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2006-05-17T09:39:00.000-07:00

2006-03-24T03:57:00.000-08:00

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2006-02-12T13:05:00.000-08:00

Bacharach doesn't like the look of things, gets political at ...San Diego Union Tribune, United States - 5 hours ago... stirring things up wasn't an angry rapper or a menacing heavy-metal marauder ... of such 1960s pop classics as “The Look of Love” and “Say a Little Prayer.”. ...
SERENITY: BAD GIRL IN TOWN (Vol. 1)Active Anime (press release) - Feb 8, 2006... seeing Serenity for the first time, Derek, a member of the Prayer Club, remarks ... the fact that she eats sugary cereal and listens to heavy metal music really ...
Bon Jovi's talent lies with the ladiesMilwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI - Jan 28, 2006... of Roses" or "I'll Be There For You." "Livin' On a Prayer" did make ... Finally there is Bon Jovi, the heavy metal gunslinger, as evoked in "Blaze of Glory" and ...
Israel's Vibrations: With Marley in the Holy LandJamaica Observer, Jamaica - Feb 4, 2006... As we pulled through the heavy metal gate, we drove past a Pub festooned ... the spooky over-amplified cries of the Muslim muezzins calling the faithful to prayer. ...
Colombian sings from the heartSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - Feb 4, 2006... A Dios le Pido" ("I Ask God"), now considered an anthem and prayer for peace. ... At 15, he started playing heavy metal and rebelled against his heritage and family ...
Church weathers sex abuse charges and fire damageBaltimore Sun, United States - Feb 10, 2006... An acrid smell still hung heavy in the 1,000 ... of a keyboard synthesizer as Zant called out in prayer. ... guiding the congregation in raising metal frames, carving ...
Inside OdaysatAmerican Daily, OH - Jan 26, 2006... 2006 at 6:30 PM, a group of Copts gathered for prayer at Holy ... s electricity and brandishing weapons including small swords, knives, axes, and heavy metal chains ...
Here are some rules on when to stormESPN - Jan 26, 2006... went down to the wire, but it wasn't won at the buzzer on a prayer.). ... This isn't football, where the fans mount heavy metal objects and send them crashing down ...
Scotsman
Well-kent phrases from the Bard's best poemsScotsman, United Kingdom - Jan 23, 2006... Sayings suggests the line came from The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer, the parody ... tea clipper, a brand of Scotch whisky and even a German heavy metal band. ...
Exhibit's objects revered through timeMilwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI - Feb 2, 2006... drinking glass and the bottom of a metal canister. ... Columbus and his men depended on the power of prayer. ... That's because this heavy crown proved to be good news ...

Spiritual success Calvary Christian School focuses on God and the ...New Brunswick Home News Tribune, NJ - Jan 28, 2006... Michelle Paxton keeps a blue-and-pink prayer box on her desk, just steps away from her metal bookshelves where ... a brand-new school and there was heavy focus on ...
Memorial mass and concert for Katowice tragedy victimsRadio Polonia, Poland - Feb 3, 2006... Holy Father stated he was united in prayer with the ... Heavy equipment will have to be used with caution as ... victims are still under the heaps of metal remnants of ...
E-ECONOMIC NEWSLETTERFree Market News Network, FL - Feb 1, 2006... Well, at this point I need a heavy medication regimen ... the stuff!" So, in answer to your prayer, I am ... precisely into about 625 million ounces of the grey metal. ...
Ribur Rinpocheis no more, His Story Remains with UsPhayul, Tibet - Jan 20, 2006... It was so heavy that three strong men could barely ... A Precious Metal Foundry, situated about five kilometres to ... We joined the prayer, although we could not pray ...
Lessons from SomaliaKhaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - Jan 15, 2006... He keeps in touch with God with the prayer beads ... Each is opened, with some effort, by a metal strip that ... In the centre is a mounted heavy machine-gun, manned by ...
Proudly hosted by IGN FAQsIGN, CA - Jan 20, 2006... A - AKA THE "PATER NOSTER" Q - WHAT IS THE LORD'S PRAYER? ... A - PHOTOGRAPHY USES LIGHT-SENSITIVE SALTS OF THIS METAL Q - WHAT IS SILVER? ...
Haunted Places in The United KingdomOnly Idol, MS - Jan 26, 2006... But the king pretended to be at prayer and ignored her ... However, there was an old metal guard tower in the Northeast ... his M-16 and kicked open the heavy iron door ...
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Ultimate fighterCorvallis Gazette Times, OR - Jan 15, 2006Cory Reeves hung from a 250-kilogram metal drum, his body ... He was pounding the heavy bag in the gym and passed out. ... There was a lot of prayer leading up to the ...
Ageless wondersPress-Enterprise (subscription), CA - Jan 27, 2006... was taken by the group's guitar-heavy sound, which ... crowd, which leaves Duran without a prayer of getting in ... capacity room with young punkers and metal-heads for ...
We'd hate to offendThe Observer, UK - Jan 14, 2006... of the more emblematic kind: big, backlit assemblages, heavy on symbolism ... crown, a Judaic ornament, and two mildly phallic metal objects that ... 'prayer containers ...

2006-01-08T05:35:00.000-08:00

A look back at local music
Dayton Daily News (subscription), OH - Jan 6, 2006
... classic elements such as '70s heavy metal, Southern rock ... is an amalgam of melodic smarts, indie work ethos ... the Story Changes' Last Night A Rock Band Saved My ...
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A poor first impression
This is London, UK - Jan 6, 2006
... pop of Hear'Say and the nu-metal racket of ... work with Cher and Paul McCartney), the band's once-skeletal ... stations, even if it alienates the indie-rock fans who ...

Italian rock band Lacuna Coil taps into 'Karma'
Reuters - Jan 5, 2006
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Italian hard rock act Lacona Coil ... biggest in the history of the band's indie label, Century ... which specializes in the varied metal genres ...

Rock/Pop
New York Times, United States - Jan 5, 2006
... ANTHRAX (Tomorrow) The amiable speed punk-metal band Anthrax had a ... Sand) and her band make guitar rock that gives ... of the less-is-more indie-rock trio Galaxie ...

Cause nighttime is the right time
San Diego CityBEAT, CA - Jan 4, 2006
... Wed: Metal Skool. Thur: Sabotage. ... Mon: Electric Waste Band. ... Thur: “Yeah” w/ Gabe Vega & Saul (indietronic, b-sides, electronica, indie rock). ...

Drumming up business
WFAA (subscription), TX - Jan 4, 2006
... inspiration then and now is fellow indie imprints Wind ... which partners with the mega-selling metal rockers on ... this as the year when "the rock independent music ...

LA Weekly 10 Albums That Stank Up the Room
LA Weekly, CA - Jan 4, 2006
... An OG indie-rock wuss, Barlow was shedding tears over misplaced ... racket at Guitar Center has a band called Coheed ... will suffocate you with their elfin metal magic ...

Reviewer picks favorite tunes of '05
Great Falls Tribune, MT - Jan 5, 2006
... both mainstream music and on the indie scene if ... people consider these guys an adult contemporary rock band. ... Vitus guitarist and doom metal legend Dave Chandler ...

Music Listings
Nashville City Paper, TN - Jan 4, 2006
... Foxy Shazam Bizarre blend of soul and metal w/guests ... JT Gray Band 9 pm, Station Inn, 402 12th Ave S ... join with folk collective Lylas and indie rock bellwether The ...

Night After Night
San Antonio Express (subscription), TX - Jan 5, 2006
... Jack's Patio Bar —Hard-touring indie rockers Nothing More lead ... and inventive of the area's independent rock crews. ... of roots, punk and even some metal that'll

2005-12-26T03:09:00.000-08:00

Stealth Sounds That Missed the Charts but Merit a Hearing
New York Times, United States - Dec 21, 2005
... seems to work especially well for indie-rock acts, and ... by Paramore, a sugary Warped Tour band led by ... We Are)" is a perfectly lightweight electro-rock concoction ...

The Buzz Bake Sale freshens up its bag of goodies
Broward New Times, FL - Nov 30, 2005
... Spelled as one word, though, it's a sex-fueled, indie-rock band from New York City that blends late-'70s power-pop with '80s synth-rock. ...

Best albums of 2005
Strand (subscription), Canada - Nov 30, 2005
... and "Details of the War" are fantastic showcases for the band's strengths, and by ... Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is a 40-minute powerhouse of incredible indie rock.

Cause nighttime is the right time
San Diego CityBEAT, CA - Dec 14, 2005
... Sun: Joey Bowen. Mon: Electric Waste Band. Tue: Shoestring Strap. ... Thur: “Yeah” w/ Gabe Vega & Saul (indietronic, b-sides, electronica, indie rock). ...

ROCK CHICKS TO MAKE-OVER TV PRESENTER
Horncastle Today, UK - Dec 13, 2005
... current day. While in Australia the girls won an award for best indie/rock band in the state of Victoria for 2005. They faced tough ...

We're big in Japan, I swear...
Robertson County Times, TN - Dec 11, 2005
... Equally adored in the UK is Kings of Leon, the Southern indie rock band that sold out much of a lengthy European tour and recently returned from a set of dates ...

Check it out: The best albums of 2005
Appleton Post Crescent, USA - Dec 18, 2005
... He embraces his inner Springsteen. If you ever wished "Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ" had been made by an indie rock band, here's the answer to your prayers. ...

Lessons in survival from a Jersey band
NorthJersey.com, NJ - Dec 16, 2005
... In 2000, before landing a deal with a major indie label, Conley and Soloway ... as they tour, now without label support, with North Jersey emo rock band Senses Fail ...

DISC DISCUSSIONS
Kansas City Star, MO - Dec 15, 2005
... Painters or solo. Now that he’s working under the Sun Kil Moon moniker, Kozelek turns his attention to indie-rock band Modest Mouse. ...

Top Ten Albums
Chattanooga Pulse, USA - Dec 21, 2005
... This might be the most perfect band ever. ... 10. OutHud: Let Us Never Speak of It Again – This is a fine indie rock/dance record, with one of the most exciting

2005-12-13T00:19:00.000-08:00

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CALL AND RESPONSE: Pickin' Up the Pieces: Sampling from the Great ...PopMatters, IL - Dec 2, 2005... prior to much of the sampling litigation that is ... visual, allowing spare yet exaggerated music movements to ... cliff, expects a valley of twisted metal and carved ...
Updates, advisories and surprisesInvestor's Business Daily (subscription) - Dec 7, 2005... The Cleveland-based metal products company said it expects ... the Grand Ole Opry country music showcase, closed ... $3.47 per share, excluding the litigation costs in ...
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Touched by an UncleTheStranger.com, WA - Nov 24, 2005... greater happiness than rocking out to the heaviest metal. ... enabled him to love white music and hate ... A finger-wagging government and litigation-happy society may ...
SIRIUS Satellite Radio Unveils Exclusive Programming Line-Up for ...PR Newswire (press release), NY - Nov 16, 2005... toy can trace its roots to metal pie tins ... 65 channels of 100% commercial-free music, and features ... is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of ...
Who will be hurt over window pane?Boston Globe, United States - Nov 17, 2005... Frisch, said city officials could not discuss pending litigation. ... old student at the nearby Berklee College of Music. ... t match, vinyl windows, and metal ducts. ...

If you love music, become a plumberTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Dec 8, 2005... got lumped in mistakenly with prog rock's show-off ... t mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. ... taking care of business, dealing with litigation, with the ...
Free Music Site Seeks Real ExposurePC Magazine - Dec 6, 2005While members of the 1960s rock band Cream probably ... a settlement in their long-running antitrust litigation. ... Search, MSN Messenger and MSN Music services over ...
TheStranger.com
Touched by an UncleTheStranger.com, WA - Nov 24, 2005... what enabled him to love white music and hate ... youthful flings with sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll ... A finger-wagging government and litigation-happy society may be ...
Linkin Park, Warner Bros. Kiss, Make UpAversion - Dec 8, 2005... label -- and the huge-price-tage litigation against it. ... which sought to extricate the rap-rock mooks from ... because of money poured into Warner Music Group’s ...
CALL AND RESPONSE: Pickin' Up the Pieces: Sampling from the Great ...PopMatters, IL - Dec 2, 2005... Four men dress like another popular rock group, enact each ... down on the reproductive rights of hip-hop music. ... prior to much of the sampling litigation that is ...
Sony faces lawsuits over software debacleNewsOK.com (subscription), OK - Dec 2, 2005... only a whiff of the stench of litigation descending on ... people who are actually still buying your music (fewer and ... I have seen the future of rock 'n' roll, and ...
Earvolution
Johnny Cash tops list of greatest music comebacksEarvolution, MD - Nov 18, 2005... of "Which one's Pink?" But yesterday's litigation can be ... of a non-fraternization policy amongst rock bands. ... channeled their angst into the music and produced ...
Dennis M. KennedyCorante - Nov 25, 2005... Tom Mighell is Senior Counsel and Litigation Technology Support Coordinator at Cowles & ... Ernie on guitar and Dennis' encylopedic knowledge of rock music, we may ...
Highlights of rising and falling US stocksInvestor's Business Daily (subscription) - Dec 1, 2005... Florida Rock Industries (FRK) reported fourth-quarter earnings of ... real estate gains from a litigation settlement, offset ... Warner Music Group (WMG), the New York ...
Music Is Listening to HimLos Angeles Times, CA - Nov 23, 2005... with a record label accompanying rock stars such as ... Wilshire Boulevard headquarters housed several litigation "war rooms ... the very people the music industry once ...

Creedence's Fogerty back on the roadNew Zealand Herald, New Zealand - Nov 19, 2005... up back-to-back hits - to being mired in litigation with his ... from San Francisco's Bay Area, Fogerty soaked up 50s rock'n'roll and black music from the ...
John Lennon's first wife out to set the record straightAZ Central.com, AZ - Dec 1, 2005... to ride with one of the greatest rock bands of ... wealth to bankrupt Cynthia Lennon in litigation, the author ... Ono, who is routinely described by music critics and ...
Highlights of rising and falling US stocksInvestor's Business Daily (subscription) - Dec 1, 2005... Florida Rock Industries (FRK) jumped 12% after it reported ... real estate gains from a litigation settlement, offset ... Warner Music Group (WMG) added 5.5% after it ...
TV Guide and TV Land Join Forces To Count Down The 100 Most ...PR Newswire (press release), NY - Nov 30, 2005... (11/27/66) 53 COP ROCK STEPHEN BOCHCO'S ... pricing; ongoing and potential future litigation; and the ... television programming services -- MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2 ...
A bad contract tore New Orleans' Meters apart, but they're back ...San Francisco Chronicle, United States - Nov 14, 2005... The band retooled itself into a rock-and-funk ... At the time, the Meters' music was becoming relevant to ... More than two decades later, he continues his litigation. ...
Pulse of the Twin Cities
Facing darkness in the season of lightPulse of the Twin Cities, MN - Nov 23, 2005... known for his “marathon rock performances,” achieving ... special interests,” like World Music and jazz ... Offers support for victims, litigation, protest and ...
LawTunes Releases "You Don't Wanna Cross Santa" - New CD of ...PR Web (press release), WA - Nov 22, 2005... of humorous original lawyer holiday rock-and-roll ... potential pitfalls of an aggressive litigation strategy against ... and powerful yet affordable music technology. ...
What Becomes an Underground Legend Most?LA City Beat, CA - Nov 16, 2005... who never claimed to have pushed rock cocaine ... alone,” says Ras Kass, who has litigation pending against ... Ras Kass ran through the late-’90s music scene like ...
Gennum nXZEN(TM) Bluetooth(R) Headset Selected by 2005 American ...Business Wire (press release), CA - Nov 17, 2005... the needs of all our consumers, from rock stars to ... the audio input for connection to music players ... it operates, and Gennum's strategy, litigation and investments ...
Ras Kass: The King of the West?HipHopDX - Nov 18, 2005... I think that music, itself, is a time capsule ... Like I said, I’m in litigation – so for Institutionalized it ... When I got out of prison, Rick Rock called me and ...

2005-12-08T12:10:00.000-08:00

Heavy metal killed BeethovenThe Age, Australia - Dec 6, 2005Sophisticated analysis of a fragment of Ludwig Van Beethoven's skull has confirmed the brilliant 19th century composer died of massive lead poisoning ... It’s true, scientists say — heavy metal drove Beethoven to his ... Kansas City StarStudy Concludes Beethoven Died from Lead Poisoning Daily - University of Washington'Beethoven had lead poisoning' News24all 123 related »
Banger trio ready for heavy metal mayhemBoston Standard, UK - Dec 7, 2005BANGER racing returns to King's Lynn's Norfolk Arena on Sunday for one of the biggest out-of... A FAILURE to turn up by a club or ...
Heavy Metal Musicians Remember DIMEBAG DARRELL - Dec. 5, 2005Blabbermouth.net, NY - Dec 5, 2005MTV News spoke with members of some 30 hard rock and metal bands about their memories of late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. ...
'New Wave Of American Heavy Metal' Book Documents Over 600 Bands ...Blabbermouth.net, NY - Nov 30, 2005Garry Sharpe-Young of Rockdetector has just published "New Wave of American Heavy Metal", a 376-page book with over 90 photos, featuring over 600 US and ...
Heavy Metal Jacket With a Luxe LiningNew York Times, United States - Nov 30, 2005... Miami. "All the finishes inside are milky and human and delicate," he added, "all trapped inside this heavy mechanical box.". Houses ...
Rock 'n' roll finally gives Ozzy, heavy metal its dueMinneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - Nov 28, 2005... snubs that drove Black Sabbath lead singer Ozzy Osbourne to dismiss the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vote as "totally irrelevant," the heavy-metal pioneers are ...
Heavy Metal Business Standard, India - Nov 27, 2005Aluminium and other non-ferrous metals are expected to shine going forward, as prices remain firm. Even as the industry has been ...
The perfect team for a heavy metal anniversarySan Jose Mercury News, USA - Nov 30, 2005... Still, this is a great introduction to the world of hard-core metal, and a ... With growled vocals and great heavy guitar and drums, there was no way to tell what ...
1970: The five best rock 'n' roll albums of 2005The Good Five-Cent Cigar (subscription), RI - 13 hours agoI hold a considerable amount of contempt for most heavy metal bands that fall into the "party metal" category. When a metal band ... Music Review: Hypnotize - System of a Down The Good Five-Cent Cigar (subscription)all 2 related »
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QUEENSRŸCHE Guitarist, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Mainman Judging ' ...Blabbermouth.net, NY - Nov 28, 2005If you're in an unsigned heavy metal band and think you've got the right licks to take home the loot, now is your chance to prove it. ...
Salt Lake City's Heavy Metal Shop Struggles To Survive In Internet ...Blabbermouth.net, NY - Nov 23, 2005Eleven years ago, the Heavy Metal Shop's Kevin Kirk ordered 1,000 copies of SLAYER's "Divine Intervention" and sold every last album in a matter of weeks. ...
‘Heavy Metal’ captures the imaginationNew Straits Times, Malaysia - Nov 28, 2005A coveted award and more fans is what you get when a kompang group plays a heavy metal song. Warisan Paluan Lincah, a kompang group ...
Heavy Metal Music, Devil Worship Blamed For Teen's Murder - Nov. ...Blabbermouth.net, NY - Nov 23, 2005Imran Ali of the Trinidad & Tobago Express is reporting that heavy metal music is being blamed for sucking a young man into a world of devil worship and drug ...
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Heavy metalArkansas Times, AR - Nov 23, 2005Housed in a cavernous metal building in Southwest Little Rock, Roling’s Kustoms Royale is one of the lone Arkansas shops that can steer you in the direction ...
The darker side of jingle bell rockBaltic Times, Latvia - 16 hours ago... Anathema, a popular UK heavy metal group, will have teenagers clad in army boots and cargo pants lined up for front-row tickets. ...
Primal, but still evolvingCalendar Live (subscription), CA - 18 hours ago... "The [biblical] stories are great stories and have influenced a lot of heavy metal. They're so metaphoric. "Am Ia gloomy person? ...
The CIA archipelagoOpen Democracy, UK - 44 minutes ago... horror techniques like sleep deprivation (a Bolshevik favourite, as described in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago), deafening heavy-metal music, hypothermia ...
Heavy metalTimes Online, UK - Nov 16, 2005... incurred losses of £1.5 billion? There are others who must regret their love of heavy metal. Bunker and William Hunt, those loveable ...
Heavy metalBusiness Standard, India - Nov 21, 2005Better realisations from sales of aluminium, copper and zinc together with strong volumes have resulted in good top line growth for Sterlite (consolidated) in ...

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Heavy metal bands rock, bang onto local music scene Penn State Digital Collegian, PA - Nov 20, 2005... He said tonight's show will be an "extreme heavy metal show," complete with headbanging and moshing. Sirokman said he hopes Manntis ...
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OZZY Is 'Proud' To Represent Heavy Metal At ROYAL VARIETY ...Blabbermouth.net, NY - Nov 13, 2005Ozzy Osbourne has told the Sunday Mirror that he will be on his best behavior during his performance for the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance later this ...
Heavy melodic metal Monday Kansas City Star, MO - Nov 21, 2005In the late 1960s the term “heavy metal” was used to describe bands influenced by psychedelic rock, blues and classical music that liked to play really loud ...
Sub-genres in the heavy metal worldCanoe.ca, Canada - Nov 13, 2005... This week it was in conjunction with a story on a heavy metal night with a special Remembrance Day theme. Now, as someone who has ...

2005-11-28T02:10:00.000-08:00

Heavy metal bands rock, bang onto local music scene

For The Collegian
Heavy metal is about to take State College by storm.

Hard-rockers Hatebreed and up-and-comers Most Precious Blood, Manntis, Full Blown Chaos, Gizmachi and If Hope Dies will perform tonight at Crowbar, 420 E. College Ave.

Hatebreed is stopping in State College as part of its 10-year anniversary tour. Vocalist Jamey Jasta said the band has changed a lot since its inception, and the music has become faster since then.

"We're an institution because we've stood up to all the adversity and come out on top," Jasta said.

He said band members are enthusiastic to be on tour again since they haven't played certain cities in a long time. Jasta said the band is especially looking forward to playing Crowbar.

If you go
What: Hatebreed, Most Precious Blood, Manntis, Full Blown Chaos, Gizmachi, If Hope Dies
When: Doors open at 6 p.m., first band at 7 p.m.
Date: tonight
Where: Crowbar, 420 E. College Ave.
Details: Tickets are $15 for the all-ages show.

"It was one of the main places that we were like, 'We gotta go back there,' " Jasta said. "It's one of those places where we've always had great shows."

Jasta also manages several newer bands, runs a label imprint, books shows, raises a family and hosts a show called Headbanger's Ball for MTV2.

"I like to stay busy," Jasta said. "I like to give back and help people. It's fulfilling to me when I can help bands and steer them in the right direction, and when the scene does better, so do we."

Most Precious Blood has also enjoyed the tour so far, vocalist Rob Fusco said.

"It's been incredible," he said. "Hatebreed has been drawing the kids in, and we've been scalping them."

Fusco said band members quit their other jobs to dedicate more time to the band.

"Half-heartedly is not the way to do it," he said. "[In a band,] you are either all in or all out."

Fusco said his band likes to be in control of its own ideas.

"There's a greater sense of understanding with the entire process," Fusco said. "It affords us with a greater sense of independence which leads to more confidence in decision making. Our approach is consistent; if we can do it ourselves, we will."

Although Most Precious Blood draws its influence from older bands in the same genre, the band also tries to expand those inspirations to other types of music as well, Fusco said.

"We draw influence from everywhere, which is good because if you only get it from typical bands of the genre, you become stale and predictable," he said.

Vocalist Jake Sirokman of Manntis said the band, like the others, is excited to be touring. Manntis has been through many types of live performance situations.

"We've played for 35,000 people and 35 people," he said. "We played where it was just the bartender and security guards. We'll play in a backyard as long as there's a crowd and everyone has a good time."

The band recently released its first album, Sleep In Your Grave.

"We'll take the reviews for this album and fix them up, like longer songs, more maturity," Sirokman said. "There's always time to sit down and work it out. I'm learning this one day at a time."

As Manntis grows and its sound develops, band members will continue to try to "break out of the shell" of the genre, Sirokman said.

"We're not worrying about looks or trying to set a trend. We're trying to bring back the old-school style and express what we feel in our music," Sirokman said.

He said tonight's show will be an "extreme heavy metal show," complete with headbanging and moshing. Sirokman said he hopes Manntis will leave an impression on the crowd.

"I hope the name sticks in their head," he said. "I hope they say, 'Man, I should see them again next time.' "

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2005-11-27T12:52:00.000-08:00

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Business Standard - India
Aluminium and other non-ferrous metals are expected to shine going forward, as prices remain firm. Even as the industry has been ...

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2005-11-25T15:14:00.000-08:00

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Metal Mania comes to town
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... nation's most vociferous bands crawl out of the woodwork in order to celebrate that loud and earsplitting musical genre commonly referred to as heavy metal. ...

Unconventional wisdom
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
... her husband, Will Smith, thinks of her head banging. Q: What prompted you to start a heavy metal band? How did this take shape? ...

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2005-11-24T14:06:00.000-08:00

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Heavy Metal Music, Devil Worship Blamed For Teen's Murder - Nov. ...
Blabbermouth.net - White Plains,NY,USA
Imran Ali of the Trinidad & Tobago Express is reporting that heavy metal music is being blamed for sucking a young man into a world of devil worship and drug ...

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2005-11-23T15:04:00.000-08:00

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Arkansas Times - Little Rock,AR,USA
Housed in a cavernous metal building in Southwest Little Rock, Roling's Kustoms Royale is one of the lone Arkansas shops that can steer you in the direction ...

Salt Lake City's Heavy Metal Shop Struggles To Survive In Internet ...
Blabbermouth.net - White Plains,NY,USA
Eleven years ago, the Heavy Metal Shop's Kevin Kirk ordered 1,000 copies of SLAYER's "Divine Intervention" and sold every last album in a matter of weeks. ...

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2005-11-21T12:53:00.000-08:00

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Heavy metal
Business Standard - India
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Heavy metal bands rock, bang onto local music scene
Penn State Digital Collegian - University Park,PA,USA
... He said tonight's show will be an "extreme heavy metal show," complete with headbanging and moshing. Sirokman said he hopes Manntis ...

Heavy melodic metal Monday
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
In the late 1960s the term "heavy metal" was used to describe bands influenced by psychedelic rock, blues and classical music that liked to play really loud ...

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2005-11-20T14:32:00.000-08:00

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UCPA forges ahead with heavy metal
Waldo Village Soup - ME,USA
UNITY (Nov 20): Metal artists Christopher Maseychik, Steven Murdock and Robert Peaslee will offer functional and decorative metal pieces for display and sale ...

'Heavy Metal In The Country': German Documentary To Air In ...
Blabbermouth.net - White Plains,NY,USA
A brand-new documentary focusing on Nuclear Blast Records, one of the world's most successful independent heavy metal record companies and its founder, Markus ...

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2005-11-18T14:18:00.000-08:00

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Heavy Metal Rail Jam this weekend
Skipressworld - McMasterville,QC,Canada
... your moves," according to Lake Louise ski resort in Western Canada where riders and skiers are gearing up to do just that at the annual Heavy Metal Rail Jam ...
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra tailors Christmas to families, metal ...
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
... A heavy metal guitarist with long hair and lighting fast fingers is probably not the first musician you envision as a member of a Christmas-themed touring ...

Do horses that are flown internationally for races get jetlag?
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... What is the definition of a heavy metal and are other metals classified as light? ... The term heavy metal means different things to different people. ...

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We are looking for a drummer and a bassist to complete a 5 piece alternative / indie rock band

2005-11-11T00:21:00.000-08:00

We are looking for a drummer and a bassist to complete a 5 piece alternative / indie rock band (2 gats + singer already written songs).

Influences include Interpol, Ryan Adams, Killers, Fanatics.

Band includes 2 former members of high profile signed Sony/BMG band (don't want to name which band on here but will tell you in email).

We are organised and dedicated, with good equipment and experience, and are looking for the same.

We have strong media (magazine and television) and record label connections.

Email me at sam.browne@grooveguide.co.nz and I can send you some demos to show you what we do. Website will be up shortly.

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2005-11-09T14:25:00.000-08:00

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METALLY.NET Announces Launch Of Online Heavy Metal Lyrics Database ...
Blabbermouth.net - White Plains,NY,USA
The Metal Loves You music portal has now added an index of heavy metal and death metal song lyrics to its many other features. The ...

Heavy Metal, CDs Metal Auktionen
Spandauer Journal - Berlin,Germany
EDITION *CD NEU&OVP* MOTÖRHEAD-I Got Mine Live CD Cryhavoc Sweetbriers (CD 1998) Melodic Death Metal Nocturnal Rites - Grand Illusion - CD 2005. ...

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2005-11-08T16:03:00.000-08:00

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HEAVY METAL DRUMS
High Performance Pontiac Magazine - USA
By Ed Hohenberg. Ahh, racing. Where horsepower is good and weight is evil. Or is it? When you think about it, it's the weight on ...

Metal Thrashin' Mad: Confessions of a Recovering Headbanger
PopMatters - Chicago,IL,USA
... I suffered serious hearing damage from the front row at a triumphant Metallica show, between 1983 and 1989, my entire world revolved around heavy metal music. ...

DREAM EVIL: In Pre-Production Mode - Nov. 8, 2005
Blabbermouth.net - White Plains,NY,USA
... Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "See no Evil - Hear no Evil - Speak no Evil", "Glorious", "Speed Demon", "Let's Heavy Metal (Ourselves to Death ...

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2005-11-06T13:20:00.000-08:00

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Kerala doctors deny giving heavy metal medicines to ex-president
Peninsula On-line - Qatar
... were administered for internal use but they were free of heavy metals or ... But Dr Raveendran said it was possible that the metal/steroid-containing preparations ...

Scraps turned into cash
WBBH - Ft. Myers,FL,USA
FORT MYERS-- Behind that piercing scrape sound lies the sound of music, call it heavy metal. Music to many ears, because it can mean fast cash. ...

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2005-11-05T13:37:00.000-08:00

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Tony Iommi Interview
Modern Guitars Magazine - Laguna Beach,CA,USA
... Followers of death rock, goth, and metal have proclaimed Black Sabbath as the duy crowned godfathers of heavy metal. Their music ...

Leaden Chocolates
Science News - USA
... contributor to chocolate's lead contamination--and that such a finding might offer strong economic ammunition for phasing out the heavy metal's addition to ...

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2005-11-04T13:03:00.000-08:00

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Heavy Metal Australopithecus
Bike Magazine - USA
... bands that don't require six or seven paragraphs of introduction. In short, Mountain is a sort of heavy metal Australopithecus. ...

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2005-11-03T12:35:00.000-08:00

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Blunkett bids a heavy-metal farewell, blames media for fracas
viploan.co.uk - Corsham,Wiltshire,UK
LONDON - The erstwhile work and pensions secretary David Blunkett has acknowledged the role played by the media in the unsavory fracas that ultimately led to ...

Polluted community stars in Metal
Gateway.ualberta.ca - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... the days of Captain Planet to remember a time when pollution seemed like a personal issue, but with the environmental documentary Heavy Metal, many Canadians ...

From punk to metal, goth combines fashion and music
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
... the movement that Goth would change perhaps more than any other rock 'n' roll subgenre, with the emphasis on punk-rock ebbing and flowing into heavy metal. ...

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2005-11-02T14:12:00.000-08:00

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Mixing up the metal
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
By Alan K. Stout. The members of the band Beyond Fallen see heavy metal as an amalgamation. ... "When people say 'heavy metal,' you could be anywhere. ...

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2005-10-28T14:35:00.000-07:00

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Chinese team says GM plants can clean up heavy metals
SciDev.net - UK
As a cheap and effective way of eliminating heavy metal pollution from the environment, the GM plants carry substantial health and economic benefits, says ...

RAM: New Song Available For Download - Oct. 28, 2005
Blabbermouth.net - White Plains,NY,USA
RAM, the traditional Gothenburg, Sweden-based heavy metal band featuring Leif Larsson (ex-FROZEN EYES, NME WITHIN) and Morgan Pettersson (ex-B-THONG), have ...

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2005-10-27T16:22:00.000-07:00

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Hair metal back from the dead for Black and White Ball
Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA
Heavy metal, like punk rock, will never die. At least, that's what the purists will tell you. But heavy metal and punk have both ...

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2005-10-26T16:19:00.000-07:00

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Herbal drugs to pass heavy-metal test
Times of India - India
NEW DELHI: Testing of all herbal medicines -- ayurveda, unani and siddha -- for heavy metals like arsenic, lead and cadmium will soon be compulsory. ...

‘Medicines for export should specify heavy metal content'
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 25: Following reports of heavy metal contamination in ayurvedic medicines, the government has issued a notification to test products for ...

The Survivor
Cleveland Scene Weekly - Cleveland,OH,USA
... Lakewood nightspot. On any given week, he earns gas money by turning his talents to disco, heavy metal, oldies, and '80s hits. He works ...

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2005-10-25T13:43:00.000-07:00

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Saw II: Bousman and Whannell
Comingsoon.net - USA
... It's almost like heavy metal in that respect. It's like once you start dissecting it, you realize that there's 80 subgenres. There's ...

Children Of Bodom
Loudside.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... and vocals), Jaska Raatikainen (drums), Henkka Seppälä (bass) and Alexander Kuoppala (guitars) soon found elements of classic heavy metal creeping into their ...

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HP Launches Largest-ever Pixel Advertising Campaign

2005-10-25T01:09:00.000-07:00

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 9, 2005

HP today launched its most ambitious pixel advertising campaign to date targeting enterprise customers under the banner of "change +hp."

The latest extension to the company's award-winning brand campaign tackles the thorny subject of change by showcasing HP customers who use technology to master change.

The 16-page insert appearing in today's Wall Street Journal and New York Times includes HP customers Kimberly-Clark, Advance Transformer, United States Postal Service and the Screen Actors Guild. Each company is showcased in a two-page spread that works like a mini-case study detailing how HP products, solutions and services helped them deal with change.

"The adage 'the only constant is change' couldn't be more relevant than in today's business world," said Nora Denzel, senior vice president at HP, who leads the company's Adaptive Enterprise initiative. "At HP, we know what it means to use technology to manage large-scale change. We speak from experience on the subject of what it takes to become an adaptive enterprise."

"We asked hundreds of CIOs and IT executives what keeps them awake at night. The universal response was 'change,'" said Allison Johnson, senior vice president, Global Brand and Communications, HP. "With this campaign, we hope to help companies see the benefits of embracing change."

The television, online and outdoor components of the campaign are slated to debut in the United States in March and 17 additional countries in April. The launch of the campaign coincides with today's announcements of HP's latest offerings designed to deliver the benefits of standardized IT architectures, solutions and processes to its customers.

HP worked with San Francisco-based advertising agency 3Gmedia to develop the pixel advertising campaign.

Pixel Advertising – The Next Wave of Online Advertising

2005-10-25T00:59:00.000-07:00

With the days of static Web banner ads coming to an end, industry experts share their vision for the future of pixel advertising on the Net.
When the World Wide Web was first woven, there were no banners or buttons -- the Web site was the promotional tool. In late 1994,
however, Wired Digital, formerly know as HotWired, would take a controversial step in online marketing, inventing and placing the first
pixel ad on their Web site and bringing Internet advertising to a whole, new level. HotWired became the first site to accept and model
its business around advertising and sponsorship, and Yahoo! and Netscape followed suit until pixel ads were everywhere.

Three years ago, the average response rate on a pixel ad was more than 2 percent. But as Netizens begin demanding more of the promise
of the Internet (read: dynamic multimedia), static pixel ads are not pulling the weight they once did. Today, click-through rates on pixel ads are a scant .05 percent, and they continue to trend downward, according to industry experts.

Still, don't expect Web advertisers to banish banners from the mix entirely -- the banner model is probably the one metric that everyone agrees upon. However, experts do stress that banners must evolve beyond their static beginnings, and they point out that other online marketing methods, like affiliate programs, opt-in e-mail and traditional promotions, are showing the potential for even greater response rates than banner ads ever did.

"While banners are not going away, they are really just part of the overall package," says Josh Stylman, president and co-founder of Rotomedia, a New York-based online advertising firm. "I think both advertisers and publishers have to work harder to create things that are a little more ou-of-the-box. Banners are not the be-all, end-all."

Evan Neufeld, director of online advertising strategies for Jupiter Communications, a leading new media research firm, agrees with Stylman's assessment of the current state of the industry. "The bar is going to raise on several levels, from things like audience measurement to advertisers and publishers needing to deploy more of what we generically refer to as 'impactful creative,'" explains Neufeld.

To be sure, creativity is key to any successful campaign, online or off. But all things that work in the terrestrial world do not cross over into the wide world of the Web. Before embarking on the challenging journey of Internet advertising, experts suggest getting a grasp on the assortment of online marketing options.

Choosing Your Poison

"Never before have advertisers been able to put up a proposition, or a call to action, or an pixel ad, and literally get results," says Steven Krane, CEO of Gamesville.com, a database-marketing firm disguised as a game show site. "The value of the Web is the ability to get the right message to the right person at the right time." (Click here for a feature-length profile on Gamesville.com.)

Choosing an advertising strategy for the Web can be a daunting task for many entrepreneurs who are forced to simultaneously consider their short-term and long-term goals, due to outside pressure from investors and customers. For the short-term, advertisers need to drive traffic and sales, but building customer relationships over the long haul is vital to the success of a brand.

This is where objectives come into play. The primary objective for most online marketers today is attracting "eyeballs," or viewers. Disney's recently launched Go Network, for example, is trying to gain market share by targeting the masses with a wide array of content, commerce and communities. If this is your goal, and you have the budget, experts say your money is well spent on television campaigns.

On the other hand, just as many Internet marketers are aiming at specific target audiences and accomplishing their goals with less capital. Online toy stores, like BrainPlay.com and eToys, often advertise on sites frequented by busy working parents. "There is no other medium that can actually put you in touch with consumers the way the Internet can," insists Krane.

It should be noted, however, that targeting on the Web is only one option, and it typically includes a price hike. "If the increase in price for targeted ads does not yield value, then targeting may not be worth the expense," says Guy Hill, director of marketing for ValueClick, a pay-for-results advertising network. "Careful planners will test both targeted and untargeted opportunities to determine the right fit for a given product."

And Neufeld is quick to remind online marketers about the media mix, the theory that dictates spending money in different mediums to drive traffic from different audiences.

"Pixel Advertising on the Internet is an effective way to build your brand or drive transactions of your services online and off, and TV is a great way to drive people to an Internet site," he says, "but it's all about balance." Neufeld cautions that spending 50 or 60 percent of your ad budget on one TV spot isn't necessarily the best way to allocate funds. "You need to be playing in multiple mediums in order to drive a successful Internet business," he advises.

Pixel Advertising Technology Attracts More Eyeballs

Speaking of multiple mediums, there is a lot of buzz about this thing called rich media. What's rich media, you ask? It implies two things, really. On one level, it's a set of new technologies that will help revive an exhausted, static banner-ad model. But on a more philosophical and strategic level, it's about innovation.

Pixel Advertising combines sight, sound, motion and functional utility to an advertising unit, allowing the viewer to actually interact with the marketing vehicle. Today, Pixel Advertising Technology is generally used in banners and interstitial units, like e-mercials and pop-up ads. According to Neufeld, there are two schools of interactivity -- one produces brand awareness, and the other drives transactions. The direction Pixel Advertising is going in is facilitating banners that allow more transactive and informational capability, Neufeld explains. "That includes banners that, for example, allow you to buy a product within the banner, or a banner that will allow you to get product information about a particular service or good."

Pixel Advertising also encourages viewers to interact with the brand by offering a more dynamic marketing message than can be displayed in a traditional banner ad.

Pixel Advertising will take the pressure off trying to drive people to where the message is, and we can go back to bringing the message to where the people are," says Jarvis Coffin, CEO and co-founder of BURST! Media, a Massachusetts-based advertising management and networking firm. He says the contortions advertisers undergo in efforts to lure people from one site to another is somewhat abusive of the viewers' time and interest. "More importantly," adds Coffin, "it leaves unattended and uncultivated the relationships you could be having with the 99.5 percent of the people who don't click through, but may be otherwise interested in what you are trying to sell."

Early results from Pixel Advertising campaigns speak for themselves. According to Jupiter, rich-media ad units get an average click-through rate of 8 percent -- or about 16 times better than static banner or animated gif ads.

"With a great strategy, the right message, and creative that drives it home, marketers will get at least better-than-average results from rich-media campaigns," says Suzanne Brisendine, director of rich interactive marketing programs for Intel's Content Group. Brisendine evangelizes the benefits and uses of rich multimedia to marketers and advertisers, but she openly admits the challenges involved with this new technology.

Furthermore, Neufeld says, creative agencies are still learning how to deploy Pixel Advertising effectively.

And then there's the cost: Pixel Advertising campaigns are less expensive to create and launch than traditional marketing methods.

"From that standpoint, you should probably plan on buying 250,000 to 500,000 impressions each month just to have a legitimate reach," says Coffin. "This will run about $3,000 to $5,000 per month."

Affiliate Programs Charge by Results

Amazon.com pioneered affiliate programs, which emphasize the Golden Rule of retail success: location, location, location. Through these partnership networks, e-tailers can merchandise their products and services on targeted sites all over the Web -- with little or no associated overhead.

However, affiliate programs are priced a little differently than rich-media campaigns, which are usually run on a CPM, or cost-per-thousand, impression model. Affiliate programs work on a pay-for-performance basis. This is attractive to many Web merchants who are used to acquiring customers at a loss, assuming that they will be able to up-sell the customer later.

"Affiliate programs give merchants the opportunity to acquire customers at a profit," says Brad Aronson, president of Philadelphia-based i-frontier, an Internet advertising agency, and co-author of "Advertising on the Internet." "And it's great if you've got a niche where you are selling something, and there are a lot of Web sites that fill that niche because those sites may not have a lot of advertising and may be very receptive to doing so."

Overall, this is a low-risk way to enter the world of Web advertising. Still, it is absolutely critical to manage an affiliate program responsibly, or hire an agency to do so. The logistics of maintaining an affiliate program can be quite expensive, but agencies like Be Free and LinkShare coordinate affiliate programs for Web merchants on a cost-per-response basis. Advertisers can expect to pay up to $.17 per click to the publisher, in addition to sharing a small percentage of affiliate-generated revenues with the agency.

"If an affiliate network doesn't work for a merchant, they incur no cost, whereas if it does work, the cost is proportional to how well it works," says Samuel Gerace, executive vice president of technology for Be Free.

Affiliate programs are working quite well, according to industry experts. And technology now allows for more sophisticated programs that include photos of featured products from the advertiser's inventory, as well as links to specific areas on the merchant's site. These advancements produce about 10 times the sell-through rates produced by banner ads, says Gerace, because the affiliate links are displayed in context. This is referred to as "contextual targeting."

"The fact that products are displayed in context means you are catching a viewer at exactly the moment they might be interested in buying, and they've already demonstrated, by wanting to view the content of the site, interest in that particular area," Gerace explains.

Gerace also stresses the importance of branding, insisting that an affiliate network must be a merchant-branded experience in order to be truly effective. This brings us to the disadvantage of affiliate networks: With so many sites selling for the merchant, there is some loss of control over the brand.

"Affiliates are going to do whatever it takes to sell," Aronson explains. "It's usually not awful, but on occasion, you'll see your brand portrayed in a way that makes you a little uncomfortable."

Experts say the 80/20 Rule applies to affiliates -- that is, 20 percent of the affiliate sites in your network will usually generate 80 percent of the revenues. This assessment is leading online marketers to consider additional options in order to achieve greater balance in their promotional efforts.

Database Marketing Individualizes Sales Efforts

Direct marketing via e-mail is gaining ground with online advertisers looking to achieve true one-to-one marketing. Also called opt-in e-mail marketing, direct marketing via e-mail is yielding high sales-conversion rates at a relatively low cost of acquisition.

Opt-in e-mail should not be confused with unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam. Opt-in e-mail is permission-based, as in the case of sites like XOOM.com, E-greetings and Gamesville.com, where registered users are invited to receive announcements on specific topics of interest. This makes direct marketing via e-mail even more effective than direct marketing in the postal world, which is based primarily on ZIP Codes. Direct marketing on the Web allows merchants to track individual customers instead of anonymous residents.

Jupiter predicts that this method of online marketing will be big and has numbers to back it up. According to Neufeld, the average cost to send an e-mail message ranges from $.01 to $.25 vs. $1 to $2 to sent a direct-mail piece in terrestrial spaces. What's more, the average response rate for opt-in e-mail can be anywhere from 15 to 30 percent, as opposed to 1 to 2 percent with traditional direct mail.

"The effectiveness is absolutely stellar in terms of click rates -- double digits are not uncommon," says Ken Wruk, president and founder of WebPromote, a leading Illinois-based Internet marketing agency. "But beyond the click rate, the conversion rate and ROI that are achievable are also many times greater than banner advertising."

The channel, though obviously effective, does have its attending miseries. A low barrier to entry means that many people will use and abuse the direct e-mail channel. "By the middle of this year, the sheer number of messages consumers [receive] will actually eclipse the amount of mail you get in your mailbox traditionally," says Neufeld. "There will be a lot more people using e-mail, and that will make it harder for any particular marketer to rise above what's going to be an increasingly cluttered mailbox for consumers."

As well, Wruk says there is a severe shortage of subscribers who have raised their hands to request e-mail announcements. And then there's the challenge of overcoming privacy concerns.

"Opt-in e-mail allows the consumer to jump in or out of a program at his own free will," explains Krane. "Part of the privacy issue is about permission as much as it is about privacy."

Database marketers do not sell e-mail addresses to merchants as direct-marketing firms sell street addresses in the physical world. Instead, a merchant gives a targeted message to the marketer, and the marketer sends it to individuals who meet the merchant's requirements.

All in all, Neufeld says opt-in e-mail marketing will continue to be a very effective channel for Web merchants.

Traditional Promotions Round Out the Media Mix

For advertisers who don't just want to preach to the converted, traditional advertising and promotions can round out the marketing mix nicely. Experts agree that traditional advertising drives traffic to a site, and many of the larger Web-based players, like Amazon.com, E*TRADE and Snap.com are now extending their marketing efforts offline.

"The idea of sales promotion and some of the more traditional tactics in promotion allow you to have a brand experience with a specific call to action," says Di-Ann Eisnor, CEO of Eisnor Interactive, which assists online companies, such as TheStreet.com and N2K Inc., with establishing offline branding strategies.

However, Aronson recommends that smaller Internet-based companies start out advertising online before experimenting with traditional promotions, due to the higher costs involved. No doubt, traditional advertising is much more expensive than online marketing with banner ads, affiliate programs and opt-in e-mail. Pilot programs in local markets can cost as much as $50,000, and national media buys can exceed $5 million.

At these premiums, Eisnor say Web merchants who choose traditional advertising must leverage their media dollars by getting free public relations impressions and pursuing partnership opportunities. "Success with traditional advertising depends on using all the leverage you can muster from the PR side and the word-of-mouth side to get more bang for your traditional media dollar," she suggests.

New Challenges for a New Medium

Armed with the information to conquer the world of online advertising beyond the banner, Web merchants must prepare to spend a lot of time and effort on their campaigns, from testing the Web site to coordinating creative development, testing the ads, and optimizing placement. Most online-marketing mistakes stem from inexperience, leading experts to suggest dedicating human resources for the project or hiring an agency to do it for you.

Either way, Web merchants must be sure their sites are functioning properly, both on the front end and the back end. In other words, if you are marketing shoes, you better have a Web site that can handle selling and delivering those shoes. Other than that, says Neufeld, you cross your fingers and hope you know what you are doing.

"In traditional advertising, we have 40 years of data to make intelligent decisions," he explains. "The Internet is kind of a Wild West show, and individual companies need to act intelligently."

Neufeld says with the number of users on the Internet increasing exponentially every year, it is really important to be ubiquitous. To a certain extent, it's marketing 101 -- do smart things, figure out where your audience is, and figure out what your cost of acquisition vs. ownership is. On the other hand, says Neufeld, it's a matter of not necessarily sticking to the old rules. You need to be very strategic and have a good sense of your brand and your value proposition when you are trying to market in any medium.

"The brand is what makes the company. It's all about brand, and what the brand stands for, and how you leverage brand assets -- and that's what a lot of Internet companies need to figure out," says Neufeld.

Measuring Results and Click-Through Caveats

Brand is vital in Web marketing, giving experts all the more reason to caution against measuring results on click-through alone.

"What if all the people who click through get to your home page and leave? It's actually a bad branding experience because they thought they'd get something from the ad and then got to your home page and realized they weren't going to get it," explains Aronson. He suggests that an effective brand hit has occurred when a user clicks through, then browses the merchant's site, looking at two or three pages before leaving. "Based on that, you can come up with the dollar value and measure, in dollars, how successful the campaign was," he explains.

Aronson hit the nail on the head. What marketers want most from an advertising campaign, online or off, comes down to three letters: R-O-I.

"At the end of the day, it's going to be revealed that the Internet is not the Holy Grail of media accountability," says Coffin. "Advertising is never going to entirely boil down to a science. In many ways, the Internet space is more accountable than traditional media today, but I think it's almost absurd to think we can drive to a point where it's entirely based on results, in terms of ROI on the media dollar."

This leaves the whole pricing structure of online advertising up for negotiation. "As long as buyers know that a site wants that buyer's dollars, and that site has unsold space, there will be room for price reductions and added value on paying orders," says Hill.

Indeed, there is a lot of surplus inventory on the Internet these days. Depending on what estimates you listen to, as much as 75 to 80 percent of ad space on the Internet goes unsold each month. A buyer needs to know what's reasonable, says Hill, but in most cases, if a site won't work with you on price, one of their competitors will.

Internet Advertising Beyond the 20th Century

Jupiter reports advertising projections that put the market at about $7.7 billion by 2002. But Neufeld says those numbers could change. The next 18 months are going to be a critical time for the Internet as an advertising medium, he says, and it's really going to impact whether those numbers go up, down, or stay the same.

"The problem the Internet suffers as a marketing vehicle is the disconnect between the hype of what the Internet was supposed to deliver and the current state of affairs as it relates to rich media and targeting and a whole host of things," says Neufeld. He doesn't view the problems as terminal, but suggests they must be addressed before we can move forward.

"One final word of caution," jokes Krane, "call me next month, and let's figure this out all over again."

If you're anything like me, you don't pay much attention to pixel ads. To those of us who spend a lot of time online, they become like white noise. To combat them, our online arsenals expand to include browsers and toolbars that offer pop-up blockers and the like.

Whether you love them, hate them, or just ignore them, online ads are still a vast source of revenue in the online world. If you look at them from a marketer's perspective (or at least as a Website owner who wants to earn extra revenue), online ads are a potentially lucrative option. For many companies, online advertising is becoming more profitable. A study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers calculated that advertising revenue in the United States increased by $1.3 billion dollars to an astounding $7.3 billion in 2003. You can read the entire study in this PDF [1] at the IAB Website.

With both large corporations and mom-and-pop stores now using online ads, it's tough to compete. In this article, we'll take a look at the seven most prevalent design trends in online advertising.

Trend #1: Curves and Organic Shapes

In writing this article, I looked at, analyzed and considered several hundred online ads. In nearly three-quarters (and possibly even more) of those ads, some form of curves or other organic shapes featured. Big name companies such as Weight Watchers use organic shapes -- arcs, circles, and rounded edges, for example -- to appeal to target audiences. The recent proliferation of these particular shapes is a sharp contrast to the hard-edged, square styles favored previously. In an effort to appear more comforting, approachable and appealing to their target audiences, companies have used the current economy to shed their "hard" styles in favor of these "softer" images.

Several well-known companies are shown in greater detail below:

Weight Watchers - This ad uses a combination of techniques discussed in this article. It uses Trend #1: Curves in its layout, along with a combination of two increasingly popular colors (see Trend #2: Colors). It also makes use of a stock photo that shows a "happy customer" (see Trend #3: Imagery).

OfficeMax - The office supply mega-store employs Trend #1 in the curves in its banner ad. It avoids the usage of the trendy colors, in favor of its corporate ID colors. Also, OfficeMax abandons the trend of sans-serif fonts (Trend #7: Fonts and Their Usage) in favor of its corporate font.

ReliaQuote - This online insurance company whose ads appear all over the Web employs two of the seven trends discussed in this article. It successfully employs Trend #1, using curves to overlay a stock photo (Trend #3: Imagery) of a face. ReliaQuote also uses a sans-serif font (Trend #7: Fonts & Their Usage).

It should be noted that this trend may not to be limited to online ads, as it appears in Website layouts and print design as well.

For the Adobe Photoshop users in the crowd, I've created a set of four curve brushes, to aid you in your development of banner ads. To install these into your version of Photoshop, make sure you have Photoshop closed, and navigate to your Adobe Photoshop install folder (typically, C:/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop x.x). Open the Presets folder, then the Brushes folder. Copy the .abr file from this .zip [2] and, next time you open Photoshop, the brushes will be loaded.

Trend #2: Colors

Anyone who has spent any time online in the past few years will have noticed the vast usage (and in some cases, success) of the color combination of orange and blue. Recently, these colors have come to be associated with tech and computer firms. And in online ads, these colors seem to be just as popular as their layout-based counterparts. Through my research, several shades of blue and orange showed up, but they maintained the combination, usually with only the addition of neutrals (black and white).

The example image shows some of the more prominent colors I saw in my research for this article, along with their hex codes and RGB values.

#ED7F09; (237, 127, 9)

#FF6600; (225, 102, 0)

#2188E0; (33, 136, 224)

#0066CC; (0, 102, 204)

#23497C; (35, 73, 124)

All of these colors work nicely with neutrals (black, white and shades of gray). For help with color schemes, two of my favorite tools are:

I've created an Adobe Photoshop color palette of these colors to quicken the banner development process. To install the palette into your version of Photoshop, make sure you have Photoshop closed, and navigate to your Adobe Photoshop install folder (typically, C:/Program Files/Adobe/Photoshop x.x) Open the Presets folder, then the Color Swatches folder. Copy the .aco file from this .zip [5] and, next time you open Photoshop, the color palette will be loaded.

Trend #3: Imagery

Many popular ads have moved from the extensive-copy-and-image format to heavy usage of stock photography that shows their "customers." An ad may show happy children playing, a satisfied mother, or a productive looking office -- any combination of upbeat images that showcases the intended customer reaction to their product.

In this example image, T-Mobile shows customers that instead of spending too much time inside (in corporate cubicle hell), that they should be doing things that they truly enjoy.

There are many royalty-free stock photography sites out there. Two of the most popular -- also my favorites -- are:

Corbis Images [6]
Getty Images [7]

Also, see SitePoint's own extensive list of imagery sites [8].

For those who need to create ads on a limited budget, my personal favorite is Stock.xchng [9], which offers a great selection of free stock photography (much of it rivaling, and in some cases surpassing, the royalty-free image sites). This Free Stock Photography thread in the SitePoint Forums [10] is also worth a look. If you have the time, it's definitely worth poring through these lists; I've gained many new resources from there, and other forum threads.

Trend #4: Deals and Copy

Online ad copy is currently focused on a tradition that marketers have followed for years.
The copy in most ads I ripped apart focused on these "Big Three" principals:

Get something for free

Save money

Make life easier

Big computer companies, including Dell and its competitors, offer traditional seasonal sales, including back-to-school events, and advertise their substantial savings in banner ads. Other companies, including many popular newspapers, offer discounts to readers who switch from traditional paper-based formats to their online counterparts.

Some of the most effective online ads use simple, direct copy to entice visitors to visit the vendor's Website (the challenge), then hit the visitor with the complete sales pitch once they get there. For a good article on writing great Web copy, check out The Web Developer's Copywriting Guide [11] by Matthew Gowdy.

Trend #5: Interactivity

Ever since animated GIFs gained support in mainstream browsers, people have made "interactive" banner ads. These range from the Punch-the-Monkey ads to more complex formats that feature simulated form fields. The main drive of animated ads is to gain clickthroughs.

With the invention and mainstream acceptance of Macromedia Flash [12], a new class of ads popped up. Hewlett-Packard was one of the first companies to jump on the bandwagon, enticing customers to check out its music software via an ad that featured a piano layout that allowed you to create your own tunes. The company continues this tradition today with audio-driven ads that explain and teach potential customers about HP's fotoimaging technology, and basically function as mini-presentations.

Along the same lines, more and more companies have thrown their hats into the ring with Flash overlay ads. These ads (usually of gargantuan file size) overlay the text of Web pages and entice customers to view much more than can typically fit into a banner ad. Currently, these behemoth ads are only available in Internet Explorer, but other browsers are now building in support for these overlays. However, even though many users find them annoying at best (confusing at worst), these overlay ads are reported to achieve clickthough rates up to a 50 times better than traditional banner ads.

If you decide the risk of offending your customers is worth the reward of the high clickthrough rate, check out this Macromedia article about creating transparent Flash movies [13].

Trend #6: Sizes And Layouts

Still the most common and most-used ad size, the banner ad is measured at 468x60 pixels. This ad size has become so popular that it's a preset in recent versions of Adobe Photoshop. Also popular are "skyscraper" banners, which weigh in at 120x600 pixels. Lots of ads don't fit a pre-defined size, such as all the Flash pop-over ads which have become more popular in recent months.

Many banner and skyscrapers ads follow a "thirds" formula. Two-thirds of the ad contains a picture and the main advertising points; the remaining third is devoted to minimal copy and clickable buttons.

In the examples provided here, both Carnation and Microsoft use similar layouts for vastly different products and markets.

Other sizes and shapes gaining (and in some cases, losing) popularity include:

Square ads (most often seen in technology Websites)
Pop-ups (most certainly losing steam since most Web browsers and toolbars come equipped with a pop-up blocker)
Pop-unders (not quite as bad as pop-ups, but still losing ground due to pop-up blockers)
Interstitials (a nearly full-page ad that loads between the page you clicked and the one you want to see; one site I found that used them extensively was iVillage [14]
Overlay ads (gaining popularity due to the decline in pop-up ads; we talked about these in #5: Interactivity)

Trend #7: Fonts And Their Usage

It seems as if the growing shift from serif fonts to sans-serif fonts online is now projecting itself into online advertising. Nearly all the ads I examined used sans-serif fonts, often in addition to the company's "signature" font.

A great font resource, which I've seen mentioned several times in the SitePoint Forums [15], is WhatTheFont [16]. By simply uploading a simple JPEG [17], GIF [18], TIFF or BMP image, you can identify which font is used in a particular ad. This is particularly handy for reviving older ads for which you've lost the original files.

If you truly feel like browsing for a new font, 1001 Free Fonts [19] offers a vast selection of fonts. The only downside of this site is that the fonts are categorized by font name, and not by style.

If you're new to font selection, and are used to using any old thing that happens to be in your font list, here's a quick overview. Serif fonts, pictured in the upper-half of the example above, have "tails" that are used as decorative touches to the letter. Times New Roman and Garamond are two common examples of serif fonts. Sans-serif fonts, pictured in the lower half of the example above, are absent of the "tails," and frequently have much cleaner lines. Verdana and Arial are examples of common sans-serif fonts.

What NOT to Do

If you're tired of reading the same standard marketing fare and technical how-tos, and are looking for a refreshing perspective on online advertising, check out BrandSuicide [20]. This blog is subtitled "Ads that Suck" and features some of the most annoying, confusing and poorly put-together ads online. Akin to Vincent Flanders' book Web Pages That Suck, this site is a how-not-to guide to online advertising.

For a more in-depth look at the acceptance by Web users of various online ad formats, Dynamic Logic published a recent study on Consumer Perception (March 2004) [21]. To summarize the findings, this study shows that the online ad format preferred by most consumers was the banner ad; the one they prefer least was the pop-up ad.

Google Alert - Heavy Metal

2005-10-24T13:15:00.000-07:00

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Google Alert - Heavy Metal

2005-10-22T14:46:00.000-07:00

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Pamela Vitale Murder: Satanic or Ritualistic Crime and Murder?
National Ledger - Apache Junction,AZ,USA
... The world of the Satanic cultist is filled with ritualistic violence, perverse sexual activity and abuse, Heavy Metal music and the use of illegal drugs such ...

Judas Priest serves metalhead feast
Calgary Herald - Alberta, Canada
... This is surprising, considering the Coop was just here a year ago, while the heavy metal pioneers, reunited with classic vocalist Rob Halford, haven't hit ...
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The Pamela Vitale Murder: Satanic or Ritualistic Crime and Murder
NewsByUs - USA
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2005-10-21T15:12:00.000-07:00

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Police report details scene of heavy-metal guitarist's murder
Houston Chronicle - United States
At the heavy metal concert, 25-year-old Nathan Gale killed four people, including Abbott, before a Columbus policeman shot and killed Gale. ...

High Priest
Edmonton Sun - Canada
... returned. Heavy Metal isn't dead after all. Of ... journalism. While rock's flourished, heavy metal's heydays were inarguably the '80s. And ...
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2005-10-20T12:53:00.000-07:00

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Heavy metal band sorry for kidnap prank
The Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Members of a South Australian heavy metal band have apologised for pulling an abduction prank in Brisbane's city centre. Members ...
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Church choir granny turns heavy metal rocker
Ekklesia - UK
... year-old Olga Sarantos, after the feisty grandmother from Oak Park, Illinois, decided instead to throw her musical lot in with an ear-burning heavy metal band. ...
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Journal editor comes into contact with Anthrax (the band)
Edmonton Journal - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... problem. Thanks, dude," as he gave me the heavy metal salute. (He ... lettering. That's heavy metal for you -- gestures, angst and costumes. Anthrax ...
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Anthrax still infectious after 20 years
Gateway.ualberta.ca - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
But for heavy metal veterans Anthrax, a tour featuring all the original band members for the first time in years is anything but pathetic. ...

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The Weed Files announces its free Artist Area

2005-10-20T06:54:00.000-07:00

Sainte-Foy, Québec, October 18, 2005 – With the launch of its Artist Area featuring unlimited uploads and free lifetime hosting, The Weed Files provides virtually costless do-it-yourself online music distribution.

Artists and labels are invited to sign up for a free account at artists.weed-files.com where they'll be able to create artist pages, upload Weed files and promotional material such as photos and banners, and select featured and podsafe files.

Downloadable at no cost, Weed files can be played 3 times for free and shared legally. Once bought, the files can be played at will, burned to CD, and transferred to a portable player. The artists get 50% on every sale of their files, and don't need to be signed to a label or even have a full album produced to get started. The listeners who redistribute their files are rewarded with up to 20% of the sales price.

"For music fans, Weed files are a great way to actively support the artists they like. For the artists, it's an opportunity to get the most of already existing networks of contacts and the seemingly unlimited connectivity of the Internet," said Christopher Stewart, owner of The Weed Files. "For podcasters, music bloggers, and P2P users, Weed files have the potential to turn hobbies into economically profitable activities. It really is a win-win solution for everybody involved."

To date, close to 90,000 titles have been "Weedified" including music from such diverse artists as Tom Waits, Count Basie, The Presidents of The United States of America, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Abby Travis, Kelly Clarkson, and countless others.

About The Weed Files

Sainte-Foy-based independent content provider and distributor The Weed Files devotes its activities to the thriving of the Weed community.

About Weed

Weed is a service of Shared Media Licensing, Inc., a group of musicians and software developers based in Seattle, Washington. Weed encourages file-sharing and makes payments to musicians while at the same time rewarding file-traders who respect artists' rights.

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The Weed Files - Christopher Stewart
http://www.weed-files.com
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Weed – John Leighton Beezer
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2005-10-20T06:41:00.000-07:00

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Google Alert - Heavy Metal

2005-10-19T13:30:00.000-07:00

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Headbangers flock to Europe's only heavy-metal karaoke
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
... rendition of Back in Black. "Finnish people love heavy metal almost as much as in Eastern Europe and Germany, where it's huge.". ...

RECAP OF CHRIS JERICHO'S XM SATELLITE RADIO SHOW
Pro Wrestling Insider - Marmora,NJ,USA
... Y2J also says in his opinion, that song's definitely one of the first heavy metal songs of all time and says the Beatles in a lot of ways, one of the first ...

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2005-10-18T12:35:00.000-07:00

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Heavy metal mama
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... blows that fate tends to deliver. Characteristically, Matthew compares the album to Slayer's heavy metal classic, Reign in Blood. ...

David Yellen, Photographer
Gothamist - NY,USA
Whether his subject be barely clad Heavy Metal Groupies, bloody Wrestlers, flaming haired psychos, 50 Cent, or Barbara Walters, photographer David Yellen (www ...

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2005-10-18T00:15:00.000-07:00

If you are one of the few who has never been presented with evidence that healing prayer request plans to evoke a misdirected response to genuine unresolved grievances, then be glad that the task to educate yourself has just become easy. With this letter, I compile all of the necessary evidence into one easy-to-read document. But before I continue, allow me to explain that there are two related questions in this matter. The first is to what extent it has tried to topple society. The other is whether or not healing prayer request's cheerleaders, who are legion, believe that we should derive moral guidance from healing prayer request's glitzy, multi-culti, hip-hop, consumption-oriented canards. This is precisely the non-equation that healing prayer request is trying to patch together. What it's missing, as usual, is that it may seem difficult at first to open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. It is. But I strive to be consistent in my arguments. I can't say that I'm 100% true to this but healing prayer request's frequent vacillating leads me to believe that it owns drawers and boxes full of legal documents, which it is convinced prove its position. Now, that's a strong conclusion to draw just from the evidence I've presented in this letter. So let me corroborate it by saying that I have a problem with healing prayer request's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, it doesn't need to prove its claim that human life is expendable; it merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, when I hear it say that going through the motions of working is the same as working, I have to wonder about it. Is it absolutely quislingism-oriented? Is it simply being slovenly? Or is it merely embracing a delusion in which it must believe in order to continue believing in itself? I'll tell you what I think the answer is. I can't prove it, but if I'm correct, events soon will prove me right. I think that healing prayer request spouts the same bile in everything it writes, making only slight modifications to suit the issue at hand. The issue it's excited about this week is recidivism, which says to me that I should note that healing prayer request's reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth, but only disgusting answers, abusive resolutions to conflicts. Although theoretical differences can be drawn between healing prayer request's harebrained hastily mounted campaigns and overweening, aberrant Stalinism, these are distinctions without a difference. For the nonce, healing prayer request is content to encourage and exacerbate passivity in some people who might otherwise be active and responsible citizens. But before the year is over, it will gum up what were once great ideas. I happen to believe that healing prayer request's a pretty good liar most of the time. However, it tells so many lies, it's bound to trip itself up someday.

I've repeatedly pointed out to healing prayer request that its janissaries encourage individuals to disregard other people, to become fully self-absorbed, as though it were a disgrace to keep the faith. That apparently didn't register with it, though. Oh, well; I guess the justification healing prayer request gave for seeking to impact public policy for years to come was one of the most sordid justifications I've ever heard. It was so sordid, in fact, that I will not repeat it here. Even without hearing the details you can still see my point quite clearly: The basal lie that underlies all of healing prayer request's tendentious allegations is that it can promote hedonism's traits as normative values to be embraced and get away with it. Translation: Governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. I doubt you need any help from me to identify the supreme idiocy of those views, but you should nevertheless be aware that the final product of healing prayer request's initiatives will be a dysfunctional society, wherein every natural self-defense mechanism has been short-circuited in some empty-headed effort to gain short-term financial benefits. But it goes further than that; healing prayer request is not a responsible citizen. Responsible citizens free people from the fetters of obscurantism's poisonous embrace. Responsible citizens honestly do not do everything possible to keep exploitative saboteurs perverted and deranged. People tell me that we must put our religious and factional differences aside if we are ever to discuss the programmatic foundations of healing prayer request's sinister, arrogant conjectures in detail. And the people who tell me this are correct, of course.

One of healing prayer request's former shock troops, shortly after having escaped from healing prayer request's iron veil of monolithic thought, stated, "That last statement is almost a tautology." This comment is typical of those who have finally realized that some people think it's a bit extreme of me to find the inner strength to carve solutions that are neither execrable nor obtuse -- a bit over the top, perhaps. Well, what I ought to remind such people is that for those of us who make our living trying to change the minds of those who show a clear lack of respect not just for those brave souls who fought and died for what they believed in, but also for you, the readers of this letter, it is important to consider that it takes more than a mass of maladroit lugs to oppose it and all it stands for. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to take away as many of its opportunities for mischief as possible. Healing prayer request's witticisms serve as a stepping stone to world government. And who will compose that world government? A ruling class consisting of larcenous, effrontive self-promoters and contumelious carpers. Now that you've read this letter, let me challenge you, the reader, not just to help me shoo healing prayer request away like the annoying bug that it is, but also to educate others about what I've written.

Google Alert - Heavy Metal

2005-10-16T13:59:00.000-07:00

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Helsinki throbs to Europe's only heavy-metal karaoke
The Gauntlet - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... on most nights, Hevimesta -- literally, "the heavy place" -- lets customers take the microphone twice a week, becoming Europe's only heavy metal karaoke club. ...

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2005-10-15T12:31:00.000-07:00

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Blabbermouth.net - White Plains,NY,USA
... Finland's Hevimesta -- literally, "the heavy place" -- lets customers take the microphone twice a week, becoming Europe's only heavy metal karaoke club. ...

3. Pictures in the Gold Room
The Gauntlet - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... where musicianship is concerned, and it certainly appears as if they set out to prove just how proficient they were in creating massive heavy metal architecture ...

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2005-10-14T13:35:00.000-07:00

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Heavy metal
Palo Alto Online - Palo Alto,CA,USA
... But all the curling blades have one thing in common: they were snipped from tin cans and other metal containers before being "planted" into metal panels. ...

Local musician aims for revival of city's heavy metal scene
Brockville Recorder and Times - Ontario, Canada
By TRACEY TONG. "Heavy metal? Do people still listen to heavy metal?" I asked Brockville's Aaron Kirkland earlier this week. When ...

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Indie Podcasting

2005-10-13T08:02:00.000-07:00

Indie rock bands

2005-10-13T01:39:00.000-07:00

* A Day Before Sunrise - Emo / indie rock band from Switzerland. Official Site includes lyrics, gallery, band news and MP3s.

* Aim Of Conrad - Post-punk indie rock band from Philadelphia.

* Althea - Post-punk / indie rock band from Tampa, FL. Official site includes news, show dates, discography, and merchandise.

* Appleseed Cast, The - Official site of the emo indie rock band from Lawrence, Kansas.

* Audiopilot - An indie rock emo pop quartet based in Los Angeles. Site provides general information, lyrics, tourdates, videos and MP3s.

* Bel Riose - Two brothers from Canada make music with one bass, one drum kit and two voices. Photos, song lyrics and MP3 clips, show list, and links.

* Big Drill Car - Orange County alternative indie rock band. Site includes band news, bio, discography, links, videos and MP3s.

* Billy Talent - Official website for the Canadian emocore band offers news, tourdates, bio, gallery, audio and video streams and merchandising.

* Black Rice - Post-rock from Vancouver. Site has MP3s, pictures and band news.

* Blatant - An emo indie rock band with a rough approach to songs. Site has music clips, band news and updates. Requires Flash Player.

* Blue Rose Liar - Post hardcore pop. Site features MP3s and contact information.

* Burn The Past - An indie rock band with punk influences from Guelph, Ontario Canada.

* Chase Theory, The - Emo indie rock band from Bradenton, Florida. Site provides general information, gallery and tour dates.

* Christie Front Drive - Fan site for the now defunct band. Site features post Christie Front Drive work, a discography and images.

* Coheed and Cambria - Official site of the Emoband from New York.

* Cursive - An omaha based indie rock band.

* Death to Cortez - Post-punk indie rock band from Boone, North Carolina. Site includes news, biography, and show information.

* Emoval - Home to the melodic hardcore/screamo indie rock band from Illinois.

* Engine Down - indie rock band from Richmond, Virginia.

* Funeral Diner - Emo indie rock band from California. Site features MP3s, tour dates and band news.

* Gone Overseas, The - Alternative-emo-punk indie rock band from southern Switzerland. Band biography, photos, discography, sound clips, and links. In English and Italian.

* Hey Mercedes - Merchandise, pictures, band news, contact information and MP3s.

* Hickory Tenpin - Official site for the emocore band from southern Sweden.

* Jibboo - An indie, emo, experimental, rock band. Website features free MP3 samples, pics, and general information.

* Kid Gloves - A DIY emo indie rock band from Oakland, CA. Site has MP3s and tour dates.

* Kill Verona - indie rock band from Philadelphia playing emotional rock. Flash page with dates, media samples and news.

* Lefthand - An emo/punk indie rock band from St. Louis.

* Mineral - Crank Records page for the Austin, TX based emo band.

* Pine, The - Emocore indie rock band from Bakersfield, CA. Official site includes news, show dates, discography, and links.

* Pinstripe - An emo indie rock bandfrom CT.

* Shindig - An emo/dance/punk indie rock band from WV. With news, release information, show dates,audio & video, lyrics and links.

* Sick Lipstick, The - indie rock band from Toronto, Canada with ex members of Black Cat #13. Would appeal to fans of Huggy Bear, Screamers, Arab On Radar, Le Shok.

* Sideproject - A 3-piece progressive indie rock band from wellington, New Zealand. Mixing elements of metal, jazz, rock and flamenco. Influences foreshadowing sideproject are meshuggah, mr bungle, system of a down and the deftones.

* Sides of the North - A Christian emo-core indie rock band from Urbana, Ohio, USA.

* Slept Through Class - Emo/ Screamo indie rock band of Rockford just outside of Grand Rapids, MI.

* Small Brown Bike - A indie rock band from Michigan playing punk rock. Site has band information, pictures, upcoming shows and a discography.

* The Appointment - A Hardcore Emo indie rock band from the Charlotte, NC Metro area.

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* Try Drowning - Emo indie rock band from the Netherlands.

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2005-10-12T14:28:00.000-07:00

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Profanity, not volume, unplugs metal concerts
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
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2005-10-11T12:27:00.000-07:00

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Music Promotion

2005-10-11T11:49:00.000-07:00

It's a late September afternoon in New York City and the newest, up-and-coming band, The Fray, is meeting with corporate bigwigs at Sirius Satellite Radio.

It's a long way from their start just three years ago when they were four friends from Faith Christian Academy in Arvada trying to start a band.

"It's very surreal. Even though you dream about it, once it starts, it's really fast," Fray drummer Ben Wysocki said via cell phone at the SSR office. "We were on the Weezer tour, and it was so weird because we were listening to these guys in grade school.

"Can you hold on a second?" Wysocki asked, putting down the phone to take a picture with some fans. "Sorry," he said returning to the phone. "It's still overwhelming."

Not many bands will make it this far, and Wysocki admitted getting here had a lot to do with luck.

While Colorado isn't exactly a hotbed for the music scene, music experts said there are some steps that can make the difference between cracking the big time as a headliner and being stuck in the opening act slot.

In addition to having talent, artists have to show they're willing to work, Peter Ore said. Ore promotes shows for Nobody in Particular Presents, one of the largest concert promoters in Colorado, which books shows for venues including Fort Collins' Aggie Theatre, Denver's Ogden Theatre and Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

Getting your guitar in the door all starts with self-promotion.

"If I book a new band and say, 'This is your chance to show me something,' and I see their fliers plastered all over town, that is a band that I will go back to," Ore said.

It's also about starting small.

Bands don't start at Red Rocks, Ore said, warning that there will be a lot of gigs at coffee houses and free shows at small clubs.

Once artists have a following and some shows under their belt, then they can start working to book larger concert venues.

"The Killers played The Bluebird, then The Paramount, then Red Rocks," Ore said.

Matt Campbell arrived in Fort Collins in July and is slowly working his way up the music scale.

Campbell, 28, plays open mike nights around town to test out new songs, and offers his CD, "The East 3rd Street Waltz," as a free download on his Web site (www.mattcampbellmusic.com). He also has learned to be his own best promoter; talking about his music to everyone he meets.

"I try not to be pushy because I think that's a turnoff, but I try to be confident in what I'm doing," Campbell said.

In the meantime, Campbell works a couple of day jobs to make ends meet, including building furniture at Goodwill, bartending at the Lincoln Center and picking up occasional shifts at ABCD's record store.

"I want music to be my career, but I have to pay the rent I suppose," he said.

In order to make it in music, it also doesn't hurt to have friends in high places.

When starting out, The Fray caught the ear of Westword's music writer Dave Herrera.

"Dave wrote on us and got us some attention," Wysocki said. "He got us a gig with the Westword showcase and we won best new band. He was really good for us."

The band also lucked out on the radio, getting play time on Channel 93.3's radio show Locals Only, which showcases local bands.

Their listeners became the bands new fans, Wysocki said. Channel 93.3 even had an online petition to help the band get signed by Epic Records, which was still considering the band.

"If it hadn't been for (the media), we would still be handing out CDs out of the trunk of our cars after shows," Wysocki said.

But their big radio break almost didn't happen.

"Another band had promised me a song, and I said I would hold a slot for them and it didn't come through," explained Channel 93.3 DJ Alf, who hosts Locals Only Sunday nights. "I had about six hours before the show. I was looking for something to fill in with and then I got an e-mail from Joe (King, the band's guitarist) asking where to send songs."

It turned out the band's song - now hit single - "Cable Car" was perfect for the slot so it made it into the show, Alf said.

The song worked so well, Alf submitted it to the station owners as a possible "regular rotation" slot. It was picked up and now "Cable Car" can be heard on several of Colorado's top radio stations.

"It's really weird (hearing ourselves on the radio)," Wysocki said. "Sometimes it's like, 'All right, already. Let's hear something else.'"

Sometimes a musical boost can come from other bands.

When jamgrass band WhiteWater Ramble started out less than a year ago, band members did all the requisite fliers and promotions, but they also went looking for a break.

After hearing that Railroad Earth would be playing the Aggie, the band did an impromptu basement recording session to create a digital music sampler. The band e-mailed it to every person on Railroad Earth's Web site along with a note asking to open for them at the Aggie show.

Within 10 minutes of hitting the send button, half the members of Railroad Earth had contacted them saying they loved it and asking them to be the opener, WhiteWater Ramble mandolin player Patrick Sites said recently. And because Railroad asked for WhiteWater Ramble specifically they were allowed to play at the Aggie, something that rarely happens to 4-month-old bands.

The band is still working to get opening slots for larger bands, but they've also headlined several of their own shows, and draw impressive crowds, at places such as Mishawaka Amphitheatre.

"They were a little skeptical (at the Aggie), but we had a great show," Sites noted. "It was kind of our coming-out party."

Once bands have made bridges they should be careful not to burn them.

"Respect the venues," Ore advised, recalling a recent run-in with a fledgling band that decided to live it up a bit too much following their show at Denver's Bluebird Theatre and got a lifetime ban from the venue.

"They smashed 30 of our pint glasses on the floor," Ore said. "I know it's rock 'n' roll, but its not 1972 and you're not Motley Crue."

Keeping your ego in check is critical, Wysocki agreed.

"We'll be very blessed to sustain a career doing what we love and what we're passionate about," he said. "Right now, we're doing the best we know how. If it doesn't work out, that's fine. We'll still play - whether we're huge or not."

The band still calls Denver home and has no plans to move to Los Angeles, he added.

"(Bassist Dave Welsh) still lives with his parents," Wysocki cracked.Making it means different things to different people.

For next-big-things like The Fray, it may mean selling millions of records and filling theaters.

"I can see Radio City Music Hall right now, and we're playing there tonight with Ben Folds," Wysocki said. "I get the chills - I can't even imagine that we're going to do that. Minutes ago we met Better Than Ezra and Switchfoot. Now I realize we're in the big leagues."

The Fray is still trying to get used to the idea of being famous, Wysocki said, nervously laughing as he halts to take another picture.

For Campbell, who is still working to get his name out to booking agents and getting opening act gigs, making it as a folksinger simply means making music.

"If I was singing pop songs, then maybe it would be about how many people I can pack in a club and selling lots of records and getting 13-year-olds to put pictures of me up on their walls," he said. "But I personally think that last one would be kind of creepy."

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2005-10-10T12:43:00.000-07:00

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Hindu festival

2005-10-10T10:34:00.000-07:00

Hundreds of local Hindus with roots from all corners of India and across the world have been coming together at the Hindu Temple of Greater Orlando to celebrate the female side of divinity in a 10-day community festival of color, folk music, song, dance and worship.

The annual fall festival, which began Tuesday, honors different feminine deities representing facets of the one supreme God for their triumph of good over evil. The festival continues through Wednesday.

The first nine days of the event, marked by worship, dance and devotional song, are called Navaratri, which means "nine nights." It commemorates the nine-day battle and ultimate victory of the goddess Durga over the demon Mahishasura.

The 10th and final night, called Dassera, is devoted to worship.

At the temple community hall in Casselberry, a rotating pedestal adorned in colorful flowers displays photos of the female goddesses Durga (representing strength), Lakshmi (representing prosperity and health) and Saraswati (representing knowledge).

The goddesses are paid homage for three consecutive days each, but their combined attributes are recognized as necessary to overcome worldly problems, said temple member Palavi Jahagirdar of Longwood.

"Each day of the nine nights is in honor of the goddess who conquered evil," Jahagirdar said. "All of these are ideals. They conquer the bad."

Jahagirdar noted that the mood of the festival is very upbeat because in India it coincides with the end of the monsoon season and post-harvest time.

As is the tradition in the northwestern Gujarat region of India, a crowd of all ages gathers at the temple community hall to dance around the deities to a lively beat.

The simple, traditional three-step folk dance called garba is infectious, said Sruthi Sarangarajan, 16, of Lake Mary, who likes to bring friends of different cultures to the festival.

"You can dance with old people, young people, anyone. It's really free," said Sruthi, a junior at Seminole High School in Sanford. "It's different from other [festivals] in that it's more vibrant and more participatory. Here, the audience members are the performers."

Sruthi's friend and classmate, Mitali Jahagirdar, 15, said the dancing is exhilarating but often leaves blisters on her feet. That's never enough to keep her from coming back each evening for more, she said.

"You're there and you're dancing your heart away. You completely forget about everything," Mitali, of Longwood, said.

After the garba dancing, celebrants take time to pay their respects to the goddesses by praying, lighting a lamp in worship (aarti) and offering fruits and sweets (prasad).

Afterward, the festivities often continue into the wee hours of the morning with a traditional raas folk dance with colorful, decorated sticks.

Mahendra Kapadia of southwest Orlando is in charge of temple cultural activities and organized this year's event.

Kapadia said that Indian folk bands from Orlando, Daytona Beach and India will provide music for the festival, which last year attracted 500 to 600 celebrants per weeknight and more than 1,200 on the weekend.

On Dassera, the 10th day of the festival, celebrants devote themselves to prayer and worship.

"That's when your attention is solely on God," Mitali said.

Mitali noted that Hinduism is a religion of one God, but that the festival honors the strong, feminine aspects of God manifested in the Mother Goddess Durga and the other goddesses.

"We worship different facets of God. It [the festival] is worshipping the feminine powers of God," said Mitali, whose family originated from Mumbai in Central India.

Color, decoration and a coming together of communities are hallmarks of the festival, which is celebrated differently in different regions of India and around the world.

"Navaratri is a really decorated festival. It's very multicultural within India and outside of India," Sruthi said.

Sruthi said that in southern India, where her family is from, ceremonies emphasize the goddess of knowledge by commemorating teachers on the 10th day.

Ceremonies honoring teachers are performed in other areas of India as well.

Devotional music plays a big part in south Indian celebrations. Devotional singer Dr. Vasundhara Iyengar of Orlando learned a nine-part composition honoring the female deities called the Navavarna kirtanas, which is traditionally sung or chanted in southern India during the festival.

Iyengar, originally from Bangalore, said the intention of the 18th century composer of the kirtanas, Muthuswamy Dikshitar, was to allow all people, regardless of means or education, to partake in the spiritual aspect of the holiday.

"You can just chant this lyric with real feeling and devotion and get the same benefit as performing the ritualistic worship," Iyengar said.

Modern-day celebrations in the West may also fuse traditional dance and music with hip-hop, disco and jazz moves and beats.

Dr. Aravind Pillai of Longwood said the theme of eradicating ignorance through knowledge is consistent in the celebration and in Hinduism.

"The remover of ignorance, darkness, evil -- they are all one and the same -- is knowledge," he said

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2005-10-09T14:32:00.000-07:00

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Judas Priest proves why other metal bands copy them
Lowell Sun - Lowell,MA,USA
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2005-10-08T13:13:00.000-07:00

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2005-10-07T12:33:00.000-07:00

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An invasion of heavy metal
Seattle Times - United States
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Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
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2005-10-06T13:40:00.000-07:00

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Heavy metal cult probed
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2005-10-05T13:56:00.000-07:00

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Malaysia probing revival of Satanic heavy metal cult
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2005-10-04T12:24:00.000-07:00

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2005-10-03T13:02:00.000-07:00

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Iron Curtain maiden loses her heart to Leeds heavy metal rocker
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
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2005-10-02T13:48:00.000-07:00

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New Heavy Metal Music Portal Goes Live At Metally.net
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(PRLEAP.COM) The Lunatic Studios have launched a new online service for heavy metal fans. The "Metal Loves You" music portal at ...

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2005-10-02T03:16:00.000-07:00

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British heavy metal rocker to marry daughter of Ukraine's ex-prime ...
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Fireballs, flying bottles fill heavy metal show
The Orion - Chico,CA,USA
A thick line of darkly clad, spiky haired and pierced-faced heavy metal teenagers curved around the side of the Senator Theatre on Friday night. ...

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Scientific American - USA
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DJ Jeff Rush

2005-10-01T23:49:00.000-07:00

DJ Jeff Rush is a Philadelphia area Club DJ, famous for mixing with 3 turntables simultaneously. He started in 1977 at 16 years of age, and continues today to be on the cutting edge of dance music.

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LEITMOTIV: the eurindie band

2005-10-01T23:41:00.000-07:00

leitmotiv n. m. Thème, phrase, formule ou idée qui revient plusieurs reprises dans un œuvre, qui joue sur un élément récurrent.

leitmotiv is a music project, it's a band, maybe a rock band, maybe not. it's the will to play, the need to say. it's a concept of indipendence: it's indie.

leitmotiv è l'evidenza che non è stata ancora scritta, ma più volte sentita.

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Italian alt-punkers leitmotiv belt out their casually revolutionary tunes in a bastard blend of French, Italian, and English. Luckily their scuzzily tuneful pre-grunge sound requires no schooling in those tongues--just a solid education by the Pixies and Replacements.

Listen to these songs, belonging to our first demo (Aug 2004):

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2005-10-01T02:44:00.000-07:00

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2005-09-30T08:44:00.001-07:00

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2005-09-30T08:44:00.000-07:00

British Heavy Metal Singer To Marry Daughter Of Ukraine's Ex-Prime ...
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2005-09-30T05:23:00.000-07:00

Anthrax: Potent thrash metal
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Mellow metal - OregonLive.com

2005-09-30T04:34:00.000-07:00

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Podcasting Stars

2005-09-30T03:07:00.000-07:00

Self-proclaimed tech geek Brian Reid got an MP3 player for Christmas and decided after fiddling with it for a while to start a little podcast called Sex Talk that focused on one of his passions: gender issues.
The suburban Washington, D.C., stay-at-home dad did a few broadcasts, touching on such sonorous topics as the Roman Catholic Church's stance on female priests, and then gave up back in April when his audience failed to grow beyond a few subscribers.
So imagine his surprise when, during the first week of July, Reid got an e-mail from an Australian reader of his blog congratulating him for having the 53rd-most-popular podcast on iTunes.

And so it went in the first fortnight after Apple Computer issued the software that turned podcasts mainstream. The upgrade to iTunes 4.9 on June 29 gave millions of iPod owners and iTunes customers a simple way to search for and subscribe to podcasts without any other software. Apple counted more than 1 million podcast subscriptions through iTunes in the first two days alone, according to a company press release.

Still, the switch came suddenly and without warning, turning a long list of mom-and-pop online audiocasters into overnight sensations, crashing servers across the nation and minting new internet stars in a way not seen since the early days of blogging.

And, of course, it left folks like Reid scratching their heads. Reid has no idea how his defunct podcast ended up listed in the iTunes directory -- and with an "explicit" label no less. He assumes that label and the Sex Talk name explain how he scaled the charts alongside such brand-name talkers as Air America Radio's Al Franken, Nightline's Ted Koppel and Z100 radio's Elvis Duran.

"I have entirely disappointed all those folks who expected to hear Jenna Jameson's voice and instead heard me," quipped Reid, 30, a freelance writer who has no plans to resume his podcast unless he can make it profitable. "It's very bizarre. The only reason why I found this funny was because I have unlimited bandwidth in my server package. If I were some of the others who got caught unaware, I would probably be apoplectic."

An Apple spokesman did not return several calls for comment.

Few podcasters are angered by the inconvenience -- they have, after all, gained hordes of new listeners -- but Apple's rollout had many wishing they had some notice beforehand. Paul Saurini, whose Denver-based Barefoot Radio podcast focuses largely on news items with some white-trash element to them, had to suddenly upgrade his server bandwidth package from $25 a month for 100 GB to a $300-a-month package for 1,200 GB after the new traffic exceeded his limit.

"I'm really grateful for what they're making happen for me, so I'm not complaining, really," said Saurini, 31. "I just wish I had been forewarned so I could be prepared to take full advantage of it."

Other problems abound. Several podcasts were listed multiple times. Yeast Radio podcaster Madge Weinstein, a Chicago drag queen, griped on one recording during that first week that she wasn't listed under "comedy." Rob Glenn, whose ilovebacon.com podcast is a discussion of news articles and websites he likes, complained that podcasters who weren't in the initial iTunes database had to create full-fledged iTunes accounts complete with a credit card number on file in order to be listed.

Andy Wibbles, whose Andymatic podcast deals with gay issues, agreed that Apple's rollout method led to "a lot of technical glitches."

"They added a whole bunch of data to the podcast format that's Apple-proprietary," said Wibbles, 30, an online marketing instructor in Chicago. "There are a bunch of tags that are only for the iTunes feed. They made up their own tags. I think the Apple thing is going to be great -- it's going to get the software installed on thousands of machines. But it's a double-edged sword."

Wibbles said that some of Apple's tactics favored big, well-known media outlets like ABC News, National Public Radio and Newsweek, all of which are fixtures in the top 100 list.

Yet while podcasts like Reid's Sex Talk and other early listers have dropped back from that pack, others have remained perennials in the rankings despite no prior following.

One is Cinecast, a movie show by a pair of Chicago film critics, only this time instead of Ebert and Roeper it's 30-year-olds Adam Kempenaar and Sam Hallgren. The show by Kempenaar, a web producer for the Chicago Blackhawks, and Hallgren, an intern at WBEZ-FM, was recommended on ex-MTV veejay and podcast pioneer Adam Curry's influential weekly Podfinder show in June and now has an estimated 50,000 subscribers.

Kempenaar credits their show's clear organization with its success. Unlike many podcasts, which feature stream-of-consciousness ramblings from hosts, the duo start by reviewing the latest movies, read some listener mail, offer their competing top-five lists in whatever the week's film category is and conclude with a Massacre Theater contest in which they read some dialogue and let listeners guess what film it's from.

"I sampled some other podcasts and decided we needed to do a show that's formatted the way you expect on the radio," said Kempenaar, who started the podcast in the spring as a hobby that gave him an excuse to tell his wife he needed to go to the movies with pal Hallgren. "We just hoped at first someone would hear it and like it."

The switch has also been a boon for folks who don't even see themselves as podcasters, like Las Vegas-based Daily Noise hosts Jimmy Diggs and Kaan Soler.

"We're doing a live show, but podcasting has created an archive for us," said Diggs, whose two-hour show includes interviews and Howard Stern-like shtick. "Now more people are hearing us whenever they want."

Podcasters aren't the only ones with issues. Now that podcasting is hitting the mainstream, listeners are realizing the limits of the current technology. There's as yet no way to bookmark content of podcasts so listeners can bounce to the part they're interested in as they do on blogs, and the iPod's forward button is notoriously slow and unreliable, critics say.

And, like in the blogosphere, much of the content is amateur and mediocre.

"I'd like to find one or two (podcasts) in comedy that are actually funny or even mildly amusing," said Frank Flynn, who worked for a decade for Apple and is now a programmer for MarketingGenius.com. "Most of this is like listening in on someone's phone call, but not as spicy."

Podcasting Gold Rush Is On

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The podosphere may be virgin terrain for the online world, but already the race is on to figure out whether there's any real money to be made through the new medium.

Consider the vast variety of approaches that have cropped up since Apple's iTunes upgrade this summer started delivering thousands of new listeners to podcasters who once toiled in obscurity.

GrapeRadio podcaster Brian Clark is now gulping down about $1,000 a week from sponsors of his show for wine hobbyists. Grant Baciocco of the fiction serial The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd sells show-themed buttons and T-shirts and offers guest-voice roles for $50.

Josh of Josh in Japan is asking for PayPal donations from fans of his tales of expatriate life, though so far only $14 has rolled in. And Jimmy Diggs uses his Vegas-based Daily Noise as a traffic generator for his internet radio site, LVRocks.com, where sponsors pay for banner ads. (Editor's note: LVRocks.com hosts the author's podcast, Vegas S&M)

"There isn't much information out there on how to do this," said Tim Bourquin, producer of the sports-themed Endurance Radio podcast. "It's a work in progress, how this all works."

Endurance Radio was sponsored for a time by Gatorade and is now carrying ads from Fleet Feet Sports, a chain of running-shoe stores. Buoyed by their success, Bourquin and his brother Emile now offer tips on how to profit from podcasting on their weekly Podcast Brothers show, and their website provides a boilerplate contract for podcasters to use with advertisers. Bourquin is also organizing the Portable Media Expo in November in Ontario, California, to teach other podcasters how to "monetize" their shows.

One of the biggest challenges, says Bourquin, is that most potential sponsors don't even know what a podcast is.

"I've learned not to go in and say, 'We have a podcast and you should advertise,' because their eyes will glaze over," said Bourquin. "Instead, say, 'We've got this online radio program.' It's not quite correct, but people understand that a little better. And then you tell them the neat thing is that people can get the show automatically downloaded onto their MP3 player."

In addition to polishing their pitches to advertisers, podcasters are experimenting with different business models. Some are considering offering part of the podcast for free and the rest for a fee. Others hope that a network will buy their shows for syndication on broadcast or satellite radio, thereby plucking them out of the podosphere altogether.

Diggs, of LVRocks.com, says advertisers are more persuaded when he tells them the site is getting more than 1 million hits a month than if he tries to estimate the number of unknown listeners downloading the shows he broadcasts. But some of the podcasters he hosts are finding success in getting commercial radio-show-style sponsors, including Renegades of Comedy, which landed an ad from the Vegas strip joint Cheetahs.

By and large, though, local business sponsorships don't work well, as Sam Hallgren and Adam Kempenaar of the breakout hit podcast Cinecast discovered when they landed ChicagoMixer.com as their first advertiser. The site, a dating service for Windy City singles, saw little increased traffic for its money, and Cinecast is now sponsored by DVD vendor MoviePassions.com, a more logical and less geographically dependant fit.

"Twenty percent of our listeners are from 59 other countries, so something specific to one location didn't turn out to be the best sponsor for us," Kempenaar said. "I wasn't really surprised, but this is new, so it's all trial and error."

With so much uncertainty surrounding the format, it's perhaps no surprise that few major companies have jumped into the podcast sponsorship game so far, and those that have are supporting tried-and-true news and entertainment providers. Z100, the New York radio station, signed Virgin Mobile for commercials on its podcasts of comedy bits and interviews from its morning show. ABC News has Verizon Online USA on board for podcasts of the audio of Nightline. And Slate had Chrysler plugging cars at the top of its daily podcast, in which editor Andy Bowers reads a story from the site.

"Chrysler was excited about supporting this new technology and being identified with Slate's launch of it," said Slate publisher Cliff Sloan in an e-mail. "Chrysler ran other ad campaigns on Slate at the same time. In general, we're finding that advertisers are looking for new and different ways to reach people."

Other brand-name podcasters see the podcast itself as the advertisement. Fox Entertainment produces a weekly two-minute podcast that that does nothing but promote upcoming episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy and yet often tops the iTunes charts. And Bravo has created podcasts featuring comic Kathy Griffin of My Life on the D List and the stars of Queer Eye For the Straight Guy that encourage listeners to watch those shows.

"It's an informational tool that extends our brand and our reach," said Frances Berwick, Bravo senior vice president for programming and production. "It's another way of enhancing the viewer experience. Our viewers tend to be upscale and early adopters of new technology."

Independent podcasters don't have the assurance of a built-in audience whose demographics they can rely upon. In fact, they struggle to even accurately count the size or makeup of their audiences -- information that advertisers covet. Some have rough ideas based on e-mail responses, site hits and, if they're lucky, download figures, but they say they can't tell how many people are listening through Apple's iTunes service, which doesn't share its statistics.

That's frustrating for folks like Cinecast's Hallgren and Kempenaar, whose show has been featured a couple of times on iTunes' homepage. The duo believe that iTunes is caching Cinecast on Apple's servers, and while they're grateful for the attention, they say that as a result users who subscribe to the podcast aren't downloading the program from the Cinecast server, making it impossible to accurately count the audience.

Denver-based Barefoot Radio co-host Paul Saurini, who is trying to gauge listener demographics through an online survey, is similarly delighted by the exposure Apple provides, but frustrated by the company's coyness.

"I'd even pay iTunes if they'd share the stats with me," said Saurini, 31, a self-described former stoner who chats about weird news items and plays music on his podcast. "I would love to learn how can I take advantage of their system better so I can get more listeners. They should realize that indie podcasters would pay for that information."

Even an appearance on the iTunes Top 25 podcast list or Top 100 download chart doesn't provide a solid metric, because Apple is mum on how the rankings are decided, and discrepancies between the two lists have gone unexplained. An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment for this report, and specifically refused to answer questions about the ranking system.

That leaves many would-be podcasting entrepreneurs on shifting ground.

Saurini, who plans to attend the Portable Media Expo, says he's unsure how to approach advertisers, so he's hoping one will hear his show and decide to invest in him. But he realizes his podcast, driven largely by his and his co-host's personalities and humor, could be a harder sell than topic-specific programs focused on running or movies.

Still, the passive approach sometimes works. Tower Records, for example, surveyed the podosphere for music-related podcasts they could sponsor and settled on two, Coverville and The Nashville Nobody Knows, for their first ventures. The selection came out of the blue for those podcasters.

"Basically, we love podcasting," said Tower marketing vice president Mike Jansta in an e-mail. "We were looking for a way to associate Tower Records with some of the unique and high-quality podcasts that are out there.... Coverville and The Nashville Nobody Knows were two podcasts that really stood out to us. The quality of the commentary and content of both are fabulous."

Many early podcasters say they're in it for the long haul and expect profits to come later.

"I think there is a lot of money to be made out of this, but it's in its infancy," said Mark Vavrick of Renegades of Comedy. "There's a lot of people with computers, but not everybody knows these shows are out there yet."

Rap Marketing Comes to Nerdcore

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Tupac and Biggie, move over. A new hip-hop feud is brewing that glamorizes not guns and 'hos but Java and secure encryption algorithms.
While gangsta rap is seen as celebrating the violence and aggression that claimed two of its brightest stars, "geeksta" rap is a hip-hop
genre celebrating coding skills and school grades. Also dubbed "nerdcore," this branch of hip-hop is for geeks, by geeks. Geeksta rappers
adopt the same combative verbal-assault stylings of their forerunners, but bust rhymes about elite script compiling and dope machine code.
The term was first coined in 2000 by nerdy New York rapper MC Frontalot in a track of the same name. Nerdcore now refers to artists
waxing lyrical about topics as disparate as engineering and Lord of the Rings.

In recent months, the field has seen a growing number of releases from computer science labs, where egocentric
grad students show off their Ph.D. credentials in tracks like "Have to Code" and "End of File.""The stigma that was
once attached to computer geeks and role-playing nerds is diminishing incredibly fast," said "digital gangster" Bryce
Case Jr., aka ytcracker. "It has almost become trendy to have skills on a computer. Rather than guns and 'hos,
I speak about DDOS attacks and camgirls."

The self-proclaimed "#1 greatest computer science gangsta rapper ever" is MC Plus+, a geeksta
leading light whose moniker comes from the C++ programming language.The Purdue University, Indiana,
Ph.D. candidate and "CS pimp," whose album Algorhythms was recorded with pirated software, calls
himself "the Tupac of the computer science world."
MC Plus+ rattles off lines like: "I'm encrypting shit like every single day; sending it across a network in a safe way;
protecting messages to make my pay; if you hack me you're guilty under DMCA."
But Plus+'s flow is dissed on the opposite coast by geeksta peers like Dan Maynes-Aminzade, aka
Monzy, a 25-year-old Minnesota-born Stanford grad student who recorded a dis track specifically to insult his rap rival.
"Our raps are filled with braggadocio, but instead of boasting about our bitches, blunts, Benzes
or Benjamins, maybe we talk about our math skills or the efficiency of our code," Monzy said.
Monzy said competition between universities and academic departments is nothing new,
and rivalries are a big part of the hip-hop tradition.
"Feuds between Nas and Jay-Z, Biggie and Tupac and 50 Cent and Ja Rule have received a lot of coverage and generally
result in more exposure for both artists, so I decided to bring this to the world of CS gangsta rap by starting a
feud with MC Plus+," Monzy explained.

Such talk could put fans on alert for a spiral of tit-for-tat nerdcore violence -- like that which marred the infamous
intercoastal rivalry between the Death Row and Bad Boy labels and culminated in the killings of their two top artists.
Plus+, who writes most of his rhymes in class, said he is about to release an insult track written in response to the Monzy's opening salvo.

"I saw two of my favorite rappers, Tupac and Biggie, get killed for no reason," he said. "But it's like this, man -- when
you're at the top, there is jealousy and, needless to say, haters are coming at you. I'm gonna tell Monzy:
'You ain't even on my level' -- you got to know me and only me."

The aggression also mirrors 1998's war of words between LL Cool J and Canibus, a computer science major and tech-centric rhymester who fabricated a feud to generate publicity, according to Journal of Hip-Hop editor Andrew Ryan, who teaches both computers and hip-hop culture at George Mason University, Virginia.

"Computer scientists, by training, use divide and conquer in almost any task," said Ryan. "Rap music, with all its complexities, provides (them with) the perfect conundrum.

"I don't think this new subculture will really stick, though," Ryan added. "If the genre is to succeed, you're going to need some females."

Nerdcore fans, meanwhile, are happy to identify with a music that speaks their own language.

Henry Lin, a geeksta fan and graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, said: "The lyrics are full of inside jokes that only those knowledgeable in computer science would understand. Besides, some songs do a good job of capturing the everyday struggles of computer science majors."

Frontalot, a New York designer who declined to give his real name, conceded he has "mediocre" mic skills, but said nerds can out-hip hip-hop's true superstars.

"I think CS graduates have a better chance than most rappers at calculating and devising hitherto unheard rhyme pairings," he said. "50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."

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Warner Music Group digital strategy chief Michael Nash said today that the major record labels could easily cut off the iTunes Music Store if Apple CEO Steve Jobs doesn't budge in the song pricing battle.

"What if Jobs says 39 cents or 29 cents per download—what then?" Nash asked during a panel discussion at the CTIA Telecomms Show. "The industry can say, OK we'll cut him off—very few people people buy music from digital downloads." The music executive said Jobs will have to find another way to help sell iPods. "[Jobs] will figure out another model," he said.

Nash also said that the music industry has let Apple get away with too much dominance in paid digital downloads. "The industry got together and said 'We don't want another MTV'. Well, now we've got another MTV, in Apple. And we have to deal with it," he said.

Greedy, greedy, greedy. First the label wants Apple to help bail them out… now they want to cut them off. Great editorial on the subject on radiobistro.com. Gouge Potatoes is what they call the record people! Pretty funny.

By Bovis on 09.28.05 at 11:27 AM

I believe the real problem is that the Music Industry is envious that somebody else is better at selling their music. Notice how they don't mention that they already get the majority of the money from a 99 cent song, so they're not hurting considering iTMS has sold over 500 million songs.

Because people were, and still are, tired of buying a full CD with 10 crappy songs to get one or two good songs, iTunes has provided a service that has proven very popular with consumers. The Music Industry just seems pissed at the fact they may actually have to provide a better product creatively if they are to sell complete albums.

I for one will be the first to go back to filesharing to get songs if they decide to cut off iTunes from their music.

By Number 5 on 09.28.05 at 11:55 AM

I say we ban Warner Music. So I'll make sure I do not buy from a Warner Label on iTunes, nor on CD. If they want to be greedy capitalists, then they will not recieve my business.

By fjltech on 09.28.05 at 11:55 AM

Did I read that right? "very few people people buy music from digital downloads"? What are they, on CRACK?

500 millions is "not enough people??"

Good GOD! These record execs need to get their collective heads out of their own ####! If the music industry dies due to rampant piracy, they will have NO ONE ELSE to blame but THEMSELVES!

By ahMEmon on 09.28.05 at 12:01 PM

Oh, and another thing; how many people own iPods around the world? Nice Public Relations move, threaten tens of million of people with cutting off their access to LEGAL music downloads.

Public opinion is against them, and they still find more stupid things to say.

Lets stop all the lawyer jokes out there and replace them with stupid Music Exec jokes:

How do you save a Music Exec from drowning?

You don't!!!!

When will they learn?

By Number 5 on 09.28.05 at 12:01 PM

"The music executive said Jobs will have to find another way to help sell iPods."

I think he has it backwards, iPods & iTunes help SELL LEGAL MUSIC. Last I heard, iPods will play pirated music just fine. I don't think Jobs and Apple will be the ones hurting from this..

By Bob on 09.28.05 at 12:17 PM

We Mexican owners of iPods don't EVEN have a iTMS yet (yes, that sucks). I didn't need an iTMS to decide purchasing an iPod. I bought it in order to have my OWN ripped CD collection (more than 6000 songs and counting) in it. All of my CDs are legally purchased, in the old-fashioned way. I'd buy digital songs if I could.

I still buy physical CDs and always will if music executives stop selling us "economedia" versions of CDs (terrible sound) in order to low prices. Now I find disturbing the new "copy-controlled" disks.

And they still complain about the overwhelming piracy in Latin America? Are they blind, insane, or just brainless?

All of the above, more likely.

By Rolandopagano on 09.28.05 at 12:22 PM

It's 500 million downloads, not people. Correct me if I'm wrong.

By abc on 09.28.05 at 12:23 PM

"If the music industry dies due to rampant piracy, they will have NO ONE ELSE to blame but THEMSELVES!"

No, the will continue to blame teenagers who share files, and then push more copy protection schemes through congress so all our fair-use rights are completely gone.

Sad, but true.

I can't wait until the music cartel is gone and the artists can publish themselves directly to iTunes.

By m.sherman on 09.28.05 at 12:27 PM

What a moron. I'm not going back into a store to buy a cd. I'm not getting rid of my ipod, because I've tried the others… so, it's either iTunes, or, well, the other less legal option. If anyone knows of any free download services that are not illegal, post them up, I'd be interested to buy music from someon not RIAA invovled.

Besides that, how can you compare this to MTV? MTV barely has music on it anymore—and they've whored themselves out to the windows media format a long time ago, snubbing the design community. Maybe MTV 1985, I'll give him that.

By Brady J. Frey on 09.28.05 at 12:30 PM

.99 cents per song is ok. I personaly think that it should be even cheapper, there is almost no cost per song compered for a regular store.

I personaly prefer to buy CDs, but for those single songs (CD's with only one good music), buying on the Net is ok.

I personaly like P2P programs, we share music! (share is totaly diferent of stoling and piracy).

I think that share songs on P2P programs is the same as goning to a friends house and record a CD on a cassete tape.

I'm not a Jobs lover, but I think that his is doing the right thing trying to mantain the price of the songs. I even think that it should be cheapper.

1 album on ITunes is around 10 dolars and one album on amazon is the same price (so I prefer the CD, so I can ripp it and mantain the CD).

By Billy Gun on 09.28.05 at 12:48 PM

well, I live in Mexico and rarelly buy CD's, when iTunes Music store came It was great, now there isnt a Latin America Music Store but I have A US credit card so I have been able to buy 1164 songs up to date, I dont think of buying CD's again, so if you cut iTunes you loose me as a customer

By checo on 09.28.05 at 12:52 PM

I agree with number 5. I bought my Ipod a year ago and haven't bought a CD cause I don't like every song on those CD's.

they [the music execs] don't wanna lose money with people buying single songs instead of entire albums.

What we [the comsumer] don't want is another Napster vs big Metal band court case, between Apple and the music execs

By Alastair on 09.28.05 at 12:55 PM

I don't think Apple is quite as smart or as altruistic in its efforts as people here think they are.

The price is gonna go up—that's a fact of life we gotta accept. Simply put, if the business model is gonna shift from trying to sell albums to selling singles, the price of a single is gonna have to go up.

As for the people who always threaten to go back to illegal downloading if the price goes up—I don't think you ever stopped illegally downloading.

The fight now is not to convince people to legally buy music online, the mission for the Labels is to discover how much they will pay. Apple's mission has been to see how much we will pay for an iPod—I don't see anyone complaining about that.

If the iPod had an FM tuner you wouldn't have to buy any of the hot songs—they play on the air all day long.

By Talking Madness on 09.28.05 at 12:55 PM

While it would be a negative to lose WBR from the iTunes store, it will hurt WBR more. I respect Apple for standing their ground and sticking up for the consumer. However ,it is WBR's product and they can charge what they want.

The MTV comment is funny as I've actually heard it from various label execs. Really they're just complaining because they can't control the entire puzzle and strong-arm consumers in to paying $30 for a CD.

No matter what, the labels will need to work with other players. Sometimes this means that they must be fair to the consumer too.

Soon most artists will go at it alone and bypass the labels altogether. Trust me… they are not helping.

By craigtheguru on 09.28.05 at 01:03 PM

http://www.petitiononline.com/iTp/petition.html

if you want to change this, sign this petition. i sumbmittted this as news, hopefully it can get on the main page.

By Ryan Imhof on 09.28.05 at 01:11 PM

Ryan-

That's a silly petition.

By Talking Madness on 09.28.05 at 01:29 PM

"As for the people who always threaten to go back to illegal downloading if the price goes up—I don't think you ever stopped illegally downloading."

You're right. Whenever I want a song, I always try to find it through illegal means first. If, and ONLY if, I can't get the song I want through illegal means, only then do I turn to iTMS to get the song legally.

Darn, you caught me!

By Biff on 09.28.05 at 02:02 PM

i still download music illegally.

By Navas on 09.28.05 at 02:12 PM

Worst...bluff...ever.

The record labels will never pull the plug on iTMS.

This is just posturing to get a better deal from Apple.

Greedy bastards.

By LSC on 09.28.05 at 02:21 PM

I would love to see these c o c k sucker CEOs TRY to cut iTunes off. "What if Steve Jobs said 29 cents or 39 cents for a song?" (Or something like that.) That wouldn't work now, and I hate when people exaggerate things. The iPod is at a fair price right now. So Jobs isn't really scamming anyone. Also, the people I know DID stop downloading illegally, not just because iTunes is a good product, but because AAC is much better than MP3 and not always to you get the file you think you're getting on P2P services, mostly because they're labeled incorrectly (most of the time on purpose), and if you do get the song you want then it is in some s h i t t y bitrate that makes it sound terrible. Maybe the record labels are right on one hand--older music should sell for less, but new music shouldn't sell for more. With no packaging costs, then they're making a bundle. Period.

By Jack on 09.28.05 at 02:39 PM

Oh Mr. Nash… you silly goose! Please pull the plug! Please, please, please! You'll only be hurting yourself and your artists.

The real issue is major label music execs are greedy control freaks. With itunes they can't control the profit margin and they can't control the charts. And since major labels don't actually care about music or consumers then Apple is a huge thorn.

I'll continue to buy only indie music. F you Mr. Nash.

By Travis on 09.28.05 at 04:11 PM

well, it seems the emule / edonkey network is going to get even more popular, if the labels win… hail to the mule!

By 12 MBIT DSL Idiot on 09.28.05 at 04:14 PM

I bet many of Job's iTunes converts d/led a crapload of music from napster etc. before the iPod showed up. Hollystupid felt they could not compete with free. Well water is free and in my case I buy plenty of bottled water.

By bizguy on 09.28.05 at 04:58 PM

Greedy, Greedy, Greedy. I can't say it enough. Yes, legal digital downloads is a small fraction of the music industry because it is a growing market. If both sides want to make money, which I think they do, they should LISTEN to the CONSUMER!! Hello?? I think the price point is good where it is and it does have some flexibility as with any growing market. The music execs need to understand that they are the problem why people commit piracy. They drove people away by overpriced CD's and poor quality of music on the CD's. If they want people to come back to buying music legally, they need to come off of their high horse and LISTEN to the CONSUMER who pays for their salaries.

By David on 09.28.05 at 05:13 PM

"Well water is free and in my case I buy plenty of bottled water."

This was the best words I readed those days! I think you are right on the way, some people prefer to get the songs on itunes cuz they are well encoded and they are (almost) all tagged correctly.

By Billy Gun on 09.28.05 at 05:20 PM

i sent an e-mail to the warner people telling them i'd start pirating their music again if they cut off iTunes.

i'll send you my next message from the court room.

cheers.

By japan on 09.28.05 at 06:13 PM

wow. has anyone here read atlas shrugged? because nash's proclamation sounded like something james taggart or one of his cronies might have said.

By chris on 09.28.05 at 06:17 PM

I personally have not bought a CD from a store in over 3 years. Yes I do rip CD from friends occasionally but usually I only keep the few songs I am interested in. This is the same on iTunes. You can buy the 1 or 2 songs per album you like or the whole thing if you like the band. I feel 99 cents is just right. Cause at the store you pay the same and there is packaging. The music companies are making so much more from iTunes and others, they are crazy to show this side. 1.49 per song would be the most I would ever pay if required beyond that I might just write my own music when I want something new. They are greedy bastards, living in big houses with new cars. Who is buying the music and paying for that… mostly us people just scraping by. And yes we can hear music for free all day long on the radio and satellite radio as well. Who are they fooling. I hope Apple (Jobs) tells them where to stick it.

By fingers420 on 09.28.05 at 07:17 PM

Just a minute…

are they thinking about raising prices across the board, or just ITMS's?

By ahMEmon on 09.28.05 at 07:18 PM

Buy your CDs from http://www.yourmusic.com/ for $5.99 with free shipping. 14,000 titles to choose from, with no limit.

By Galley on 09.28.05 at 07:26 PM

Thank you, Galley.

And Travis, 12 MBIT DSL IDIOT, bizguy, David, and Billy Gun, I agree with all of you.

By Jack on 09.28.05 at 07:32 PM

The record labels have benefitted from the gravy train for decades and realizing that they will be irrelevant before long has them grasping at straws ...

The ability to make perfect digital copies has had consequences that they never dreamed of when CD's were first introduced ...

My hope is that Apple/iTunes becomes a label and splits the 99 cents / download between the artist and Apple in a fair manner ... create a world ITMS without borders ... regional restrictions in terms of download availability is crazy in this day and age and is only in place because of the antiquated rules of the existing players.

By Derrick on 09.28.05 at 07:37 PM

do they actually believe themselves when they claim that iTMS drives the iPod sales? it's more like the other way around. I know plenty of people who have iPod but have never bothered buying from iTMS. Many of them claims that its not good enough quality for the price. If they raise the price, iTMS better be delivering CD quality music. And I know plenty of people whose primary use of the iPod is not for music. I find that I spend most of my time listening to podcasts and audiobooks. Alternative media is already emerging. New business model will develop and independent artists are still figuring out new ways to get their music to the masses. The record industry needs to get ahead of that curve instead of raising prices.

By Nipith on 09.28.05 at 11:34 PM

Nash is just making up stuff to be worried about. When did Jobs give anyone the idea he'd lower prices below 99¢? Somebody this irrational & unreasonable… what's he doing in business?

By Beth Whitmire on 09.28.05 at 11:41 PM

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2005-09-28T10:48:00.000-07:00

Musicgiants, a high-def digital music download service is all set to launch on Wednesday.
Billed as a download service for audiophiles, the 15-person company will offer songs that
are uncompressed and are encoded using windows media technology at 1100 kbps. In
comparison, Apple's iTunes and others like Real's Rhapsody offer music at a compression
rate which is a tad lower than the CD-quality, mostly to keep the file sizes down. Musicgiants'
business model is predicated on widespread deployment of broadband and speeds which
can handle the big-phat downloads. So far, the service works only on Windows PCs.

"If you're listening to compressed music using your iPod earbuds, you won't notice much
difference [from a CD]," says Scott Bahneman, founder and chief executive of tiny startup
MusicGiants. "But once you play it on a good home stereo, the difference is huge." Even
an empty 40-gigabyte hard drive would hold only 100 CDs or so. A 1-terabyte drive from
LaCie USA, may be more like it, if you've got $949 with nothing better to do. (Business Week)

The songs cost $1.29 a download, and you have to pay $50 a year membership fee.
The Nevada-based company claims its sound quality is seven times that of other download services.

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BitTorrent gets $8.75M from venture-capital firm

2005-09-28T10:38:00.000-07:00

BitTorrent, developer of one of the most popular software programs for acquiring free video and other large files on the Internet, has raised $8.75 million from a venture-capital firm.

BitTorrent says it will use the funds from DCM-Doll Capital Management to improve its infrastructure and make it more appealing to Hollywood.

The investment comes as file-sharing companies - most of them tiny start-ups - are scrambling to legitimize. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that file-sharing service Grokster and StreamCast Networks, which operates the Morpheus service, could be held liable for their users' actions.

"The piracy business is not something anyone can make money on," says Ashwin Navin, who co-founded BitTorrent with Bram Cohen. "We want to distribute paid and ad-supported content, using this technology."

BitTorrent is the second-most-popular file-sharing program, with 33% market share, according to research firm CacheLogic, after eDonkey's 50% share. BitTorrent specializes in helping users nab huge files quickly.

Navin concedes that some users download movies without paying for them but says BitTorrent isn't the only technology that can be used illegitimately. "You can also use a browser to view child porn and Microsoft Word to cut and paste and plagiarize," he says.

He says the company is meeting with movie studios and other copyright holders to negotiate use of BitTorrent to distribute content.

Separately Monday, Internet search giant Google started a four-day webcasting of the pilot episode of the UPN TV network's new Chris Rock sitcom, Everybody Hates Chris. It's the first time Google has presented entertainment programming at its new video project, video.google.com. (Related item: Google offers prime-time video streamcasts)

Michael McGuire, an analyst at research firm GartnerG2, says Hollywood is getting the message that fighting new technology may not necessarily be the best answer. Since the record labels began suing song-swappers in 2003, use of file-sharing programs has skyrocketed.

In August, 9.6 million were logged onto file-sharing networks at any given time, up from 6.8 million the previous August, according to Internet measurement firm BigChampagne. File-sharing software is "a very efficient way to distribute content," McGuire says.

Google and Yahoo, which is also actively working to bring entertainment content to the Web, offer content that can be viewed online but not downloaded to a PC or other device. Navin says downloading is more efficient, because you can watch it anytime.

"Google has proven that if you have traffic, you can make money," says David Chao, DCM's managing general partner. "We have 45 million users worldwide and a huge amount of traffic. We know that p2p advertising is a real business now."

Fireballs, flying bottles fill heavy metal show - The Orion

2005-09-28T01:10:00.001-07:00

Fireballs, flying bottles fill heavy metal show
The Orion, CA - 1 hour ago
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Tune in to Heavy Metal - Shallow Water Angler Magazine

2005-09-28T01:10:00.000-07:00

Tune in to Heavy Metal
Shallow Water Angler Magazine - 14 minutes ago
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Heavy Metal - Fast Company

2005-09-27T15:16:00.002-07:00

Heavy Metal
Fast Company - 5 hours ago
... The metal bottle debuted a year ago, but only with Michelob products. ... So will the metal bottle challenge the can or glass bottle for market supremacy? ...

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Heavy Metal Makes Lighter Planes - Wired News

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Heavy Metal Makes Lighter Planes
Wired News - 6 hours ago
SYDNEY, Australia -- The distinctive growl of a light plane may soon be accompanied by an eerie hum, thanks to Australian research that shows the effectiveness ...

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Annihilator: tutto su "Schizo Deluxe" - Heavy-Metal.it

2005-09-27T15:16:00.000-07:00

Annihilator: tutto su "Schizo Deluxe"
Heavy-Metal.it, Italy - 6 minutes ago
... screaming at me to give them this time: brutal guitar riffs and solos, second-to-none musicianship and back-to-the-roots thrash/heavy metal metal songwriting".

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2005-09-27T01:52:00.000-07:00

Prevention: What Amplified Music Is the Loudest? All of It
New York Times, United States - 10 hours ago
... "There's a misconception out there that heavy metal is louder than pop, which is louder than country," said the lead researcher, Dr. David A. Opperman of the ...

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Masters of Horror CD Soundtrack - Rikks Revues

2005-09-26T10:41:00.000-07:00

Masters of Horror CD Soundtrack
Rikks Revues - 44 minutes ago
... of Horror MP3 Clips of Music Featured follow reviews as do price comparison links to buy Masters of Horror Soundtrack and other links to Heavy Metal and Hard ...

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Heavy-Metal Sweat - Scientific American

2005-09-25T22:22:00.000-07:00

Scientific American

Heavy-Metal Sweat
Scientific American - 1 hour ago
By Gary Stix. I received a call several months ago from a publicist for a company promoting an infrared sauna--a machine that is ...

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Metal fan gets 3 years for church blaze - NEWS.com.au

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Metal fan gets 3 years for church blaze
NEWS.com.au, Australia - 1 hour ago
A HEAVY metal fan who torched a century-old church in Melbourne has been sentenced to three years' youth detention. Novak Majstorovic ...
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Report: Imported Chinese Kimchi Contains More Lead Than Korean - Donga

2005-09-25T15:57:00.000-07:00

Report: Imported Chinese Kimchi Contains More Lead Than Korean
Donga, South Korea - 1 hour ago
... Currently there is no standard for permissible amount of heavy metal for Kimchi. But the tolerable amount of heavy metal for fruits ...
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Sunday Morning Playlist: British Invasion - Blogcritics.org

2005-09-25T10:19:00.000-07:00

Sunday Morning Playlist: British Invasion
Blogcritics.org, OH - 2 hours ago
... progressive rock (Sgt. Pepper, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd) and ultimately heavy metal (Argent, Led Zeppelin). In the 70's, plenty ...

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Canadian Documetary Makers Aim To Expose Heavy Metal To Broader ... - Blabbermouth.net

2005-09-25T07:24:00.000-07:00

Canadian Documetary Makers Aim To Expose Heavy Metal To Broader ...
Blabbermouth.net, NY - Sep 13, 2005
Sam Dunn and Scot McFayden, the filmmakers behind the brand-new documentary offering a guided tour through heavy metal's storied but largely ignored history ...

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Heavy Metal Cinema: Rock, Shock and Schlock - SFStation.com

2005-09-24T21:28:00.000-07:00

Heavy Metal Cinema: Rock, Shock and Schlock
SFStation.com, CA - Sep 1, 2005
Heavy metal rock music has always offered a form of rebellion against authority to young people. This series examines this phenomenon ...

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The heavy metal genre: who invented it? - Blogcritics.org

2005-09-24T10:53:00.000-07:00

The heavy metal genre: who invented it?
Blogcritics.org - Aug 31, 2005
... something. Deep Purple was the first successful band to consistently put out a heavy metal vibe, years before Black Sabbath existed. They ...

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'Heavy metal' exhibit - Oklahoma Daily

2005-09-24T08:58:00.000-07:00

'Heavy metal' exhibit
Oklahoma Daily, OK - Sep 8, 2005
by Maria Chavira. An exhibit featuring the thought-provoking sculptures of an OU professor and a visiting artist will open tonight ...

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Excessive Force Allegations At Christian Heavy Metal Concert To Be ... - Blabbermouth.net

2005-09-24T04:16:00.000-07:00

Excessive Force Allegations At Christian Heavy Metal Concert To Be ...
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Cameron: Heavy metal is in my blood - Rocky Mountain News

2005-09-23T23:43:00.000-07:00

Cameron: Heavy metal is in my blood
Rocky Mountain News, CO - 30 minutes ago
... I also have a high concentration of another "heavy metal" in my bloodstream: lead. No wonder I'm reluctant to throw away all my Black Sabbath albums! ...

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Concert-Bound? Take Your Earplugs - Forbes

2005-09-23T12:44:00.001-07:00

Concert-Bound? Take Your Earplugs
Forbes - 3 hours ago
FRIDAY, Sept. 23 (HealthDay News) -- If you're a concert fan -- whether your taste is heavy metal or pop -- don't forget to take your earplugs. ...
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Heavy Metal Rockers Maximum Overdrive Pay Tribute To 9/11 - Top40-Charts.com

2005-09-23T12:44:00.000-07:00

Heavy Metal Rockers Maximum Overdrive Pay Tribute To 9/11
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Heavy metal's rodomontades are thoroughly disgusting -- so much so, that if there are any children or sensitive people reading this letter, I suggest that they stop now and not read what I am about to describe. The rest of this letter is focused exclusively on heavy metal, not because I harbor any ill-will towards it but because not only does it pose a threat to the survival of democracy, but it then commands its emissaries, "Go, and do thou likewise." In a broad-brush sense, if heavy metal doesn't realize that it's generally considered bad style to trample over the very freedoms and rights that it claims to support, then it should read one of the many self-help books on the subject. I recommend it buy one with big print and lots of pictures. Maybe then, heavy metal will grasp the concept that we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: heavy metal.
After watching heavy metal's adherents cause (or at least contribute to) a variety of social ills, one might conclude that heavy metal et al. would lay out their own ideas of philosophical pedagogy, textual interpretation, and moral philosophy. Surprisingly, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, heavy metal is trying to brainwash us. It wants us to believe that it's crazy to draw a picture of what we conceive of under the word "macracanthrorhynchiasis"; that's boring; that's not cool. You know what I think of that, don't you? I think that heavy metal has recently been going around claiming that it can achieve its goals by friendly and moral conduct. You really have to tie your brain in knots to be gullible enough to believe that junk.
Heavy metal is differentiated from your average scummy, litigious fault-finder by virtue of the fact that it wants to feed blind hatred. Heavy metal has vowed that by the end of the decade it'll impugn the patriotism of its opponents. This is hardly news; heavy metal has been vowing that for months with the regularity of a metronome. What is news is that it doesn't want us to know about its plans to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding mandarinism. Otherwise, we might do something about that. I find that some of heavy metal's choices of words in its tirades would not have been mine. For example, I would have substituted "balmy" for "uncontrovertibleness" and "counter-productive" for "biblicopsychological."
There are many illustrations of this. Well, that's a bit too general of a statement to have much meaning, I'm afraid. So let me instead explain my point as follows: Heavy metal says that the ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids. What it means by this, of course, is that it wants free reign to steal the fruits of other people's labor. I doubtlessly hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but heavy metal claims that a totalitarian dictatorship is the best form of government we could possibly have. I suspect that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves, although I should add that heavy metal's prevarications are designed to resolve a moral failure with an immoral solution. And they're working; they're having the desired effect. So maybe heavy metal's apparatchiks can't defend their undertakings. Big deal. What's more important is that heavy metal operates on an international scale to feed us a diet of robbery, murder, violence, and all other manner of trials and tribulations. It's only fitting, therefore, that we, too, work on an international scale, but to force heavy metal into deserved bankruptcy.
Heavy metal teaches workshops on voyeurism. Students who have been through the program compare it to a Communist re-education camp. In order to fight tooth and nail against heavy metal, we must address the continued social injustice shown by the most vile pop psychologists I've ever seen. And that's just the first step. Remember, heavy metal extricates itself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. Heavy metal should think about how its mottos lead combative recidivists to ascribe opinions to me that I don't even hold. If heavy metal doesn't want to think that hard, perhaps it should just keep quiet.
If heavy metal can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that we're supposed to shut up and smile when it says closed-minded things, I will personally deliver its Nobel Prize for Huffy Rhetoric. In the meantime, heavy metal is not only immoral, but amoral. It may be coincidence that heavy metal's asseverations diminish society's inducements to good behavior. It may be coincidence that they oppress, segregate, and punish others. And it may be coincidence that they trample into the mud all that is fine and noble and beautiful. But that's a lot of coincidence!
Heavy metal contends that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as it and that, therefore, it can play fast and loose with the truth and get away with it. This bizarre pattern of thinking leads to strange conclusions. For example, it convinces churlish chuckleheads (as distinct from the materialistic popinjays who prefer to chirrup while hopping from cloud to cloud in Nephelococcygia) that heavy metal has a duty to conceal the facts and lie to the rest of us, under oath if necessary, perjuring itself to help disseminate the True Faith of Dadaism. In reality, contrariwise, even heavy metal's representatives are afraid that heavy metal will call for a return to that which wasn't particularly good in the first place in a lustrum or two. I have seen their fear manifested over and over again, and it is further evidence that we need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with heavy metal. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that heavy metal might create new (and reinforce existing) prejudices and misconceptions before you know it. What are we to do then? Place blinders over our eyes and hope we don't see the horrible outcome?
While I assert that heavy metal has every right to its besotted, directionless opinions, if propagandism were an Olympic sport, it would clinch the gold medal. If heavy metal is going to make an emotional appeal, then it should also include a rational argument. I am aware that many people may object to the severity of my language. But is there no cause for severity? Naturally, I feel that there is, because if I may be so bold, heavy metal's slogans are based on a denial of reality, on the substitution of a deliberately falsified picture of the world in place of reality. And this dishonesty, this refusal to admit the truth, will have some very serious consequences for all of us some day. Heavy metal does not merely intensify race hatred. It does so consciously, deliberately, willfully, and methodically. Heavy metal either is or elects to be ignorant of scientific principles and methods. It even intentionally misuses scientific terminology to convert our children to cultural zombies in a mass of unthinking and easily herded proletarian cattle.
To simplify, heavy metal wants to engage in an endless round of finger pointing. What's wrong with that? What's wrong is heavy metal's gossamer grasp of reality. In the past, organizations like heavy metal would have been tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail for trying to defile the air and water in the name of profit. If we don't advocate social change through dialogue, passive resistance, and nonviolence right now, then heavy metal's publicity stunts will soon start to metastasize until they bamboozle people into believing that neopaganism is the only alternative to factionalism. Lest you think that I'm talking out of my hat here, I should point out that heavy metal yields to the mammalian desire to assert individuality by attracting attention. Unfortunately, for heavy metal, "attract attention" usually implies "perpetuate the myth that it's okay to spit on sacred icons".
It's not that I have anything against lotharios in general. It's just that people tell me that heavy metal is a scion of discourteous scoundrels. And the people who tell me this are correct, of course. And that's it. The underlying reasons and causes for heavy metal's squalid agendas must be defined, examined, and resolved, or they'll never cease.

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