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Exclaim! Magazine Selects Kobo Town’s Independence As Top 10 Album of 2007

Toronto-based, roots-calypso act Kobo Town is capping a pivotal year with their debut album ‘Independence’ being selected in Exclaim! Magazine “Year in Review 2007.” Voted a Top 10 “Groove” Album of 2007, following Amy Winehouse and M.I.A, Independence was the only album by an unsigned act in the category. The band was also recognized by the 2007 Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards with a Best World Song Award for “Corbeaux Following.”
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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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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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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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by The Music Connect,

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Radio is becoming more and more important in an artists career, but steady radio play is becoming harder and harder to obtain. The best way for an artist to get radio play that people are listening to is satellite radio via XM or Sirius. This form of radio is more supportive and accepting of independent and unsigned artists.
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This summer again, the French produced artists will be taking the international route, playing the biggest festivals across the globe.

With more than 5,000 French concert dates recorded abroad in 2006, including 1,500 in the US, 1,350 in Germany and 600 in the UK, the strength of French performances has been confirmed, especially in the summer festival scene.
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Germany, Land of Music! Popkomm Chooses Germany As Partner Country!

Presenting German music to the international industry - Initiatives by the music industry and cultural policy-makers to promote German music

Einst?rzende Neubauten, Kraftwerk and Rammstein are internationally known names, as are Nena, Seeed, Paul van Dyk and Tokio Hotel. But there is much more to German music than just these artists. In order to alert the international music industry to all that Germany can offer in this field, Popkomm has selected Germany as its partner country in 2007.
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How Choosing The Wrong Band Name Could Be The MOST Expensive Decision Of Your Career

by Nick Nanton,

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Ok, so you and all of your buddies sit down one day and decide to form a band. You sit down at your first impromptu “business meeting” over a case of cold coke (insert other favorite band beverage here) and you start your checklist:

1. Instruments: Check
2. Rehearsal Space (Your Friend’s Garage): Check
3. Molly Hatchet Songbook: Check
4. Band Name: ……………

… a blank stare stretches across everyone’s face, and thus your band has hit its first of many roadblocks on the road to becoming “The Next Big Thing.” So, you do what every other band does, you think back to your favorite band names in movies, your favorite one liners in Monty Python skits as well as “Saturday Night Live,” and all of your other favorite shows and FINALLY someone comes up with a name that everyone loves (or more likely everyone can somewhat live with) and The Band is born.
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