams is next. Create a photo stream and when you add photos to it it shares them to your friends.

Boarding pass automatically appears on the lockscreen when you’re nearby.

(But what if you want to keep your stubs!?)

Shred a ticket when you’re done with it.

Passbook is next. This is the way to collect all your passes in one place: movie tickets, airline boarding pass, coupon, store card with a balance, ticket for a concert, a ticket for a baseball game.

Also a lot easier to flag something. Tap a flag icon to flag, and you can access it via a Flagged mailbox.

All of these interfaces look so much spacious on the new phone hardware. The list of messages in Mail seems impossibly long.

Next is Mail. Added a feature called VIPs, which lets you mark people as VIPs and all message from them in the inbox are collected in one place.

Now in IOS 6, you can get back to anything you have open on any of your dvices on the go. iCloud Tabs shows you the four windows open back on your Mac.

Also built in free turn-by-turn directions.

Info card includes info, reviews from Yelp, and photos.

Here’s a demo of a few features. The map now has vector-based maps that are speedy, 100 million points of interest in a search engine.

Designed from the beginning to take advantage of the Retina display. For the first time, showing iOS 6 running on the new iPhone 5. Here’s Scott Forstall to talk about it.

One of the most important features of the iPhone is its software, and we have iOS 6.

That’s the new Lightning connector.

What about all those devices you have now that use 30-pin connector? Bunch of accessories. Here’s a 30-pin-to-Lightning adapter. Plug your 30-pin cable into it, and it into your iPhone 5. For example, in your car, you can plug your adapter in there.

Working with accessory makers to help them integrate connectors. Great partners like Bose, JBL, Bowers and Wilkins, Bang and Olufsen and many more.

Tap and say you want to take a panorama, hold your phone vertical, and just sweep your scene. Software tells you what pace to move it at.

Shared photo streams in iOS 6 let you share photos with friends. But new feature in iPhone 5 is Panorama.

Macro photo. Showing us the veins in the wings of a bee.

“These are from the camera, untouched. The ocean just looks bluer on the iPhone 5. Kids look happier. And the world is just a more beautiful place.”

All adds up to simply using it and showing what kind of pictures you can get.

New image signal processor built into A6 chip. Spatial noise reduction can remove noise, a smart filter looks at image before ISP does noise reduction and figures out which areas should be uniform color or texture, there’s better low-light performance, and faster photo capture. Now 40% faster.

Optical system includes precision lens alignment. Measuring down to the micron level to get better aligned lenses. For the first time, cap off this system with a sapphire lens cover. Helps protect your lens and make your images clearer and sharper.

Didn’t stop there. Enhanced it even further. Dynamic low-light mode; can sense low light and combine elements for 2 f-stops greater.

The biggest challenge in a camera is vertical height. Ask them to make a better camera. 8 megapixel sensor, 3264×2448, backside illuminated, hybrid IR filter, five-element lens, and a fast f/2.4 aperture. 25% smaller.

Next, the camera.

They’ve not only matched but exceeded battery life of 4S. 8 hours of 3G talk time and browsing, and LTE browsing, 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music, 225 hours of standby time.

The next challenge is to match the battery life of the 4S in a thinner and lighter design.

“Truly epitomizes what can be done in the palm of your hand with that A6 chip.”

Phil’s back.

Coming to the App Store later this year.

Used Game Center to produce a feature of time-shifted multiplayer. Can challenge someone one day and race them the next day.

Rear view mirrors in a racing game.

Car and track reflect dynamically in sides of the car.