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The shooting is usually performed with firearms in these games; however, any weapon that dispatches projectiles qualifies, which makes many games (e.g. Heretic) that rely on medieval ranged weaponry or even magical projectiles shooters as well.
There are many shooter sub-genres, including fixed-screen shooters, scrolling shooters, rail shooters, and others.
Since the emergence of 3D graphics, 3D shooters, popularized by Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, have become the leading representatives of the genre. This sub-genre is sometimes referred to as first-person shooter, though this definition is not very precise, since the genre's distinguishing feature are 3D environments, not the perspective; some 3D shooters allow players to switch between perspectives, while others enforce a third-person view.
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Atari 2600 (1982)
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Apple II (1983)
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Genesis (1993)
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Commodore 64 (1987)
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Rapid Assault is a science fiction driving shooter. The action takes place in the fourth decade of the twenty-first century,...
PlayStation (1995), PSP (2007), PlayStation 3 (2007) and PS Vita (2012)
The object of interest in this game is the mysterious Valkiry Stone. Two treasure hunters, Axel and Ruka, set out...
Xbox One (2015)
Rare Replay is a compilation of 30 games by developer Rare / Ultimate - Play the Game / Ashby Computers...
Commodore 64 (1985)
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PlayStation 3 (2009)
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PlayStation 3 (2011)
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PlayStation 2 (2008) and PSP (2007)
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PlayStation 2 (2004) and PlayStation 3 (2012)
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PlayStation 2 (2005)
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DOS (1992), ZX Spectrum (1989), MSX (1989) and Amstrad CPC (1989)
Rath-Tha is a vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-up. In the far future the human race built a long tube that absorbed all of...
Windows (2006)
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Ravage is a shareware vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up game that bears a significant similarity to Raptor and Tyrian. The plot...
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Top games by as rated by the press:
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- 95 Resident Evil 4
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Department of EnglishKnowledge and skill goals for this undergraduate degree program are recorded in the most recent CU-Boulder catalog.
In some summaries of assessment activity, goals are referred to by number (e.g., K-2 is knowledge goal 2).
Since 1989-90 the department has examined upper division students' performance on knowledge goals K-1, K-2, and K-4, and on all four skills goals, by having external experts evaluate randomly selected essays from senior seminars including all sections of the capstone critical thinking course ENGL 4032. The evaluators have included Professors Robert M. Bender, of the University of Missouri at Columbia, Eric White of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Howard Mills of the University of Kent, England, Mark Winokur of Rhodes College, David McWhirter of Texas A&M University, and Kay Cook of Southern Utah University. Through 1993-94 the reviewers provided a summary comment for each essay and for the sample as a whole. Since 1994-95 the reviewers have also rated each essay on specific characteristics of critical thinking and writing.
In addition, in 1989-90 and 1990-91, an internal review committee of faculty evaluated randomly selected final exams from surveys of English and American literature. In 1993-94 and 1994-95, the committee evaluated embedded skills and knowledge questions in randomly selected mid-term exams from sections of English 2012 (Modern Critical Thought) a required introductory English major course. The grades assigned by the committee members were fairly consistent within each year's committee, suggesting that committee members used similar standards.
Overall, the external reviewers have praised the seniors' essays. E.g., "Your students, on the whole, seem to me well served in their courses. Once more, the essays I have read reveal student writers with an awareness of what the study of literature today entails, and an ability to communicate that awareness.(Bender, 1990-91)" "I was impressed with the degree to which virtually every one of the CU students was able to demonstrate at least a passable command of the fundamentals of essay form, critical analysis and interpretive argument. (White, 1991-92)" "All these seminars fulfill the educational aims implied by the phrase 'critical thinking'. It's clear that students have been encouraged to attend to the process of thinking as much as to the thoughts arrived at. (Mills, 1992-93)" Professor Winokur sees unevenness in writing skills: "I find the level of student sophistication extremely varied along every dimension: theoretical background; ability to construct complex, compelling theses; writing ability. (1992-93)" but notes that "the writing is precisely as problematic at Boulder as at other schools. (1993-94)" Professor Bender, reviewing again in 1994-95, noted that he was impressed with the changes that appear to be the result of the critical thinking requirement. Professor McWhirter (1995-96) also praised the students' training and ability in critical thinking: "...for almost all of [these students], the work undertaken here...has been produced out of an understanding that education is an ongoing process of inquiry and self-inquiry, a way of engaging the world rather than simply a body of knowledge to be absorbed." Professor Cook (1996-97) commented that these capstone courses "...challenge upper level students to deepen their critical thinking skills and to understand the multiple and complex issues that surround the texts under study [and] the majority of the students enrolled in these classes meet that challenge."
Professors McWhirter (1995-96) and Cook (1996-97) both found problems in one section of ENGL 4032, although even in that section the best of the students were able to surmount the limits of the course's approach. The faculty, preferring to schedule capstone courses that genuinely involve critical thinking rather than merely being specialized courses, feel it wise to remove that particular class from the ENGL 4032 seminars.
The 1989-91 internal review committees rated half or more of each sample of seniors' exams as B-level work or better. The 1993-94 and 1994-95 committees noted that as a foundation course, ENGL 2012 seemed to be working well. The students showed considerable success in reaching both content and skills goals. The grades in the skill areas were especially strong. Some of the more complex areas appeared to require additional work, but this was not surprising in a course at this level. This foundation course for the major seemed to be doing a good job of introducing the students to fundamental (if difficult) concepts and developing the skills they need for the study of English.
The major was redesigned in 1992-93. Modifications included addition of a new freshman writing seminar in 1994-95. The knowledge and skills goals statements will be reviewed in the light of the new major and the department will continue to evaluate its critical thinking courses and senior seminars. Assessing the effect of the new major on student performance by comparing the work of those in the new program and those in the old was part of a formal program review in l996-97. The department's self-study calls for additional changes in the early years of the major. During 1997-98, a curriculum committee will plan the revisions. After they are implemented, assessment will be expanded to evaluate the freshman and sophomore major courses.
In 1997-98, professor Kay Cook of Southern Utah University evaluated essays randomly chosen from four section of ENGL. 4030.
By the time the students complete the English major, characteristically with the Critical Thinking seminar, a substantial majority of our majors have reached a high level of achievement in the discipline. Since Professor Cook was our evaluator last year, we have an opportunity to compare the results in two successive years. Last year, 64% of the papers submitted were at the A and B levels; this year, 84% were at these levels. As Professor Cook notes, the students overwhelmingly demonstrate the ability to move beyond facile interpretations, and, she continues, the course itself provides rigorous assignments that allow the students to exercise the writing and critical thinking skills that they have developed over the course of the undergraduate English major. The student papers in this sample represent a wider range than in the past: the best are better, and the worst worse. It is, of course, possible that the selection just chanced to provide such a spectrum, but the result is worth pondering, and we will be looking at next year's results to determine if there is a trend. From the standpoint of providing a vehicle for critical thing, the course seems to be clearly doing its job: Professor Cook emphatically praises the sophistication of the arguments in the bulk of these papers, as well as the skill in organization and the general absence of sentence boundary problems. On the other hand, there are a number of elementary errors creeping into these papers (subject-verb agreement, confusion of plural and possessive forms; unnecessary tense shifts). Many of these problems may result from the widespread use of word-processing and the fact that spell-check does not detect certain common errors (its/it's; there/their/they're; lose/loose) resulting from carelessness.
Upon the evidence of the papers from this final English major course, the knowledge and skills goals are being fulfilled.
We are disturbed at the prevalence of minor grammatical errors, even in the best of student writing, and we have added a writing component to our introductory courses (Critical Analysis of Poetry, Critical Analysis of Prose). A revised major is now in place; we hope it will provide a balance between canonical and non-canonical works. Finally, we recommend that the introductory poetry and prose courses be evaluated in the outcomes assessment next year (Spring 1999).
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Francisco Pinto da Cunha Leal (Pedrógão, 22 August 1888 – Lisbon, 26 April 1970) was a Portuguese politician during the period of the Portuguese First Republic. He served as President of the Ministry (Prime Minister) between 1921 and 1922.
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I am trying to detect a gene that is expressed at a low level. I do RT to generate cDNA and then I use this cDNA for qPCR and for standard PCR. I use the same primers for both qPCR and for regular PCR. After doing qPCR and getting cycle numbers I just ran the products on the gel to make sure I was getting bands, I saw 2 bands one 200 and one 700, they were of the same intensity. However, after running the standard PCR on a gel I just see the 200 band. For the standard PCR I used jumpstart taq with a 1:00 elongation time at 72. Does anyone know why this is happening?
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Started by obog360, Aug 30 2011 11:06 PMPCR qPCR genotype
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Posted 31 August 2011 - 09:40 PM
What is the 700 bp band -- DNA contamination? Is everything the same except the taq in the two reaction? Many things such as template and primer concentration, taq, could affect amplification efficiency especially the bigger product.
Posted 01 September 2011 - 04:13 PM
Hey thanks for responding. The RNA was treated with DNase before qPCR and PCR so I don't think it is DNA concentration. No the primer concentrations are different I used 100 nM for qPCR and 250 nM for regular. I also used .3 ul of cDNA template for qPCR and .5 ul of cDNA template. The melting temperature was the same for both. I just tried PCR with different melting temperatures from 50 to 60 but still no band. I am using jumpstart taq for the regular pcr, do you think I should try with fidelity? Would jumpstart have a hard time amplifying 700 bp?
Posted 01 September 2011 - 10:49 PM
Are both the 200 and 700 bp bands expected by you? They are two isoforms to the same gene? JumpStart is a very good taq for amplifying difficult templates. The size is not a problem at all for JumpStart.
Posted 01 September 2011 - 11:17 PM
yeah the gene I'm looking at has a gfp reporter. The band I would expect based on gene sequence is 200 bp. But I think one band is the normal gene and the other may be the gfp knockin. I think GFP sequence is around 500 bp so it would make sense to have a 700 bp band.
Posted 02 September 2011 - 02:31 AM
never mind I think you were right it must have been DNA contamination because I am no longer getting the band with qpcr either. thanks
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Created. Difficult to remove the copyvio text, as it was added in 2005 and subsequent edits mesh into it - but at least we can keep the non-creative elements of the article as the basis for someone to re-create it. PamD (talk) 23:01, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
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I do not think a section on Delaney's influence on Morrissey deserves to be longer than the passage on Delaney herself, even assuming it deserves to be included at all. Yes, the article has had to be recreated because of a copyvio, but it remains an issue of undue weight. If the influence is so important, why does the article on Morrisey only feature a passing reference to Delaney, when including the contested passage there would not unbalance that article? Philip Cross (talk) 17:34, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
- I really don't think your application of WP:UNDUE is appropriate here. You're discussing importance, which is quite different than the description in WP:UNDUE. That rule applies to things like pseudo-scientific viewpoints (e.g. the "Flat Earth theory") that are given inappropriate attention, and what we're dealing with here has nothing to do with a controvertible opinion. I think the argument you're looking for is Wiki's rules on importance or notability (and obviously, Morrissey's notability is clearly established).Father McKenzie (talk) 20:12, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
- My argument was made when the passage on Morrissey was longer than the passage on the article's subject, so I have undermined my original case by working on it! The notability page you cite refers to legitimising the existence of articles, not sections of them, and links to the 'Due and undue weight' section of the NPOV article to explain policy. As that article puts it: "[u]ndue weight applies to more than just viewpoints—also to images, wikilinks, external links, categories, and all other material, as well. An article should not give undue weight to any aspects of the subject but should strive to treat each aspect with a weight appropriate to its significance to the subject." While you have demonstrated the validity of the reverse, what is the significance of Morrissey to Shelagh Delaney?
- The Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trivia sections) argues that 'trivia' sections of miscellaneous material should be avoided. You have not responded to my point that Morrissey's references to Delaney might be best incorporated into his article. Or alternatively the articles on his songs, or the article on The Smiths. No doubt the pop song inspired by A Taste of Honey, covered by a certain Liverpool combo, will be the next thing to be added. We have an article on the song incidentally, which could legitimately and easily worked into the play and film articles. Philip Cross (talk) 21:24, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
- First of all, the Beatles' song was a cover of a cover of a cover. A very distant reach back to Delaney herself. Morrissey on the other hand, cited Delaney personally as a tremendous influence, and has incorporated not only A Taste of Honey, but all of her written works into his music (You would undoubtedly agree that adding details about how he was influenced by The Lion In Love is excessive, though I could have). Second of all, this is not remotely a trivia section, I don't know how you could interpret it as that, as it has a single focus, and is not in any way a bulleted list of useless miscellanea. I realize what you are asking, regarding "the significance of Morrissey to Shelagh Delaney," but I'm going to ask you to provide the Wiki rule that requires that a cited relationship in an article to always flow in that direction. Father McKenzie (talk) 18:17, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
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I ordered this on QVC with high hopes and it has lived up to it. I love my Clarisonic brush and have been using it for about three years. It's worth the price! My skin feels so clean, looks so smooth, and has a nice glow due to this device. I can see and feel the difference everytime I use it. I've always had clogged pores and moderate acne, but this has helped my skin so much. The first two weeks my skin did purge and I was about to send it back, but thankfully I kept to the regimen. Three years later and I'm still very happy with this product. Give it a try!
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Love my Clarisonic Plus! Before purchasing it 6 months ago as a birthday gift to myself I spent several weeks reading up about it, deliberating whether it was worth the money and worrying it might not live up to the hype. I am very glad I bought it in the end because my skin is better than it's ever been. I have clogged pores and suffer from occasional breakouts. After starting to use Clarisonic I get a lot less breakouts, though I didn't clear up my pores much. Still, I'm more than pleased with the result. I do not use the body brush often, because I simply forget about it, but I do like that you get three different modes to use with the face setting meaning you can adjust the power of the vibrations. If I lost my Clarisonic Plus I'd definitely purchase another one.
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In July 1994, Bain-controlled Ampad bought Smith-Corona's struggling paper business -- home to the famed Marion plant.
(Despite shedding its paper business, Smith-Corona went bankrupt the next year. Nobody uses typewriters anymore. Ironically, a century earlier, people said Smith-Corona typewriters would never replace the pen. They probably railed against Smith-Corona as "vulture capitalists" destroying the pen industry.)
Seeking to succeed where Smith-Corona had failed, Bain's Ampad sought to renegotiate a suicide pact-union contract at the Marion plant. But instead of renegotiating, union president Randy Johnson thought it would be a great idea to immediately go on strike.
As long as the nation is still in the fifth stage of grief over Steve Jobs' death, with gushing tributes to his contributions to our wonderful new world of computerized books, letters, memos, newspapers, CDs and classified ads, ask yourselves: Would the mid-1990s have been a good time for workers in an industry made vulnerable by the new, paperless information age to stage a long, acrimonious strike?
Union president Randy Johnson thought it was. The Democrats (and some Republicans) apparently do, too.
Romney wasn't even at Bain during Ampad's acquisition of the Smith-Corona business, much less for the strike at the Marion plant. He was on a leave of absence from Bain to run against Sen. Ted Kennedy. Nonetheless, a dozen workers fired from Ampad's Marion plant showed up in Massachusetts to bird-dog Romney in the final months of his campaign.
It worked. Romney's lead disappeared and, after celebrating with a few cocktails, Kennedy returned to the Senate to continue wrecking the country.
About six months later, Ampad closed the Marion plant for good. As Ampad's president, Charles Hanson, explained at the time, the company had "sustained severe economic damage as a result of our inability to manufacture products at our Marion plant." Apparently, the only thing this ruthless capitalist lackey cared about was that the factory actually produce product!
In any event, it's highly unlikely that Bain would have anything to do with a day-to-day management decision to close a plant, anyway.
Bain led Ampad to thrive over the next few years, buying up more companies in 1995, hiring more workers and making investors nearly $100 million. By 1996, Ampad was being described in Chief Executive magazine as "a stronger, profitable competitor in a consolidating -- and reviving -- domestic industry."
Alas, people kept using those damn computers and shopping for discount paper at Staples and similar stores, and in 1999, Ampad had to file for bankruptcy protection.
Contrary to every single news report on Bain's involvement with Ampad, Bain did not drive the company to bankruptcy by looting it. To the contrary, Bain built up the company, added other companies to it, turned it into a "profitable competitor" that paid handsome dividends for a few years. (And by the way, the company would have gone bankrupt a lot sooner if it hadn't closed down the non-producing Marion plant.)
But in the end, that wasn't enough.
If years of furious acquisition, followed by bankruptcy nearly a decade later had been Bain's secret plan all along, Bain would be the most ham-fisted looter in history.
Politicians' morbid fear of technological advances in the free market has real-world consequences. You will recall that the mainstream media-adored FBI agent Colleen Rowley's main indictment of the bureau after 9/11 was that the FBI had really old computers, preventing it from anticipating the greatest terrorist attack in world history.
In response to Rowley's charges, for example, the Times' Maureen Dowd denounced federal law enforcement agencies for being "antiquated," "inept" and "bloated." (She also said: "I want to see some agents lose their jobs." Maureen Dowd: Inadvertent Romney Supporter.)
Of course, if the Democrats, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry were running things, the FBI would still be using paper and pens -- maybe quill pens -- all in order to save Randy Johnson's union job! Instead of a Xerox machine, they'd have a monk in the back room creating copies of documents by hand so as not to be accused of "vulture capitalism" for eliminating the monk's job.
I don't know how Mitt Romney is supposed to explain free market capitalism to career politicians, much less describe the intricacies of a thousand business decisions in two minutes during a debate.
But we know that Bain's acquisition of Ampad is the left's best shot against Romney's business career. We may presume they don't have anything better, or we'd be hearing about it.
The anti-Romney hysterics don't get to come back later with another company allegedly looted by Bain that I'll have to spend another week researching. Henceforth, I shall refer you back to the Ampad example -- their smoking gun -- which, as we have seen, is not even a water pistol.
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The Broken Royalty System Could Change in 2015
Jeff John Roberts, writing at
, looks at the different legal cases related to royalties and the music industry that are set to shake out this year.
A solution from courts or Congress is in order. The danger, though, is that a partial solution will protect parochial interests such as FM stations or labels that own 1960's recordings without creating a sustainable system for royalties in the digital age. There's also a risk that changes to the law will simply scapegoat companies like Pandora and Spotify, which represent the future of music, or even kill them off altogether. In any event, watch closely. This is the year that a lot of long-time log-jams in the music industry appear set...
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Release Days Are Changing: Industry Announces Fridays As Global Release Days
This summer
the music industry will adopt a global release day of Fridays
. Right now, as many of us know, Tuesdays are album release days for the United States, while the United Kingdom uses Mondays and many other countries around the world use Fridays. This new means that artists will be able to release new music on one day, everywhere.
The change comes after global record labels association IFPI announced today that Friday will be deemed as release day in all key countries round the world, following consultation with indie and major labels, artist representative organisations and music retailers.
The move means that artists will be able to instantly release their music on the...
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Eric Wong Promoted to EVP / GM of Island Records
Island Records
has promoted
Eric Wong to executive vice president / general manager at the label.
Until very recently Wong served as executive vice president of marketing at IDJ, where he created and developed strategies for Kanye West, Rihanna, Avicii and Bon Jovi, among others. He joined IDJ in 1999 and worked with a range of artists including The Killers and Fall Out Boy. He left in 2006 to juggle executive marketing positions at both Bad Boy Entertainment and Atlantic Records, where he helped guide the careers of Jay Z, Janelle Monae and others. In 2009 Wong formed Wong Management, serving as part of Mariah Carey's team, before returning to IDJ in 2011.
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Things to Do in College That Will Prepare You For the Music Industry
Our friends at
posted a blog
about the "Things to Do in College That Will Prepare You For the Music Industry" -- it's an interesting read. I agree with quite a bit of it (and most of the advice doesn't just apply to the music industry, but life in general) but here's my main advice for those that want to get into the music industry in some fashion: figure out what that phrase really means to you. I hear so many people say they want to work "in the music industry" and then when I ask what part they just say something like, "uh, I dunno, at a label or something." Spend some time thinking about what kind of work you'd want, where, and how you can be the best in that field. Then...
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A New Model for Music: Big Bands, Big Brands
David Carr writing for the
NY Times
on the current state of the cross section of
brands and music
And in a move that might seem redundant given the irony that she had already coated herself with, Lady Gaga invited the performance artist Millie Brown on stage to drink a bottle of neon green liquid and vomit all over her. Her actions � to happily shill for Doritos, then deliver a lecture on the importance of independent thought � perfectly encapsulate the conflicted state of the industry.
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Jason Tate
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Record Sales Increase in 2012 for the First Time in 13 Years
According to the
annual report
from the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), total music sales revenues in 2012 increased by 0.3% from 2011. This marks the first time that record sales have increased since 1999. Revenue from digital sales increased by 9% from 2011, and revenue from streaming services increased by a whopping 44%. The report also tells us that the best-selling song worldwide last year was "Call Me Maybe" by
Carly Rae Jepsen
(12.5 million units sold), and that for the second consecutive year
had the best-selling album, moving 8.3 million copies of
in 2012.
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Chris Collum
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Galaxie 500 Drummer Writes Column on the Business of Royalties Past and Present
Damon Krukowski of
Galaxie 500
has written a
column for Pitchfork
discussing the business of royalties since releasing the band's first LP in 1988 to streaming services' payouts now.
From the Column
To put this into perspective: Since we own our own recordings, by my calculation it would take songwriting royalties for roughly 312,000 plays on Pandora to earn us the profit of one--
-- LP sale. (On Spotify, one LP is equivalent to 47,680 plays.)
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Consequential Apathy: Do You Know Who You Are?
This week's Consequential Apathy is dedicated to the bands that did their thing in a short time and made a mark for future bands to come, just their hometown or even a small group of friends. You can
read my thoughts
after seeing one of my close friend's band play their final show. I want you to think of all the bands that lasted for such a short time but made a huge impact in
life. Head to the replies and be "that guy" who saw "that band" when.
Adam Pfleider
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Consequential Apathy: Pay For The Piano
You're going to need some time to sit down for this one this week. In case you haven't yet, please read NPR intern Emily White's
. Then read professor and ex-musician David Lowery's
. Then read Travis Morrison of The Dismemberment Plan's
to Lowery. If you make it through all of that, I've got some thoughts on all three pieces
. What I want you to think about this week is the tangible ownership of music. If there's one vinyl record or CD in your collection that you would never part with, why? When and where did you get it, and is there a story behind it? Would love to hear why the tangible medium will never die from music fans instead of the press.
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Adam Pfleider
on 06/20/12 - 12:47 AM
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Google Offering Billions for Rights to Label Catalogs?
In another interesting industry story,
this article
claims (behind quotes from anonymous "highly placed digital music sources") that Google has offered at least one record label over $1 billion "for all the rights in every country for every piece of music and for every platform." A piece of the article is below.
From the Article
What, one may ask, is Google thinking? �Who knows,� said the source. �It really doesn�t matter because they would screw it up anyway (referring to the fact that Google�s music service has been less than dazzling). Evidently they have a big content group and they have to have something to do to justify their existence.�
So how have the labels responded?...
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on 05/16/12 - 08:50 AM
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String Cheese Incident Attempts to Battle Ticketmaster Fees
A jam-band called
String Cheese Incident
is buying a large amount of tickets to its own shows from Ticketmaster and
re-selling them to its fans via its own website
to help fans avoid Ticketmaster service charges. The band is simply eating the service charge costs themselves, in an attempt to "stage a symbolic protest as part of a decade-long conflict with Ticketmaster." A snippet of the article is below. What are your thoughts on Ticketmaster's service charges, which the article states can add 30-40 percent to the cost of an order?
From the Article
�It costs us money to sell the tickets,� Keith Moseley, the band�s bassist, said. �But we are going to eat that cost this summer in order to...
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on 05/16/12 - 08:39 AM
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Attack Attack! Cracks Top 10 in Sales
This week's record
sales charts
are in, and it looks like
Attack Attack!
This Means War
managed to sneak into the top 10 overall with 17,500 sold. Congrats to Rise Records. Perhaps more importantly, they outsold
- who came in at No. 11. Please leave your thoughts on this in .gif form in the replies. Also relevant:
sold under 100,000 units of
for the first time in a long time, but if you count sales of
, she was still over that benchmark.
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on 01/25/12 - 10:01 AM
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Blog: Occupy The Value in Music
This weekend I wrote an extensive editorial about the importance of putting value in music both as artists and fans alike. You can read it
Adam Pfleider
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A Penny for a Stack of Wax
A writer for the Boston Pheonix
wrote an article
earlier this month about the fall of the Columbia House subscription service and how it relates to present day online pirating.
And yet, the record club was one of the most ingenious marketing ploys of the 20th century, perhaps right up there with rock and roll itself. It introduced the notion of getting music for free � which may have ultimately led to its own destruction, when people stopped buying even CDs. But those of us who remember it in its prime find pause when pillaging a torrent site or googling for the .rar file of a new album, and remember the halcyon era when checking off which records to get for "free" with an...
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Adam Pfleider
on 11/18/11 - 11:30 AM
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Corrected: Blink-182 Sales Predictions
: Whoops. We made a mistake. These numbers are only given about 54% of the total data. Sorry for the confusion.
sold just under 76,000 copies of
in its first week. That was good for third on the charts, behind J-Cole and Adele. The entire top 10 can be seen in the replies.
Thomas Nassiff
on 10/04/11 - 06:30 AM
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Five and Alive: Simpsons Melos
This week's
Five and Alive
is brought to you by "Theeee Siiimpsoooons...do do do dodo do do..." and includes commentary from Nick Reinhart of
Tera Melos
. If you love the show and want to read some thoughts about satire on the music industry written in 1996, I highly recommend that you check
this one out
Adam Pfleider
on 08/12/11 - 08:09 AM
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Odds of Being Successful Without a Record Contract?
What are the odds of being successful as a band
a record deal? The math says:
not good
. Note: This research paper is written with the UK musician in mind. However, its findings may loosely translate to USA musicians and other territories.
Jason Tate
on 06/23/11 - 10:51 AM
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Sympathy for the Devil
In an
that's a complete 180 from what seems to be the popular opinion here, Jeff Pollack of The Huffington Post argues in support of major record labels. What do you think?
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on 05/31/11 - 11:41 AM
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How The Music Industry is Killing Music and Blaming the Fans
a lengthy look at how the music industry is ultimately killing itself.
The battle to prevent filesharing has been lost, rightly or wrongly, but there are still plenty of honest folk out there willing to exchange cash for music in one form or another, and it's not that they don't want to recognise its value. It's that record labels no longer know how to earn their money, and can't decide how to let them pay for it anyway.
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Friday Discussion: Kickstarter
Last week, Punknews ran a
poll and discussion
about the business model of
. Two days ago, booking agent Neil Rubenstein, a prominent figure for some time in the Long Island music scene,
voiced his opinion on the subject
. Of the people I've shown his blog to, some agree and some completely disagree with his thoughts on the contemporary model.
Since the '80s D.I.Y. punk and hardcore scene, bands have worked odd jobs, used illegal methods to go about booking tours and lived in absolute squalor in co-op style houses across America. This has been going on for years and still does to this day. At the turn of the new millennium, technology took over and as we all are more than...
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on 04/15/11 - 12:32 AM
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Music Industry Article
Check out an article that I wrote about the struggles of the music industry in early 2011
. It includes quotes from Vinnie Fiorello (Less Than Jake/Paper + Plastick Records).
Thomas Nassiff
on 02/24/11 - 02:00 PM
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Music Industry Tackles Another Foe
Move over illegal file sharers, the music industry has their sights on
someone else
Adam Pfleider
on 07/14/10 - 03:11 PM
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Authentik Artists Podcast: Streaming Music Services
The fine folks over at
Authentik Artists
have released
a new podcast
, which centers on streaming music services available to artists. If you haven't checked out their other podcasts, they also have ones on DIY music marketing, production, publishing, and licensing.
Tony Pascarella
on 01/15/10 - 07:17 PM
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Five and Alive: Future Industry Lookout
This week's
Five and Alive
comes from Jason Tate. He gives us five things we should watch out for in the next decade to come. Join his thoughts in the replies and discuss what you think worked this past decade and what may or may not work in the next one to come.
Adam Pfleider
on 12/04/09 - 12:28 PM
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At Least Ask Us First, Amanda
Amanda Palmer
is not afraid to
take our money.
Submitted by patentpending
Blake Solomon
on 09/30/09 - 08:50 AM
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The Music Industry's New Business Plan?
Yesterday, the
New York Times
an interesting article
about Polyphonic, which invests in rising bands outside of the scope of a record label. What do you think of this idea and what bands would you like to see take advantage of opportunities like this?
Tony Pascarella
on 07/22/09 - 03:06 PM
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Your Label's Life Would Suck Without iTunes
Music labels
fear Apple
Drew Beringer
on 02/02/09 - 11:46 PM
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"The Album is Dead" - Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban
does his best
Jason Tate impersonation
weighing in
on some music industry ideas and addressing the dismal state of the album.
Adrian Villagomez
on 01/18/08 - 05:19 AM
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Music Executives Meet To Discuss Rap Lyrics
Several influential music industry executives met privately on Wednesday
to discuss
rap lyrics.
Rohan Kohli
on 04/20/07 - 08:26 AM
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