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Just one of those neat things… You know how when you hear a song you love so often that it just resonates with you, and it doesn’t surprise you when it pops up other places?
I’m working on an article in the office, and I can hear Lori watching Men in Trees from the living room. [...]

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With not a whole lot of rumor or speculation, the fate of the American Idol Songwriter contest for 2008 was up in the air until this week, when officials reopened the contest site to the public.
By all accounts, this year’s contest is just like last year’s contest. Key points:

You have just under ten [...]

It’s tough enough to be a record executive these days. Your budget’s shrinking, your staff keep leaving to join tech startups, and you keep having to figure out which one of your interns is the one who’s leaking your biggest acts rough mixes to BitTorrent.
At least you always had SXSW to look forward to, right?
Apparently, [...]

Are we so transparent about marketing these days that it’s okay for NBC to just slap a box on their pages that blatantly says, “CROSS PROMOTE?”

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Ann Powers writes longingly of the “wave of Eva-mania” in the late 1990s, and I remember it well. So it surprised her and others when American Idol contestant David Archuleta won compliments from the panel for his “original” cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
It’s a peculiar thing about music that you internalize the first time you [...]

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Seems like everyone’s on the free bandwagon this week. I don’t know if this was on the site before the Oscar win, but you can download a copy of “Falling Slowly” in MP3 with no DRM, right from the Fox Searchlight website.
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Remarkable acceptance speeches from Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova:

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Just back from vacation, I see a few notes in my box asking if I have any new books coming out.
Yes and no.
If you haven’t visited the site in a while, you might have missed a list of the topics I’m exploring this year. Somewhere in that list, there’s another book brewing, though I [...]

I’m just back from vacation, which is why posting’s been light. While I catch up, check out this excellent advice from Bobby Borg…

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