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...scales are tipping towards the self-made artist. More and more, big-name labels have been desperate to sign MCs with already-established, self-produced bodies of work. Take, for example, 50 Cent—his tracks were making waves on homemade “mixtape” CD-Rs for years before he got a major-label deal...
...League blew up, too. Start-up campus record label Veritas Records put their track on a compilation CD. Then, the Facebook advertised a League music video to all users. They started getting calls from Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records...
...visiting Harvard as a prefrosh when I first heard Belle and Sebastian. After my long first night on campus, I woke to the opening strains of their breakout album “If You’re Feeling Sinister,” coming from my host’s CD-player alarm clock. As rain ran down the windows of the Lionel common room, I fell in love. It turns out I wasn’t alone. “If You’re Feeling Sinister” and several subsequent albums won the Scottish septet a legion...
MANY HAPPY RETURNS With interest rates rising, bank CDs are a safe investment choice for the risk averse. A six-month CD from ETrade.com now earns 4.75% APY, one of the highest short-term CD rates nationwide. ? PayPal.com offers a money-market account with a rate of 4.38%, no minimum deposit and no withdrawal fee, but it is not FDIC insured. ? Check Bankrate.com to compare and evaluate CD and savings-account rates...
Enter Dr. Michael Barrett, 57, of Temple University in Philadelphia. A cardiologist by training, Barrett started playing with his new CD burner a few years ago and got to thinking that maybe the way medical schools teach their students to use the stethoscope is all wrong. Typically, he says, students attend a basic lecture and listen to a couple of practice recordings, then they're on their own. The cardiologist suspected that they needed more repetition for their brains to assimilate the patterns dependably...