Listen to and sing along to The Last Fight by Velvet Revolver..

Time feels like I've been back in jail
Like when I was doing time in the can
Spend all night on a bended knee
Just to beg for something to believe
Left home with a pack of clothes without a family tree
Chorus:

This fight could be the last fight
No giving and no winn

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Many musicians who make music with a computer make there drum tracks using software and recorded samples of drums, but all to often they find that their drums just don’t seem to sound like a real drummer could be playing them. These are my tips for getting a drum track to sound more realistic and hopefully they will help some of you to create

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Penn undergrad Nikhil Dhingra is quite the latest find when it comes to young talented musicians. Nikhil has performed at many venues in Downtown Dallas and Philadelphia including Club Dada, The Door, Legacy Shops, World Cafe Live, and his single "Be Like That," has aired on the Texas radio station, The Ticket 1310. Check out his debut mus

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Just a post about one of the biggest night of the year in Australian music the 2007 Australia Idol winner. This year it was Natalie Gauci a lovely girl who beat Matt Corby. I have also include a video of what her first single as the Australian Idol winner. Please enjoy and remember if you want to see more of my posts go to www.natspack.com an

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One thing I try to do when creating drums for my tracks is to really try and get a BIG sound. I love big fat drum sounds :-). The drums are the first part of a track that I lay down and I believe that if I can get the drums to sound great to me before putting any other sounds on, I know that my track will sound great to me also. One way I try

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If you are not aware of what an ID3 tag is in an .mp3 file, woe be unto you when you plug in your very first iPod (or other digital audio player) and transfer all your files over. Those darn things need to be properly and very accurately organized to display titles, pictures, and other information correctly on your digital audio player of cho

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Ok, that was cheese, but these two definately aren’t. The light and airy sound of Soulfire is reminiscent of Jack Johnson, Ben Harper and others who play lightly on the strings.rnrnFrom their page: “Soulfire was formed around a fire in the mountains of South Africa’s Cedarberg region. Both Dave and Duncan have had successful solo careers

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If Andrew Dudum were to try out for any of Penn's a capella groups, odds are he would have surely made it. Instead this talented undergrad is continuing on a solo track he started before he even got to Penn. Per the Daily Pennsylvanian, a few weeks ago Andrew was selected to headline the Rock the Mic for Darfur concert which helped raise fun

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The Thummer from Thumtronics, I came across this new piece of kit via a post on Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog and I was quite impressed by it. The Thummer has lots of buttons in a new styled layout combined with abilities to manipulate the sounds it creates via it’s internal synthesizer.

Whether this will take off I’m not su

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Remember when MTV used to be just about music videos? Remember when you first heard that electronic sound tha just made you want to move? Remember when Myspace created a social network to give musicians a way to promote their music? Ok, now take all of those memories and throw them in a blender; now you have Internet DJ.

Oh, and don't for

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Tegan and Sara, my favorite lesbian identical twin sister Canadian band, came to the Pantages Theatre in Minneapolis on November 30th, 2007, in support of their phenomenal record The Con. The album is on my best of 2007 list. They played a nice mix of this record and their older material.
Overall, the show was very good, with some minor dis

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Musicians say the darnedest things. Uncensored Interview's blogging personality "The Shark" talks about recent interviews on the site featuring Backline talking about fat kids rolling down hills, pot smoking, and The Gay Blades extolling hatred for Nickelback. He also takes a bit of detour to explore the odd necessities of life, like say.

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Mason Jennings played a sold out show at First Avenue in Minneapolis on December 27th, 2007. Brother Matt Jennings came out to play on a few songs including an old song the pair had written about riding bikes intoxicated at night. Wife Amy Jennings came out to provide backing vocals on a few songs. Finally, he brought out his dad to sing some

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The next frontier in audio.

What’s the big difference? “It’s another plastic disc!” With my technocrat father would probably ask.

That wouldn’t be far from the truth. Super Audio Compact Disc or SACD looks like any other CD out there. In two decades the design of the disc hasn’t radically changed. But while that may be true, beneath t

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One more reason why folks prefer a shorter term subscription over the lifetime option is they have some concerns about the service. These who tend to be skeptical would often opt for the shortest term subscription offer, say 1-month, to check if the service is professional and live up to its promise of great service. It is very much like shop

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