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With the end of summer, we also sadly come to the end of another fun-filled season of “America’s Got Talent,” and we have some time to go until we get Ellen Degeneres on “American Idol .” Congratulations to ex-chicken catcher Kevin Skinner for winning the million dollar prize, and congrats to Barbara Padilla, Lawrence Beamen, Grandma Lee and everyone else who made it into the final 10. It was a season full of crap, full of new stars being born and full of surprises. In October, auditions star

Most people are absolutely repulsed by the idea of rap/rock hybrids but I think the biggest reason for that is because bands like Limp Bizkit don't really understand rap music or rock music all that well. Sutter Kain is a hip hop producer who has discovered his love for Metal and he has created a style of hardcore rap that uses his vast collection of metal music as a way of creating new music. Hip Hop was built on the art of sampling and Sutter Kain takes snares, bass drums, guitars and every

So this band is back up to doing dual-disc albums now, are they? In all fairness, I didn’t actually get the second disc in my promo copy, so I’ll just have to go with the first half. Now if you’re not familiar with Esoteric, they’ve gotten a degree of fame in the world of underground, and very extreme doom metal. Hmm, would that actually be fame though? It’s not exactly a huge selling audience their catering too, though the people who reside in the more extreme world of Neurosis, Isis, Cult of

Free, Professional Music Production: A Linux Introduction People who either dabble or work in computing enough are probably used to the idea that some operating systems are better than others as creative platforms; Mac OSX generally seems to be the preferred place for video editing, thanks to the likes of Final Cut Pro. They’ve also got the fantastic GarageBand program for audio production as part of their iLife suite, and with Windows, ProTools is often considered industry standard when

It would seem that washed up bands with little to no relevancy in today’s music market have totally lost their minds. First up is news that is seems Lars Ulrich, founder of the heavy metal band Metallica, has completely lost his mind. As I discussed in June of this year in a post entitled “Metallica Backpeddles Their Way To Relevancy“,it seems Lars has completely changed his stance on music piracy. While people are entitled to change their opinions on a subject, it just comes off a bit oddly