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It’s Monday…add a little crooner culture into your life.
All about the style, swagger, and sexy hip of the smooth-voiced singers from the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s era of music and life.Crooner Culture is all about the style, swagger, and sexy hip of the smooth-voiced singers from the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s era of music and life.
Two tracks from Crooner Culture that you should have on your iPod
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Some crooners, most notably Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby or Jean Sablon, incorporated other popular styles into their music, such as Blues, Dixieland and even …read more

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The Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) is a group of some of the best independent music stores in America. CIMS maintains an ongoing list of the top album sales from these record stores in America.. This CIMS Chart is always an interesting reflection of what is selling in the great record stores across the land.
Released just last week (on the 22nd) Tokyo Police Club’s new album Elephant Shell has broken through and occupied the 11th spot on this diverse and top quality list. The Toronto band has always attracted attention with their high energy shows, their …read more

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The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal recently quashed a proposed levy on digital music players. The proposed levies weren’t cheap – $5 on each Memory Stick or SD card between 1GB and 4GB of memory, and digital audio recorder levies which top out at $75 for players with 30GB+ of space.
The Copyright Board of Canada argues that the extra tax is designed to compensate artists. The so-called “iPod Tax” would come in addition to existing levies on recordable media enforced in Canada, which are also meant to help compensate artists.
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