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Archive for October, 2007


Click Magnet Music Websites

by Julie Blake,


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Wouldn’t it be amazing if you poured all your passion and creativity into your website and fans flocked to it and spent lots of money? It can be done, but only if you know the magic spell that transforms an ordinary website into an irresistible click magnet.
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Rise of the Human Being

by Mark Kirby,

Electronica and the rise of machines in music, like machines everywhere, are moving to include, eclipse, and displace people and the human touch. iPods replace DJ’s in clubs. A buddy of mine pointed out that from Broadway to Las Vegas, living musicians are being replaced by synthesizers and drum machines. Karaoke is now considered an art form and folks who pay $50 to $500 to see a “live show” see a “band” playing computer music. And if there is a live band, as in the case of, say, Beyonce’s ongoing tour, the musicians interface with and are subservient to, the almighty machine in the form of click tracks, videos and other special effects.
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Amy Speace Steps Out

By Timothy Peters,

The picture of a radiant Amy Speace that graces the cover of her equally radiant new CD, Songs for Bright Street, captures the Jersey City-based singer/songwriter in a candid moment, laughing broadly, her right hand either doffing or trying on a straw hat of the vaguely urban cowgirl variety.
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