So… I came across a video of the new version of Melodyne. For anyone who isn’t into recording, Melodyne is the pitch correction software used to “fix” the vocal tracks of all your favorite pop stars. Well, with the new release due out this year, you can not only “fix” vocal tracks but it separates all the individual notes of a chord and

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Band:	Tokyo Police Club
Album:	Elephant Shell

Tokyo Police Club fans can bask in the familiarity of the sound of Elephant Shell. In fact, XM listeners have probably heard the majority of the songs featured on the album. It is fairly short at a total listen time of 28 minutes. I can say with confidence that Amazon’s current list price of $9.99, one dollar more than the download, is an accurate reflection of this shortness.

Existing fans may notice the absence of “Nature of the

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So… the new Metallica album release date has been “mistakenly” leaked by Amazon.com. October 28th, 2008 is the rumored date which is apparently a delay from the previously rumored date of September.

But it seems they are ramping up for the release already. The new site www.missionmetallica.com is being updated with the newest information regarding the album and a bunch of behind the

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I really don’t know what I expected. I don’t really like Scarlett Johansson. I think I was hoping it would come out sounding like Zooey Deschanel who I do like. She has a great voice and puts out some great music (she is also very charming as an actress). Unfortunately this song/video did not change my opinion of her

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The number of environmentally conscious artists has been growing significantly lately and even more so in the past year since the release of “An Inconvenient Truth” and the Live Earth concert from 7.7.07.

But also over this time, the amount of hypocrisy in these artists has grown as well. Al Gore has been a significant target of this backlash as he is one of

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