YourGuitarist Offers Musicians Internet-Based Custom Guitar Tracks

YourGuitarist Offers Musicians Internet-Based Custom Guitar Tracks

YourGuitarist.com announced the launch of its web site, offering Internet based development of custom guitar tracks for artists worldwide. YourGuitarist allows musicians to avoid the high studio fees usually associated with producing guitar tracks for their songs. Using the Internet to collaborate with a professional guitar player while cutting out the middleman should allow everyone to save time and money.

The exciting new service puts awesome guitar work in the hands of any producer, songwriter, or engineer. No longer is it required to bring a guitar player into your studio and spend time miking amps, dialing in sounds and retaking for bum notes or out of tune parts. Through yourgutiarist.com, musicians get completely accurate parts, recorded with the sounds that you have come to expect from the best guitar playing out there today.

YourGuitarist.com founder Lou Lombardi conceived of the idea of Internet based guitar track development while working with a client with a busy schedule. Due to the client's performance demands, it was difficult to find a time to collaborate. Lou thought there had to be an easier way to work with the artist other than phone conferences and FedEx overnight CD's.

Researching this problem led Lou to the Internet, where he worked with partners to develop a system that allows him to remotely collaborate with clients online. Clients can speak with Lou on the phone while also swapping guitar tracks online, leading to fast development of their high quality music.

Lou said, "The response has been great so far. The artists really like it because it gives an 'in-studio' feel to what used to be a somewhat impersonal way to get their guitar tracks laid down."

Right now artists can go to YourGuitarist.com and listen to sample tracks. Once they have decided to purchase a custom track, all that is required is a rough sketch of how their song will flow.

Upon receipt of the song sketch, a professional YourGuitarist.com player with years of experience is assigned to the client and development begins. No stock guitar work is used, everything is produced solely for the client's project. Work continues until the artist is happy with the custom track. Finally, the track is recorded in a professional studio and delivered online to the artist, or optionally via overnight CD.

Pricing for custom guitar development varies based upon the project, but most budgets can be accommodated. In select instances, payment can be partially based on residual commissions for use of the track.

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Copywriter’s Secret To Help You Write Winning Songs

Copywriter’s Secret To Help You Write Winning Songs

By Ron Balagot

You may not have heard of the late Eugene (Gene) Schwartz, but he’s considered one of the greatest copywriters who ever lived.

(By the way, Webster’s New World Dictionary defines a copywriter as: A writer of copy for advertisements or promotional material. And copy, according to the same dictionary, means: The words of an advertisement, as distinct from the layout, pictures, music, etc.)

The truth is, with a single sales letter, he helped build Boardroom Inc. to a $50 million a year direct mail publishing company. (You’d be surprised to know that Boardroom’s owner, Martin Edelston, only had $3,500 left in his pocket when he asked for Gene’s help.)

Yes, he was that good.

In fact, he was such a good copywriter that he became one of advertising’s highest paid consultants. (Rodale Press, another publishing giant, once paid him a commission of $54,000 for 4 hours of work. That’s $13,500 an hour.)

Furthermore, he authored a book called Breakthrough Advertising...which many copywriters/marketers consider a marketing classic. (Believe it or not, one reader from the financial industry is said to have raised his net worth from $100,000 to $10 million within a year of obtaining the book.)

And the list goes on.

But what’s most impressive about Gene is the fact that he had an amazing 85% hit ratio when it came to writing advertising copy. Meaning, out of every 100 ads he wrote, 85 were winners (which is quite an achievement in the direct marketing industry).

Now, would you like to know what helped him create those winners?

Would you like to know what one of his biggest secrets was to writing winning advertising copy?

Well, what he would do is this...

During his writing sessions, he would set a timer for 33.33 minutes...and when the timer went off, he’d take a 5 minute break. Then after the 5 minutes, he’d get back to work. (Basically, he’d go through this routine throughout his writing sessions.)

Why did he do this?

According to Gene, people can’t work for a very long period of time without interruption. Plus, when they do work for long periods, they end up exhausting themselves too quickly (mentally, that is).

This 33.33 minute routine not only helps keep the mind fresh, it gives inspiration a chance to sneak in.

And you know what else is interesting?

Gene never experienced writer’s block (something many writers have problems with). In fact, he was able to create 12 to 15 mailing pieces a year...without having any trouble starting on them. (And he only worked 3 to 4 hours a day.)

Now, can you see how this could be helpful in your songwriting?

I mean, if this technique could help improve your creativity (and productivity) in a big way, wouldn’t you agree that there’s a bigger chance you’ll end up with better songs? Winning songs? The way Gene ended up with winning advertising copy?

I’m pretty sure you’d say yes.

Actually, at first, I never really thought about the different benefits of this idea. But after a short while, not only did I notice a dramatic improvement in my creativity and productivity, I also experienced fewer neck/back pains...and less eye strain (the frequent rest periods helped a lot).

Of course, you don’t need to set the timer for exactly 33.33 minutes (I actually set mine for 30). But something close to those numbers would probably be a good idea.

The point is: You want to give some time to your “subconscious mind” to work on what you were writing. (In other words, you want to keep your “conscious” mind focused on things other than what you were working on...so it will not interfere in the creative process.) And the best way to do this is to take a break and do something else.

Here, consider these related quotes:

So what you do is you take your conscious mind
and you focus it on making a new cup of coffee.
That holds it there, and then ideas can kind of bleed into
the back of your mind and come into the front of your mind.

-- Eugene Schwartz

My greatest inspirations or creations come when I’m shaving.

-- Eugene Schwartz

Remember that creativity is what happens between your thoughts.

-- Michael Ray, Stanford Business School professor
and author of The Highest Goal

(Tip: I highly recommend that you use this technique in conjunction with the one I talked about in my earlier article, Write Songs Like The Pros With This Powerful And Proven Technique. I found that when I combined the two, I got maximum results.)

Well, now that you’ve learned how this technique can help you write winning songs, go ahead and give it a try.

You’ll be amazed with the results.

About the Author:

Ron Balagot is a songwriter/musician/writer and a graduate of the world-renowned Grove School of Music. Through articles like this, he hopes to help aspiring songwriters attain their songwriting goals. You can reach him at: balagot.ron@gmail.com

SXSW 2006: Teach Your Children Well

SXSW 2006: Teach Your Children Well

20 Years On And Still Dancing Strong

by Linus Gelber,

MusicDish Network Sponsor

March 15-19, Austin, Texas: The streets and clubs here in Music City are choked with business, with pleasure, and with high crackling energy. If you're looking for the big time, you're looking in the right place. What's about to unfold is a celebration of two decades of music, music love, and music business: the South by Southwest music conference turns 20 years old this week, and there is much rejoicing. This is the biggest and baddest version of SXSW that Austin has ever seen, and here we are in the thick of it.

Once upon a time back in 1986, in a galaxy far away, a merry band of music lovers decided to grab the world by its vinyl platters and rattle something good out of the mix, in the context of good eats, good drinks, and downhome Texas hospitality. The first SXSW lurched to its feet before a music industry just guessing at the grand lucre in the newest medium in music delivery, the glistening CD.

Twenty years later, the conference is America's biggest working shindig for the music industry, with a mighty organizing arm and a wide network of staff and volunteers coping with a record crowd: the numbers aren't precise at press time, but the office tells us there are over 10,500 registrants in town to see more than 1,400 bands in 50+ venues, and that's not counting the scores of day parties, after-hours shows, hanger-on jamborees, in-stores and more. The sky is probably still falling, but judging by the crowded schedule of events, it won't be landing any time this year.

Tuesday, Day 0: Sometimes the Swollen Circus unofficial night-before-SXSW revue up at the Hole in the Wall is a weathervane for the days to come, and sometimes it's just a Grand Ol' Operetta, a tasting menu of music served up among friends. One way or the other, it's a traditional way to get the juices flowing.

This is Year 11 for the party, put together annually by Walter Salas-Humara of The Silos (New York) and bandman around town Michael Hall(Austin). The hosts have polished their music as smooth as sandalwood grips, and it's as warm in the hand as anyone could ask. The Silos play their rock-edged Americana so easily and with such joyous conviction that they almost look uncomfortable when they're off stage; Hall too has his groove down to an art, and together they anchor a wandering evening that stays for the most part to middle ground.

That Dayna Kurtz (Brooklyn) finds her best audience abroad is proof positive that America just doesn't listen - her dark smoky vocals are warm as night, and her bruised songs flutter on the verges of hope, never quite trusting the lay of the land. She's the kind of singer who changes the shape of a room in subtle ways, and the short one-two-three format of the Swollen Circus is far too brief a haven.

Jon Dee Graham (Austin) brings the same gravitas to his turn on stage, with eloquent, irresistible loping guitar behind his firm, baked-sand desert vocals. Between them they aren't on stage more than 20 minutes or so. It's remarkable how much good work can get done in 20 minutes.

The rest of the lightning night is a mixed bag. Some of the better prizes include The Moaners (Chapel Hill), who mix pell-mell chops and spiky swagger into a brief and appealing come-hither get-lost rush, but this isn't their room to win this time out. Don Piper and Matt Keating & Emily Spray hit stride quickly and snatch luminous moments from thick air, and Cordero (New York) freshen the mix with a splash of Latin indie rock that adds a welcome bit of zest to the lineup - they even have a trumpet on board. It's a sly reminder that music is a pack event, and if you're not lead dog you may be best off running in a totally different direction.

Cordero - www.corderomusic.com

Jon Dee Graham - www.jondeegraham.com

Michael Hall - www.michaelhall.org

Matt Keating & Emily Spray - http://mattkeating.com

Dayna Kurtz - www.daynakurtz.com

The Moaners - http://themoaners.com

Don Piper - www.adonpipersituation.com

The Silos - http://thesilos.net

Wednesday, Day 1: The Beastie Boys are the luminaries this afternoon if you roll that way, and if you don't, then this is a spin-up-to-speed respite of a prep day. Throngs move relentlessly in on the convention center, eager iron filings in search of a comforting magnet. The first parties launch. It's days like these that make fatted calves really, really nervous. Moral of that story: Hooves 0, Opposable Thumbs 1, and pass the barbecue sauce.

The BMI-sponsored Day Stage is parked in a useful spot near the coffee stand in the convention center, properly arranged with care and attention, and finely booked. Band Marino (Orlando) beams infectiously through a noontime kickoff set that matches jammy urges with pop sensibility, mixing heartfelt and goofy songs in a grinning winning combination. Paris Motel (London) follows, an airy quintet dressed in a smart yesteryear welter of fedoras, suspenders, and starched shirtsleeves, fronted by dark-haired Amy May on vocals, violin, and smashing red dress. At first I think this is a clever bit of Paris Hilton cheek, but the band is actually named after - get this - a motel in Paris, which figures into the lyrics of their first number. Their dreamy lounge-a-billy goes down easy, and in fine style.

Austin By Night: The Carrots (Austin) lift their schtick from schtick gone by, which makes it feel fresh again: they're a girl band, and for the most part they cover girl band hits. Holding the mirror up to nature passes for irony these days, and they handle their material with respect but not reverence. The unpolished homespun air is probably unintentionally historically accurate, and though they go by Prude, Rude, 'Tude, Crude, Nude, and Lewd, in fact they're all well-behaved and tastefully turned out. The Carrots are a charming one-trick outfit, but it's a fine trick, and they have time to learn new ones. Down at the far creekside end of 6th Street, Sean Costello (Atlanta) is unleashing some mighty guitar blues - he's been a first-water sideman, and he's a performer who lets the music coil through him as he plays.

It's not SXSW until I see Cruiserweight, a local pop-punk whirlwind quartet that bounded onto my must-dance card a few years back. Singer Stella Maxwell is a blaze of energy on stage as always, tuneful and mocking and self-mocking and earnest and irrepressible all at once. With her brothers Urny and Yogi making order out of chaos on guitar and drums - and their friend Dave on bass - they're anthemic, sweet, and faintly risky, like Teletubbies for the young 20-something set.

Running purely on the strength of Band Names That Make Me Smile, I detour to catch a few songs by Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, who turns out to be Sam Duckworth (Essex/Southend), Sam Duckworth's guitar, and a set of backing computer tracks. He's got a big skilled voice and an appealing honesty on stage, and when he breaks into little dances you feel like you're intruding into his private rock-star fantasy. It works.

My favorite first taste of the night is Coach Said Not To (St. Paul), an unexpected quartet of women who sing boppy and slightly dotty songs pitched carefully between novelty and import, and rendered in pleasant and partially-deconstructed fashion. There's suburbia in this band. Not the suburbia of Stepford pacing and whitebread tastes, but the suburbia of half-finished rec rooms and cluttered garages: you might find anything in there, if you root around enough. All that, and spangly tops. It doesn't get much better than this, at least not on a Wednesday.

Band Marino - http://bandmarino.net

The Carrots - www.myspace.com/thecarrots

Coach Said Not To - www.coachsaidnotto.com

Sean Costello - www.seancostello.com

Cruiserweight - www.cruiserweight.com

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - http://getcapewearcapefly.co.uk

Paris Motel - www.parismotel.co.uk/

Thursday, Day 2: Thursday is Celebrity Day at SXSW, and before the sun sets over Town Lake, the convention center hosts Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in a keynote interview, reconstituted Manchester Mozzer Morrissey, a twinkling and practical k.d. lang, Eminence Grise Kris Kristofferson, and a few other notables along the way. They're all worthy and fascinating, and each is worth an article of his or her own. At the same time their details and moments aren't entirely relevant - in a larger sense, the fact of Morrissey is more important than what Morrissey might actually be here to say today. In an even larger sense still - Morrissey? Isn't this supposed to be 2006?

In the era of geriatric Rolling Stones and the flinching morning-after irony of lines like "Hope I die before I get old" and "Die young, stay pretty," it's commonplace to note that rock and roll got old somewhere along the way. Business-session audiences at the conference skew older, but come night in the venues the popular crowds, in a word, don't. Considering that neither group has much idea what the other is up to, it's a funny state of affairs. Watching the venerable soft parade of speakers from this vantage at the 20th anniversary of SXSW - I'm on my ninth year at the conference - I feel like I'm sitting courtside by the net. Each volley comes from one generation or the other, and everyone's best attempts at communication just involve smacking the ball back where it came from.

If there's one thing to take from today, it's a lesson in grace. Whatever the excesses of their early careers, or the twists and turns of their middle ones, the artists here in their maturity are firm in their gifts, secure in their talents, and dedicated to the craft of their art. Time is a self-correcting process, of course - Mrs. Kevin Federline won't be appearing as a SXSW speaker any time soon - but it's hard to look at the careers and gifts of these artists without doing a few unfavorable comparisons to the charting bands of recent times. Hey, I know. I'm just sayin'.

Neil Young

Neil Young's advice to the aspiring: "Be true to yourself. Don't concern yourself with your peers." If you try too hard to trap and waylay a song, he says, "you're gonna lose." And when a song is done, it's done. Don't tweak it to death. He speaks of songs as fickle, timid houseguests - "You trick them into coming by making a nice place for them" - and urges artists to live the lives of artists, freeing themselves from commitments and ties. It's easier said than done.

Austin By Night: Midway through the day I slip out for a breath of fresh music at the Wildflower Records day party at Maggie Mae's. I'm there long enough for a few numbers by Amy Speace (New York), one of the recent flagship Wildflower signings. Amy's luxurious voice is a honeyed match for her honest writing - I imagine her setting a nice room to put future songs at ease, a la Neil Young. It's not hard to picture. Backed by her star band The Tearjerks, Amy is smack in the Americana zone, at the junction of pop and rock, alt.country and folk, torch and tinderbox. It's a music for all seasons.

Eighteen floors up is plenty high for Austin, and the stretch of city lights below is a pretty backdrop in the upstairs lounge at the Capitol Place hotel. I dig in for the count. Persephone's Bees (Oakland, CA) make a dark, tactile music, sleekly redolent of bands like Garbage but with a reckless, raunchy edge. Angelina Moysov fronts the Bees with an air of exotic Old-Country Tolstovian flavor - think Shirley Manson with a glaze of wanton, laugh-while-you-can Grace Slick salted in. "I haven't been this sweaty since I left Russia 13 years ago," she says after one rousing song. I'll drink to that. Their major label debut, Notes from the Underworld, is out presently on Columbia Records.

Magnet (Bergen, Norway) lays down layers of solo live looping sound on electric guitar, banjo, and lap steel, painting moody shifting settings for his careful songs. He starts his show simply, without much in the way of tech. "I'm Magnet," he says, "and you are the audience, and I think this is going to be just fine." Half an hour later the room throbs with rough noise, as of great beasts crunching past on hard soil. Denmark's Tina Dico follows with a chameleon set - she's trim and model-pretty with a confident air, easy to like and hard to penetrate. When her songs take a turn for the deep, the change is unexpected. Her poise falters artfully, her face is suddenly bare, the easy shield of beauty is as much a lock as it once seemed a key. It's a fine and canny performance, though whether it's art imitating life or the other way around is anyone's guess.

I've been thinking about age and generations all evening, so I smile when The Dresden Dolls (Boston), toward the end of their arty hit "Coin Operated Boy," flawlessly simulate a skip in the music, as if they were a stuck phonograph record repeating, repeating, repeating. The crowd - the very college-age crowd - goes wild. Have these people ever owned a record player, I wonder? Does this have any relevant meaning to them, or is it an artefact, a cultural echo stuck in the national mind? The Dolls' usual pop-Brechtian Kabarett styling is toned down tonight. They've strayed perilously close to precious in the past, so I'm pleased to see them pull a peg or two from column Art and move it to column Booty.

Call the computer a radio, and "Hey Now Now" by The Cloud Room (Brooklyn) went into heavy rotation on my desktop last year. Tonight is my first time seeing the band live. They've got that fashionable weedy thin hipster look, and the chops to follow it up - the single is an astonishing song, and they have a sneaky set full of other pop confections that may not be as sweet, but swallow easily enough. Note to self: it's silly to go all the way to Austin to see bands from home, but sometimes the candy tastes better abroad.

The Cloud Room - www.thecloudroom.com

Tina Dico - www.tinadico.com

The Dresden Dolls - www.dresdendolls.com

Magnet - www.homeofmagnet.com

Persephone's Bees - www.persephonesbees.com

Amy Speace - www.amyspeace.com

Friday, Day 3: It's hard to imagine two more different women than the star speakers of today's day session: Chrissie Hynde has the bigger crowd, and Judy Collins the more expansive soul. There's no comparing the two, of course - Hynde is the prototypical rock Bad Girl and Collins the free-spirit songbird, and where one grew up in the early Boho of downtown New York the other is, well, from Akron. One probably thought that love could save us all, and the other knew it couldn't.

Judy Collins is properly paired with Pete Fornatale, a longtime radio DJ in New York City and currently host of the Mixed Bag Radio show. Their conversation is like a directed catching-up session between friends who've been on different paths in recent years. Judy is forthcoming about her prima ballerina role in the formative years of the Greenwich Village folk scene - she discovered Leonard Cohen when he'd completed just two songs, and was an early adopter of Joni Mitchell's music; she's famously the Judy of the Stephen Stills classic "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." She reflects lightly on 24 label-years with Elektra, which is a mighty track record, and looks ahead with her own new label, Wildflower Records. In the course of their talk Collins sings a few lines here and there, which is a rarity, oddly enough, at music conferences. By the time she leads the auditorium in a verse of "Amazing Grace" the room is rapt, inspired, and warmed by the gentle radiance of a life lived in music.

About face: Pretenders bandleader Chrissie Hynde is all spikes and bony edges, which is no real surprise. She's barely on stage a heartbeat when she declines to sit in the regulation SXSW suede chair, on animal-products grounds, and from there on out she's got her guns blazing all the way down. Rock journalist Bill Flanagan tries to moderate, but moderating Chrissie Hynde is a little like asking the fire nicely to stay away from all that dry crackly tinder. She's a woman who does not brook compromise, and frankly it's more fun that way.

Early on she plays more cards than she may mean to, noting that in her day you didn't start a band to join trends, you started a band to buck them (subtext: if you didn't have the band you might not have any friends at all). It's a hole card often missed when people look back on the rise of punk, and it illuminates much of the talk that follows. In today's play-along business of monetized streams and social lube, punk is a packaged lifestyle product and there aren't a lot of real rebels left. Scratch that - there aren't a lot of real rebels who have talent to back it up. Hynde is obstreperous and often unpleasant, but she also runs deep. Oh, and for the record: she did not hit Carly Simon. Mostly.

Austin By Night: I have no idea why I get in line for Arctic Monkeys - there's no chance I'll get into La Zona Rosa for the biggest nobody's-heard-them-yet buzz-band at the conference, and it's no surprise when I don't. If the grapevine tells true, that's probably for the best. Apart from the Monkeys, this is still crunch night at venues all over town. Everyone who's coming in for SXSW is here by now, hardly anyone has left yet, and there are gruntling lines at just about every musical door. My mission: avoid them.

The Japanese contingent here is always garish and interesting, and tonight there is a showcase of traditional music on the east side of town. Keisho Ohno (Niigata), clad in ceremonial garb that makes me think a bit of Vulcan ambassadors (I am blissfully ignorant of Japanese sartorial culture), mixes shamisen music with regulation Western instruments, and comes up with a rich jazz-jam Jade Warrior fusion sound. His obvious glee at striking Western rock-god poses is infectious.

Umekichi

The shamisen, for those who don't ride the New York subways, is a three-stringed guitar-like operation played with a large pick that looks a bit like a putty knife. It also features in the performance of Umekichi (Tokyo), whose Edo-style work is far more foreign to Western ears and whose measured and paced performance is completely fascinating. I don't pretend to understand the lay of the land in her set, but Umekichi is entrancing in a pea-green kimono and florid obi, with a layered hairdo threaded with combs and hanging decorations, all set off by a modern hands-free headset microphone. She enters at a ritual pace, her zori shoes clacking on the floor. There is a choreography to removing them, and then she opens a silk parasol in a mincing, declarative dance. It's probably 10 minutes before she mounts her waist-high platform, kneels, picks up the electric shamisen, and begins to play. I gather we are watching the lingering art of the geisha. Whatever it is, it is detailed and spellbinding, attentive and strange. It's good to remember that music thrives outside the natty lines of mass commerce.

It's late, and time for a seat up front and a quality beer. That means the Elephant Room, where I'm told Norah Jones dropped by earlier to listen a bit and talk to friends (and, presumably, to have a quality beer). After a loud ramble through the nearby Red Bull House, complete with a skritchy appearance by the unstoppably trendy Lady Sovereign (London), who I'm sure is very nice if you get to know her, I make it over in time for the final evening showcase and a large glass of Kwak. Elana James and her Hot Hot Trio (Austin) are on; Elana is a winsome, lively performer blessed with a catchy smile, a businesslike guitarist, and a sizzling slapback player on the doghouse bass, and the hot hot three of them are doing just the kind of violin-a-billy cowtown swing thing that makes a Texas pint of Belgian beer feel like home.

Arctic Monkeys - www.arcticmonkeys.com

Elana James and her Hot Hot Trio - www.elanajames.com

Lady Sovereign - www.ladysovereign.com

Keisho Ohno - www.keisho.info

Umekichi - http://www.satoh-k.co.jp/ume/

Saturday, Day 4: Who knows where the time goes? Every year SXSW is over almost before it begins, leaving no sign of passing apart from the soft edges where my shoes have worn down and the - hey look, my pants have shrunk. Again. I hate when that happens.

Spatters of rain leave the streets quiet and empty. On my way to the Press Room I pass a file of six Segway riders, tootling down the deserted pavement in their crash helmets. One of the downsides to wall-to-wall day parties is a loss of center: some of the best business (and all of the best catering) happens off-site, and the draw out into Austin's weather, especially for those of us with winter back home, is hard to resist. Apart from the celebrity worship sessions, attendance this year feels even more attenuated than usual, with critical mass drawn off to day-show venues and events all over the city. This town, as the sages once said, is coming like a ghost town - at least on Saturday morning in the convention center.

Also possible: perhaps everyone was out til 5:00 in the morning and they are currently in bed, moaning. It's a solid working theory.

When I first came to SXSW, it was the splashy mid-stride of the dotcom ka-boom, and every zealous prospector on the young World Wide Web was sharking up domain names and turning virtual real estate into some kind of new music portal - for only $25.99 a year! And so forth. We had content, and mainstream business wanted to barter for it. Then the Napster days crashed in, and traditional entertainment venues belatedly realized that something had to be done about those pesky Internets. We had property, and mainstream business wanted to control it.

Now, with p2p on the wane and the sharecropper music model easing back into place, we've got hopes and dreams, and the starmaker machinery couldn't care less, so long as we're willing to mortgage them. Business is back to usual, and it doesn't seem inclined to too much scrutiny. There is this for comfort, though: at the Blogs Gone Wild panel, which gathers a few feisty and seminal mp3 blogging pioneers together for a fits-and-starts discussion, there's some confusion in the audience about what one of these here blog things might be good for. In some ways at least, the more things change, the longer it stays 1998.

KT Tunstall (London/Scotland) is everyone's dream girl archetype - at last year's SXSW she was invisible, an unknown lone performer in a sea of lone performers. Now, a cool million UK album unit sales later, she's proof positive that there's still some mojo left in this crazy world. She isn't wacky, or topless, or an heiress, or a scandal. She's 30, not 21. She's just - get this - talented. It's a crazy idea, but it just might work.

Last night the lines for her Blender Bar showcase were so long and ragged it looked like a riot was brewing outside. I cadge an invite to see her at the Launch day-party from a friend, and we settle in for lunch and tunes. In her recordings, KT has a husky and intimate voice, a peppered mix of Shivaree and Professor and Maryann. The warehouse venue is too boomy to let her vibrant songs connect in a visceral way - it's loud, but not clear - but what comes across with clarity is her utter dedication to all the moments of her show.

Austin By Night: Word is that Lovejoys is closing, except for the word that Lovejoys is not closing. It's a conundrum. In the meantime, Lovejoys is still the best bar in Austin if you're a certain kind of person, namely me, and for the half hour or so that Exit Clov (Washington, DC) plays an unofficial showcase there, they're the best band in town. A woven five-piece led by identical twins Susan and Emily Hsu on vox, violins, keys, and guitar, Exit Clov is delightful, packing an omnivore's mash of influences under their shimmering harmonic finish. I hear scraps of Tegan and Sara, of Haircut 100, of the Go-Gos, of Renaissance. There are even snippets that could be out-takes from Jesus Christ Superstar. Next up is The Slip (Boston), and they launch their set with toy instruments played through guitar pickups and a rhythm groove thumbed on a tin can with rubber bands stretched around the ends. This is SXSW as I love it best - a little weird, and sounding great.

The outdoor stage at Habana Calle 6 is too small for Dressy Bessy (Denver), an outfit known for sweet tunes and ransacking volume, but the inconvenience turns handy - my ears survive the show in good perky fettle, and the hint of sugar helps the medicine go down. Glum fans cluster outside the at-capacity venue, but at least they can hear the music. Further west along 6th Street a grave guy hands over a flyer with such heart and aplomb that I start to feel guilty on line at the Best Wurst sausage place (where nitrates are your friends). I turn back to catch half a set by Humbert (Hialeah, FL) after all. The show is part madcap - and in fact singer Firny sports a mad cap, which looks like it was on a nun not long ago - and part soulful, an endearing and healthy combination.

It's a close thing, but French of Magneta Lane (Toronto) turns out to be the Sexiest Bass Player of SXSW 2006. I know you needed to know that. The band's publicity dwells on contrasts - angels and devils, the sublime, the profane, opposites attract, iron fist, velvet glove. At the end of the day, it's just captivating to be inside the perimeter when they detonate. Call their music indie rock, and place it somewhere between the schoolyard and the garage. As the air calms after their set I ease over to French, who is putting away her pedals.

Me: You know, it's the ballet slippers that really make your outfit.
French nods and smiles kindly, gracefully accepting praise.

Me: (encouraged) It's sort of whimsical - you know, you have the dress-down top and the jeans - from the audience you almost don't see the ballet shoes until later, and it changes the vibe, changes the whole perception of you. It's clever. Well done.

French nods again, looking a bit cloudy now. Oops, perhaps I'm being a creep.

Me: Anyway, I just wanted to say that ­

French: I can't hear a word you're saying. Sorry. Loud up here.

The faithful are at Stubbs seeing The Pretenders, so the rest of downtown is a little easier to deal with tonight. I have an ambitious plan to spackle the hour with a last burst of energy - if I time it right I may squeeze in four, five, who knows, maybe 50 bands, so long as I don't bother to listen to them. What can I say. The last day of SXSW can be hard on a sleepy brain; the road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Happily the plan crashes in flames as soon as The Twenty Twos (NYC) dive headlong into their soundcheck - this band is so good that I'm not leaving until they're finished. Even then I may have to stick around to see if they change their minds.

The Twenty Twos are Jenny Christmas, Terrah Schroll, Hannah Moorhead, and drummer Jonny Cragg (ex of Spacehog). Trim, trendy, sharp-eyed and sharp-edged, they are pretty much what would walk off the page if you sketched three dimensions of Rockrgrl, applied personality and magic powder, and wished really really hard. Their music is lanky and brimming with urban swagger, and it keeps its own counsel. The lead instruments don't so much trade off as they accommodate one another; the sound isn't so much noised as it is spiked.

There's a lot to like here, and uniquely among all the artists I've watched this week the Twenty Twos have this rare quality - by the time their set is done, they've convinced me that they are just the best band I've ever seen. This is not strictly true, if you want to get technical about it. But for tonight, it serves. Tonight, I'm a believer. Tonight, SXSW ends right here, on a high point.

Dressy Bessy - www.dressybessy.com

Exit Clov - www.exitclov.com

Humbert - www.humbert.net

Magneta Lane - www.paperbagrecords.com/magnetalane

The Slip - www.theslip.com

KT Tunstall - www.kttunstall.com

The Twenty Twos - www.thetwentytwos.com

SXSW - http://2006.sxsw.com/music

Picture Roundup - http://www.flickr.com/photos/linus/sets/72057594088224173/

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Essence Music Festival
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Fab Four
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Face Of America: Hawai'i
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Family Values Tour: Korn & Deftones
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Father's Day Comedy Riot
Fatlip
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Fm99 Lunatic Luau
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Frank Sinatra Jr.
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Franklins Family Christmas Concert
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Garrison Keillor - A Prairie Home Companion
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Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers & Oak Ridge Boys
Kenny Rogers & The Oak Ridge Boys
Kenny Rogers: Oak Ridge Boys
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Keri Noble
Kevin James
Keyshia Cole
Kid Rock
Kihncert on the Green: Greg Kihn Band & More
Kim Richey
Kim Waters Featuring Jeff Kashaw And Steve Cole
Kindred
Kindred The Family Soul
King
Kings Fest 2006: Casting Crowns
Kings Fest 2006: Newsboys
Kings Fest 2006: Third Day
Kingston Trio
Kirk Franklin
Kirk Whalum
Kiss 106.1 B.f.d. 2006
Kiss Army
Kiss Army: Tribute To Kiss
KMFDM
KMPS Class Of 2006
Kmtts 1st Annual Mountain Music Fest
Koko Taylor
Konono No. 1
Kool & The Gang
Kool Koncert 2006: Three Dog Night
Kottonmouth Kings
Kpig Songwriter's Festival
Kris Kristofferson
Kristin Chenoweth
Kumbia Kings
Kwjz Smooth Jazz Festival
Kzla Class Of 2006 : Mid-term Report
La Jazz Festival With Chaka Khan
La Salsa Festival
La Traviata
Labor Day Spectacular
Lagwagon
Lalah Hathaway
Lamb Of God
Lang Lang
Larry Carlton & Chuck Mangione
Larry Carlton & Dave Mason
Larry Carlton Blues Project
Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers
Larry The Cable Guy
Late Night Comedy
Latin Dance Night: Las dos Alas
Laugh-A-Palooza
Laura Cortese
Leahy
Leann Rimes
Leanne Rimes
Led Zepagain
Lee Ann Womack
Legacy
Legendary Pink Dots
Legendary Shach Shakers
Legends In Concert
Legends Of Motown
Leon Fleisher Piano Recital
Leon Russell
Leroy Smokes
Les Claypool
Lewis Black
Lez Zeppelin
Liars
Lifehouse
Lifehouse & Collective Soul
Lifetime
Lil Bow Wow
Lil' Ed
Linda Eder
Linda Eder & Michael Feinstein
Linda Ronstadt
Liquid Soul
Little Big Town
Little Feat
Little Richard
Little River Band
Living End
Livingston Taylor
Lizz Winstead
Ll Cool J
Locobazooka
Lollapalooza [3 Day Pass]
Lonestar
Lorca, Luna and Luciana
Loretta Lynn
Los Amigos Invisibles
Los Angeles Philharmonic: "Amadeus" Live
Los Angeles Philharmonic: "Comedy Tonight" Slatkin, Smothers Brothers
Los Angeles Philharmonic: A Celtic Celebration with Natalie MacMaster
Los Angeles Philharmonic: American Film Classics
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Beethoven's Fifth
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Beethoven's Ninth
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Carmina Burana
Los Angeles Philharmonic: French Delights
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Hahn Plays Mendelssohn
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Hubbard Street Dance
Los Angeles Philharmonic: John Mauceri, Puccini's "Tosca"
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Mahler's First
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Romeo and Juliet
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Shostakovich Fifth
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Slatkin Conducts Dvorák
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Summer Serenades
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Tchaikovsky Spectacular
Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Assad Brothers
Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Four Seasons "con salsa"
Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Planets
Los Angeles Philharmonic: Thibaudet Plays Liszt
Los Enanitos Verdes
Los Lobos
Los Lobos: Reel Blues Fest
Los Lonely Boys
Los Premios De La Radio
Los Tigres Del Norte
Lost Nation
Love, Body & Soul Tour W/ Ginuwine & Raheem De Vaughn
Luciano Pavarotti
Lucky Boys Confusion
Lucy Kaplansky
Luis Fonsi
Luke Sayers
Lye CD Release
Lyle Lovett
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd & 3 Doors Down
Lyrics Born
Maceo Parker
Machine
Macy Gray
Macys Music Festival Cincinnati: Earth Wind & Fire, Patti Labelle, & Charlie Wilson
Madeleine Peyroux
Madonna
Madonnathon - Madonna Birthday Tribute
Mae
Magnolia Electric Co.
Mahler's Fourth Symphony
Maia Sharp
Maldita Vecindad
Mallman & Klosterman
Mama's Pride
Manhattan Transfer
Marc Anthony
Marc Anthony & Marco Antonio Solis
Marc Broussard
Marc Cohn
Marcia Ball
Marcus Miller Band & Roy Hargove's RH Factor
Margaret Cho
Maria Schneider Orchestra
Mariachi USA Festival
Mariachi Vargas
Mariah Carey
Marianne Faithful
Marisa Monte
Maritime
Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
Marshall Tucker Band & Atlanta Rhythm Section
Martina Mcbride
Martina Mcbride & Leann Rimes
Martina Mcbride & the Warren Brothers
Marty Caset
Marty Stuart
Martyn Joseph
Marvin Dixon All-Stars
Mary J. Blige
Mason Jennings
Massive Attack
Matisyahu
Matt Costa
Matt Mason, Nicole Jamrose, Casey Rivers & More
Matthew Herbert
Maze
Maze & Frankie Beverly
MAZE featuring Frankie Beverly
Mckinley Place
Meat Loaf
Medeski, Martin & Wood & Soulive
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge Live
Memories Of Elvis
Mercy Me & Audio Adrenaline
Mercyme
Merle Haggard
Mewithoutyou
Michael Bolton
Michael Buble
Michael Crawford
Michael Feinstein
Michael Feinstein & Linda Eder
Michael Feinstein And Linda Eder
Michael Franks
Michael Franks, Willie, & Lobo
Michael McDonald
Michael Schenker Group
Michael W Smith
Michigan Music Fest 2006
Mike Andrews
Mike Doughty
Millish
Mindless Self Indulgence
Mindless Self-indulgence
Ministry
Ministry & Revco
Ministry & Revolting Cocks
Ministry And The Revolting Cocks
Miranda Lambert
Mission Of Burma
Missoula - The Jungle Book
Mobfest
Modest Mouse
Moe
Moein
Mofro
Molly Hatchet
Molotov
Momo's Dance Party
Mo'nique
Montgomery Gentry
Montgomery Gentry & Trace Adkins
Moody Blues
Moonspell
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Morning Wood
Morningwood
Mose Allison
Mostly Mozart
Motels & Berlin
Motown Saturday Night
Mountain
Mozart 250th Birthday Bash
Mozart and More
Mozart and Schumann
Mozart Piano Concertos
Mr. Lif
Mstrkrft & Juan Maclean
Mudhoney
Murder By Death
Murder Junkies
Muse
Mushroomhead
Mustard Plug
Mustard's Retreat
Mxpx
Mxpx & Reel Big Fish
Mystic Syntax
Na Leo
Nanci Griffith
Nashville Star
Nashville Star Tour
Nathan & Zydeco Cha-cha
Nathan Brooks
National Symphony Orchestra: Carmina And The Ring
National Symphony Orchestra: Itzhak Perlman: Happy Birthday Mozart
National Symphony Orchestra: Ode To Beethoven
National Symphony Orchestra: Play! A Video Game Symphony
National Symphony Orchestra: Renee Fleming
National Symphony Orchestra: Romeo Et Juliette
National Symphony Orchestra: Some Enchanged Evening
National Symphony Orchestra: The Wizard Of Oz
National Symphony Orchestra: To Boldly Go...
Natives Of The New Dawn
Neal Mccoy
Nebula
Needtobreathe
Neil Sedaka
Neko Case
Nekromantix
Neville Brothers
Neville Brothers and Dr John
New Edition
New England Symphonic Ensemble
New Era
New Faces Of Comedy
New Jack Reunion Tour
New Riders Of The Purple Sage
New York Philharmonic: Audra Mcdonald & Lang Lang
Newsboys
Nick Cannon
Nickel Creek
Nickelback
Night Of Champions
Nils Lofgren
Nina Hagen
Nine Inch Nails
Noche Flamenca
Nomo
Norm Macdonald
Norman Brown
Nouvelle Vague
O.A.R.
O.a.r. & Jack's Mannequin
October Fall
Of Montreal
Office
O'Jays
Old Blind Dogs
Old School Funk Fest
Oleta Adams & Arturo Sandoval
Oliver
Olivia Newton-john
One Under
Opening Night Gala: Andre Watts, Carlos Santana
Opie & Anthony Traveling Virus
Orgin
Original Superstars Of Jazz Fusion
Orzic Tentacles
Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra
Over The Rhine And Hem
Ozomatli
Ozric Tentacles
Ozzfest
Pacific Symphony Orchestra
Pacific Symphony Orchestra: Mozart's Birthday Bash
Pacific Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky's 1812
Pacific Symphony Orchestra: The British Are Coming
Pacific Symphony Orchestra: The Planets
Paleface
Panic At The Disco
Panic! At The Disco
Parrots Of The Caribbean
Particle
Pat Benatar
Pat Benatar & Neil Geraldo
Pat Green
Pat Metheny and Gary Burton Quartet
Patchwork & Langus
Patti Labelle
Patty Griffin
Paul Anka
Paul Anka & Don Rickles
Paul Geremia
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Simon
Paul Thorn
Pavlo
Peabo Bryson
Peaches
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam & Robert Pollard
Pearl Jam & Sonic Youth
Pearl Jam With Sonic Youth
Pepe Aguilar
Perfect Red
Perpetual Groove
Pete Yorn
Peter Frampton
Peter Nero & The Philly Pops
Peter, Paul & Mary
Phil Lesh
Phil Lesh & Friends
Phil Vassar
Phix
Phunk Junkeez
Pictures at an Exhibition
Pieces Of A Dream
Pig
Pilate
Pink
Pink Floyd Laser Show
Pink Floyd Laser Show Feat Several Species
Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular
Pink Martini
Pino & Bonzer
Pitchfork Music Festival
Plain White T's
Plastic Constellations
Playa Lounge Crew
Playboy Jazz Festival
Playboy's Hollywood Comedy Tour
Plumb
PM Dawn
Pnuma Trio
Poco
Poco & Pure Prairie League
Poco Firefall
Pointer Sisters
Poison
Polo Polo
Popa Chubby
Powerhouse
Powerman 5000
Prairie Home Companion
Praise Fest 2006: Michael W. Smith , Third Day & Others
Praise Fest 2006: Steven Curtis Chapman, David Crowder Band & Others
Pre-Independence Day Bash
Premios Juventud 2006
Premium
Preservation Hall Jazz Band 45th Anniversary New Orleans Revue
Pretenders
Progpower Usa VII - 2 Day Pass
Psalm One Record Release
Psychedelic Furs
Puffy Amiyumi
Queensryche
Quiet Riot
Raconteurs
Radio 4
Radio Birdman
Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Radio Disney's Birthday Concert
Radio Disneys Totally Ten Birthday Concert
Radio K's Underage Battle
Radiohead
Railroad Earth
Rain - The Beatles Experience
Rain: the Beatles Experience
Rainbow Of Fathers Concert
Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys
Ralph's World
Rancid
Randy Bachman & Burton Cummings
Randy Newman
Randy Travis
Rascal Flatts
Rascal Flatts & Gary Allan
Rasputina
Raul Malo
Raven
Raven Symone
Ravinia Birthday Celebration
Ray Davies
Ray Lamontagne And Guster
Ray Price
Ray Romano
RBD
Reckless Kelly
Red Elvises
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Stick Ramblers
Red, White & Boom 11
Red, White & Hob
Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish & Mxpx
Reel Big Fish, Mxpx
Reggae On The River
Reggae Sunslash
Reggae Sunsplash
Rehab
Rendezvous All Stars & Whalum, Butler, Tisdale & Simpson
Rentals
Reo Speedwagon
Reverend Horton Heat
Reverend Horton Heat W/horrorpops, Throw Rag
Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
Ricardo Arjona
Richard Jeni
Richard Nader's Summer Doowop Reunion XVII
Richie Havens
Rick Springfield
Rick Springfield, Eddie Money & Loverboy
Rick Wakeman
Rickey Smiley
Ricky Skaggs
Riders In The Sky
Right Between The Ears
Rihanna
Rihanna with Jeannie Ortega
Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band
Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band
Rippingtons & David Benoit
Rita Coolidge
Rita Rudner
River Riot: 311, Dashboard Confessional & Hawthorne Heights
Riviera Comedy Club
Rob Bell
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas & Jewel
Rob Thomas : Jewel
Rob Thomas, Jewel & Toby Lightman
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie & Anthrax
Rob Zombie & Godsmack
Robbie Fulks
Robbie Williams
Robert Cray & Buddy Guy
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Klein
Robert Plant
Roberta Flack
Robin Horlock Band
Robin Trower
Rock N' Roll Legends
Rock The Bells: Wu-tang Clan, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Redman & De La Soul
Rockapella
Rocket From The Tombs
Rod Piazza
Rodney Carrington
Roger Waters
Romantic Impressions
Ron White
Ronan Tynan & John Mcdermott
Ronnie Mcdowell
Roots Rock Reggae
Roots Rock Reggae Fest.
Rory Block
Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash With Jerry Douglas
Roy Ayers
Roy Clark
Ruben Studdard
Rufus Wainwright
Rush: Classic Albums Live
Russell Peters
Rusted Root
Rx Bandits
Ryan Cabrera
Saffire The Uppity Blues Woman
Saliva
Salute To Vienna : New Year Celebration
Sam Bush
Sam Roberts
Sam Roberts Band, Broken Social Scene & The Stills
Samite
Sammy Hagar
Sammy Hagar & Michael Anthony
Sammy Hagar & The Wabos
Sammy Hagar & The Wabos Livin' It Up 2006
Sammy Kershaw
San Francisco Symphony
Santa Fe Opera - Cinderella Massenet
Santa Fe Opera - Salome Strauss
Santa Fe Opera - The Magic Flute Mozart
Santa Fe Opera - The Tempest American Premier
Santana
Sara Evans
Sarah Bettens
Sarah Chang
Saratoga Horse Racing: Diana & Jim Dandy
Saucy Jack
Saw Doctors
Sawyer Brown
Scene Anniversary Party
School Of Rock Allstars
School's Out Tour: Trey Songz, Ray J, & T-pain
Schulhoff Showcase
Schumann Showcase
Scorpions
Seal
Seattle Symphonhy - Gerard Schwarz - Conductor - Julia Fischer
Seether
Seether & Shinedown
Seether: Crossfade
Self Infliction
Sesame Street Live!
Sesame Street Live: Super Grover! Ready For Action
Seu Jorge
Sexy Soul Tour: Johnny Gill, Bell Biv Devoe & SWV
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Shadows Fall
Shaggy
Shakira
Shatterfest
Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin & Ben Taylor
Shawn Colvin & Bruce Cockburn
Shawn Mullins
She Wants Revenge
Shedaisy
Shemekia Copeland, Lil' Ed, & The Blues Imperials
Sheryl Crow
Shinedown
Shinedown & Crossfade
Shooter Jennings
Sides Of Five
Silver Mt. Zion
Sin Bandera
Singing Sensation Debut
Sister Hazel
Six Feet Under
Skid Row
Skid Row-slaughter
Slaid Cleaves
Slayer
Slightly Stoopid
Slippery When Wet
Slumber Party
Smash Mouth
Smashmouth
Smokey Robinson
Smooth Jazz 104.3 Summer Fest 2006
Smooth Jazz 105.9 Summer Concert
Smooth Jazz Chris Botti
Smooth Jazz Christmas
Smooth Jazz Fest 2006
Smush
Snow Patrol
Social Distortion
Soilwork
Soilwork & Darkest Hour
Soilwork, Darkest Hour & Mnemic
Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke With Bobby Womack
Something Ordinary
Son Volt
Sonic Youth
Sonny Landreth
Sophie B. Hawkins
Soul Asylum
Soul2Soul: Tim Mcgraw & Faith Hill
Sound Tribe Sector 9 & Jurrasic 5
Sounds Of the Underground
Southside Johnnny
Southside Johnny & Fabulous Thunderbirds
Southside Johnny And The Ashbury Jukes
Sponge
Spyro Gyra
Stadium Of Fire: Lee Ann Womack
Staind
Stanley Clarke & George Duke Project
Starland Summer Campout
Stash
State Of Mind
Static X
Stayin' Alive
Steel Pulse
Steely Dan
Steely Dan & Michael McDonald
Stephanie Mills & Will Downing
Steppin in It
Steve Connolly
Steve Forbert
Steve Harvey
Steve Holy
Steve James
Steve Miller Band
Steve Oliver
Steve Riley
Steve Tyrell
Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Seagal
Steven Seagal Blues Band
Steven Wright
Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers & The Tossers
Stone Cold Cowboys
Story Of The Year & Hawthorne Heights
Strapping Young Lad
Stratovarious
Strawberry Fields - A Tribute To The Beatles
Strawbs Acoustic Trio
Strays Don't Sleep
Stray's Don't Sleep
Strhess Tour Featuring Shadows Fall
String Cheese Incident
String Cheese Incident & Ratdog
Stuck Mojo
Styx
Styx & Foreigner
Suffrajet
Sugar Ray
Sugarland
Summer Of Ska Tour
Summer Of Ska Tour: Voodoo Glow Skulls & Catch 22
Summerfest
Sun Domingo
Sunday In The Country
Sunday in the Park with Mozart
Sunday Night Local
Sunday Night Local Music Showcase
Sunday Night Local Show Finals
Sunkwa
Super Diamond
Susan Tedeschi
Susana Baca
Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Westenhoefer
Suzy Bogguss
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Switchfoot
System Of A Down
T.I.
Tab Benoit
Taj Mahal
Take 6
Taking Back Sunday
Taking Back Sunday & Angels & Airwaves
Tallis Scholars
Tamar Featuring Prince
Tanya Tucker
Tarantula Ad
Tarbox Ramblers
Taylor Dayne
T-bone Burnett
Tchaikovsky Spectacular
Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony
Tech N9ne
Ted Leo
Ted Nugent
Teddy Geiger
Teddy Geiger & Dirtie Blonde
Teena Marie
Tempestuous Beethoven
Tequila Sunrise
Tequila Sunrise: A Tribute To The Eagles
Terri Clark
Terri Clark & Ryan Shupe
Tesla
The 5 Browns
The 5th Dimention
The Accident Experiment
The Adolescents
The All American Rejects
The All-american Rejects
The Alternate Routes
The Aquabats
The Architects
The Assembly
The Avett Brothers
The B52s
The B-52's
The Bacon Brothers
The Bad Plus & Gold Sounds
The Bangles
The Battle For Kamelot And Epika
The Bills
The Blasters & Rumble King
The Bob Marley Roots Rock Reggae Tour
The Bon Mots
The Boredoms
The Broadway Musicals Of 1978
The Bronx
The Business
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Gala Benefit Evening
The Clark/Duke Project
The Clarke/Duke Project: Stanley Clarke & George Duke
The Clarks
The Click Five
The Constantines
The Dickies
The Dollars
The Editors
The Effigies
The Fiery Furnaces
The Format
The Four Tops
The Four Tops & Temptations
The Fray
The Futureheads
The Germs
The Go! Team
The Go-Go's
The Goodyear Pimps
The Gris Gris
The Guess Who
The Heavenly States
The Hidden Cameras
The Hold Steady
The Hooters
The Iguanas
The Independence Day Spectacular
The Irish Tenors
The James Gang
The Knack, Missing Persons, & Flock of Seagull
The Last Three Beethoven Sonatas
The Liars
The Lost Trailers
The Machine
The Mega 80's
The Menus
The Meters
The Most Authentic Pink Floyd Tribute Show
The Music Of Led Zeppelin
The Music Of Purple Rain
The Nashville Star Tour
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
The Oak Ridge Boys
The One, Two, Threes of Mozart
The Orphan
The Outline
The Plastic Constellations & Tapes 'N Tapes
The Platters, Coasters, & Drifters
The Pogues
The Polyjesters
The Pretenders
The Raconteurs
The Radiators
The Rakes
The Rendezvous Allstars
The Rentals
The Rippingtons
The Romantic World of Robert Schumann
The Roots
The Samples
The Skeeters
The Slackers Comedy Tour
The Smithereens
The Spares
The Steepwater Band
The Stills
The Stolen Winnebagos
The Strawbs
The Streets
The String Cheese Incident
The Subdudes
The Supermen
The Sword
The Taste
The Temptations
The Temptations & The Four Tops
The Tierney Sutton Band
The Tragically Hip
The Velvematics
The Veronicas
The Violent Femmes
The Wailers
The Walkmen
The Whigs
The Women Of Windham Hill
The Wreckers
The Zucchini Brothers-Kraft Kids Concert
Thievery Corporation
Third Day
Thousand Foot Krutch
Three Dog Night
Three Generations: Brubeck, Benoit, & Yuma Sung
Thrice
Thunderbirds Are Now!
Tigres Del Norte
Tilly & the Wall
Tilly And The Wall
Tim Conway & Harvey Korman
Tim Conway & Harvey Korman (late)
Tim Easton
Tim Reynolds
Tinsley Ellis
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Toasters
Toby Keith
Toby Keith & Joe Nichols
Toby Mac
Todd Snider
Tokyo Rose
Tokyo String Quartet
Toledo
Tom Jones
Tom Jones & Etta James
Tom Jones & Tower Of Power
Tom Jones, Pete Escovedo
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers & Allman Brothers
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers & Pearl Jam
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers & Stevie Nicks
Tommy James & Shonde
Tommy James &The Shondells
Tommy Keene
Toni Braxton
Tony Bennett
Tony Danza
Tony Danza & Don Rickles
Too Short
Totally '80s: Hollywood Bowl - The Human League, ABC
Toto
Tower Of Power
Trace Adkins
Trace Adkins & Chris Cagle
Trace Adkins & Josh Turner
Trace Bundy
Tracy Lawrence
Tracy Morgan
Train
Trainwreck
Trapt
Trapt & Shinedown
Travis Tritt
Treaty Of Paris
Trent Willmon
Trey Anastasio
Trey Anastasio & Mike Gordon And The Duo
Trey McIntyre
Tribute To Benny Goodman
Tribute To Frank, Sammy, Joey & Dean
Tribute To Motown
Triple Threat Of Country
Triple Threat Tour: Blackhawk, Little Texas & Restless Heart
Trippin Billies
Trisha Yearwood
Trisha Yearwood & Billy Currington
Tristan Prettyman
Twilight Singers
Twiztid
U2
Ub40
Umphreys Mcgee & Galactic
Van Dells
Van Hunt
Van Hunt & Nikka Costa
Van Morrison
Vans Warped Tour
Vans Warped Tour 2006
Vast
Velvet Revolver
Venom
VH1 Classics Presents: Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers
Vhi Classic Presents: An Evening With Queensryche
Vicente Fernandez
Vicki Lawrence & Mama
Victor Manuelle
Vienna Teng
Vikki Carr
Vince Neil
Vinx
Violent Femmes
Violin Virtuosity
Virginia Coalition
Viva Las Vegas
Vixen
Voodoo Music Experience: Red Hot Chili Peppers & Duran Duran
Vultures Are Lovebirds
Wailin Jenny's
Walter Trout
Waste
Wayne Brady
Wayne Hancock
Wayne Kramer
Wayne Newton
Wbab Presents The Music Of Led Zeppelin
Wcod Cape Cod Chowder Festival
We Are Scientists
We Fest 2006: Three Day Music Only Ticket
Weakerthans
Wednesday 13
Ween
Whatley Lorber
Which Ones Pink
White
Who Killed Marlyn
Whoopi Goldberg
Widespread Panic
Wiggles
Wilco
Wild Child
Wild Side
Will Downing
Will Hoge
Will Hoge & Rose Hill Drive
Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson & Family
Willy Nelson
Willy Porter Band
Windham Hill 30th Anniversary Concert
Wine & Blues
WKTU's Beatstock 2006
Woggles
Wolf Parade
Wolfmother
Wonderbread 5
Wonderous Stories & Roger Waters After Party
World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions
Wu Tang's Kila Army
Wynonna Judd
Wynton Marsalis
Xavier Rudd
Xiu Xiu
Yallapalooza
Yellowcard
Yellowcard & Matchbook Romance
Yellowman
Yo Yo Ma
Yolanda Adams
Yonder Mountain String Band
Young Dubliners
Yo-Yo Ma & The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Z104 Summer Bash
Z90.3 Sweet 16
Zappa Plays Zappa
Zebrahead
Zo's Summer Groove Comedy Show
Zoso
Zukerman Chamber Players

Top 100 Songs At Artistopia.com June 10, 2006

Top 100 Songs Chart at Artistopia - The Ultimate Music Artist Resource, by up and coming indie and unsigned artists. Listen in at Radio Artistopia or browse artist profiles at Indie Music Artists by Last Active, Music Genres, A - Z, Top Ranked, Most Viewed and Rank Movers.


1. Mr Imagination Claudia
2. Dance with my father again Claudia
3. Kiss from a rose Claudia
4. My Sweet Love Claudia
5. I'm Wishing On A Star Claudia
6. Silent Night Acappella Claudia
7. Fever Acappella Claudia
8. Gospel Medley Claudia
9. The truth is hurting me Bob Richard's
10. Rock A Bye Baby Claudia
11. Loving Claudia
12. Danza e ridanza Antonio Bruno & Bellitamburi
13. Ready For Love Debbie Rocks
14. Fever D&B Remix Claudia
15. Savior Jason Sweet
16. VIP Big Delph
17. so blue, i'm feeling red Bohannon
18. i sing the perfect stroke Antonio Bruno & Bellitamburi
19. Am I Robot? Robert Mansfield
20. Never Let Go Claudia

21. Walking Alone Jazz Claudia
22. Ain't No Sunshine Blues Debbie Rocks
23. New Beat Electronic Claudia
24. Libre de ti Gospel N.o Subject
25. Non dirmi mai Electronic Antonio Bruno & Bellitamburi
26. Sneak Preview Jazz Claudia
27. Where Will I Go Christian Jason Sweet
28. the legend of bohannon Pop & Rock Bohannon
29. 8 Mins of Death Hip Hop/Rap Missiles
30. Shy Girl Electronic Debbie Rocks
31. Feel It Pop & Rock Muhammad Abdul Jami
32. Friend or foe clip Gospel N.o Subject
33. But I Do Blues Allen Talbott
34. No matter , rain or shine Alternative N.o Subject
35. storia della terra mia Alternative Antonio Bruno & Bellitamburi
36. Running With Scissors Alternative Cindy Nelson
37. She's Opaque Alternative Frank Lordi
38. Unbreak My Arms Urban/R&B Flynt Marco
39. Stop The Battle Hip Hop/Rap Katrise
40. Did you ever really care Urban/R&B Claudia
41. alcohol Undetermined Bohannon
42. I can't find the words Country Bob Richard's
43. Chill Electronic Debbie Rocks
44. Behind Blue Eyes - Who Cover Pop & Rock Debbie Rocks
45. Understand your man Country Bob Richard's
46. Kiss an angel good morning Country Bob Richard's
47. Shootin' From the Hip Jazz Allen Talbott
48. Without You Pop & Rock Loz
49. Art of War Metal Losing Another Battle
50. VICTORY DANCE Gospel Yvonne Perkins
51. I Could Be There For You Alternative Cindy Nelson
52. Rawk Hip Hop/Rap CT Crew
53. Crackhead Blues Blues Allen Talbott
54. Mind Right Urban/R&B uBay
55. Lull Jazz Ben Bowen Project
56. Landslide Easy Listening Debbie Rocks
57. annie Undetermined Bohannon
58. Badia Urban/R&B K atrise
59. Absolution Metal Losing Another Battle
60. The rest just walk away Pop & Rock Bob Richard's
61. Thinking Of you Hip Hop/Rap Legitimate Generalz
62. true Alternative Bohannon
63. The Peacock Jazz Marco Lopomo
64. Worst of Days Urban/R&B Muhammad Abdul Jami
65. All I Need Pop & Rock Muhammad Abdul Jami
66. Hush Urban/R&B Julia
67. Fever remix by 'Jesse the mind... Hip Hop/Rap Claudia
68. Do Remember Hip Hop/Rap Big Delph
69. He's Still On My Mind Country Ernie Redquest
70. Crazy Baby Alternative Suite 9
71. Folsom prison blues Country Bob Richard's
72. Requiem Alternative Cindy Nelson
73. cheeze machine Alternative Bohannon
74. Hung Up Pop & Rock Muhammad Abdul Jami
75. Intimate Undetermined Julia
76. Street Life Hip Hop/Rap Vinny Rebel
77. Ions & Aeons Metal Blackwater Ash
78. Tired and Underestimated Alternative MiYaegie
79. Love Is The Key Country Chris Balatgek
80. India - VH1 Songwriting Contes... Electronic Debbie Rocks
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When Dollars And Cents Meet Heart And Soul

When Dollars And Cents Meet Heart And Soul

The Cost Of Dedication In The Music Industry

by Richard J. Atkins,

MusicDish Network Sponsor

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson

"Your Money or Your Loyalty"

The music industry, in decline and disgrace, like many others today, faces almost certain implosion if it continues on its path to self-destruction. Global music sales decline consecutively, year after year. Record labels point to illegal file sharing as a reason for falling revenue. Other possible factors for the deterioration include decreased disposable household income and a rise in video music and games sales. Simply put, the post-recession financial rewards that many businesses now reap aren't being realized in the music business. Therefore, the leaders in this industry must examine their driving corporate values.

The day-to-day operations of the business speak loudly of the problems within. Bands are signed and dropped in the twinkling of an eye. Artists are promised the moon and then shown to the dumpster. The whimsical winds of taste determine the flavor of the week without regard for greater potential in later days. Through it all, the question is raised, where is the sense of loyalty? What happened to all those campaign promises prior to election? In such a bleak environment, it is difficult or even impossible for an artist to create.

Rosanna Arquette's "All We Are Saying" provides a shocking exposé of the music scene. The film expresses the acrimony and disillusionment about the "business" of creating and producing art in today's society. Among the vast stable of artist input she presents, icons such as Joni Mitchell express a complete refusal to jump through the hoops held by the media giants. David Crosby mourns the loss of the numerous smaller record companies as a few big corporations that are responsible for today's entertainment are the replacement.

Devotion, faithfulness, dedication‹whatever the appellation, today's business and industry could use a shot of the magic elixir in its collective arm. Even canines stereotypically possess more of this focused quality than some of their human counterparts. In an age when dollars mean all, the mindset that incorporates values such as loyalty can find itself in the path of a corporate greed and profiteering tornado.

Since the latter half of the last century, a sense of obligation‹to anything‹has practically disappeared. Children are raised to believe, "I did it all by myself." The notion of acknowledging help and support is unknown to many. Today's generation finds itself in the self-centered "me" mentality, so foreign to any sense of loyalty punctuated with grat