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Releasing an album with a major record label is similar to giving birth. It usually takes nine months, and the pain can be unbearable. Even at its most efficient, the process requires the input and assent of retail conglomerates, lawyers, marketers, radio promoters and CD manufacturers. And if the project is a runaway success, it might bring in half the revenue it would have a few years...
...Another class of search engines that we find beyond the top four are the retro-engines, or search engines that were at the top of their game in the '90s like Altavista and Lycos. These engines are the Internet equivalent of classic rock and oldies radio stations that pepper the airwaves. Demographic profiles of these search engines reveal that most users are in the 35 to 44 age category, most likely users that began using these engines in their heyday and maintained their loyalty...
...Rainbows blazes new possibilities for established bands, it could also provide labels with a chance to redefine their business. The majors can still be influential and profitable by focusing on younger acts that need muscle to get radio play and placement in record stores, or they can continue the recent trend of signing mature acts to "360 deals," in which they participate in profits from nonrecord income streams like touring and publishing...
...till next year." Next year the ballpark was empty. And I was faced with an existential dilemma. Should I root for the home team, the arrogant, ridiculously successful New York Yankees? Or should I persist in my loyalty, stay up late listening to Giants games re-created on the radio by Les Keiter, who would simulate hits by making a thwok sound with, I think, his mouth? I persisted, and more: I went to Yankee Stadium and rooted against the home team. Indeed, the fanly highlight of my tween years was attending a doubleheader in which the mythically awful Washington...
...Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is already running radio ads against Kuhl and his seven colleagues, in addition to automated phone calls and an e-mail campaign. "Congressman Kuhl has a simple choice: give 10 million children the health care they need or turn his back on those children," the radio announcer says in one spot. "Call Congressman Kuhl and tell him to stand with kids, NOT George Bush...