Word: bandness
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...know that karaoke supposedly accounts for 1 out of every 4 consumer dollars spent on music worldwide? And the trend is only just catching on in the U.S., thanks to the popularity of hip video-game karaoke clones like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. My home karaoke bar will go much further, naturally, offering lots more songs (and maybe beer to minors). The trick is to keep my costs low, which won't be too difficult considering that many free, or cheap, karaoke sites have recently popped up online - Quittner's Qaraoke Qorner could be a bustling home business...
...tunes are added each week, depending on what the site's 20,000 users request.) Karaoke Party's interface is the nicest I've seen, and this site, which launched in August, does something unique: its computer scores your performance based on your talent, à la Rock Band. Co-founder Mats Fors said he and his partners cut their teeth managing websites for banks, so building a karaoke site was trivial, engineering-wise. "We saw the opportunity for a good karaoke solution," he said...
...protagonists struggle with a world that challenges them to break free of their parents' expectations: Will they be dutiful sons and find good jobs, or will they indulge in idealism and take risks? In one passage in Above Average, the character Arindam experiences an epiphany while playing in a band: "That first roll to the end of the song was the one time in my life when anything seemed possible ... the one time in my life when I was not a bespectacled Bengali computer scientist sitting in a small room in Mayur Vihar, but Mitch Mitchell himself, the master...
...colleagues, Biden is now leashed to a teleprompter even when he is talking in a high school gym that is three-quarters empty. The exposure hound who in recent years appeared more often than any other guest on the Sunday talk shows is a virtual stranger to the small band of reporters on his plane - less accessible than even Sarah Palin is to her traveling pack of bloodhounds. And Biden keeps to a schedule that provides a minimum of off-the-cuff encounters with voters, except across a rope line. See Joe Biden's defining moments here...
...woman musicians are featured prominently,” said Susan B. Marine, director of the Women’s Center. “Women don’t get as much exposure in popular music, and it’s important not to buy into the idea that all bands are male.” Marine said the pub has been a great partner in promoting female performers, noting that it co-sponsored two similar events last year and hopes to host similar concerts each semester. “It is a great way to work together for a goal...