BigChampagne’s building a social music chart

BigChampagne’s building a social music chart
Before the rise of online radio station Pandora and music video sites such as Vevo — and years before Apple launched its iTunes music store — Eric Garland reckoned that the Internet was going to transform the music industry. Back in 2000, when a lot of online listening activity involved illegal peer-to-peer file sharing via services such as Napster, Garland believed that all the online …
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Young Okotoks musician’s star is rising
When Okotoks singer-songwriter Loryn Taggart was 11 years old, she found herself the target of schoolyard bullying. “Being the artist, I was always the odd one out, the one that not a lot of people could understand,” explained Taggart, now 16.
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Dietary supplements firm Hain gets FDA 483 warning
RockHard Weekend? Unlikely, after sildenafil detection and voluntary recall The FDA’s Denver district director, Thomas Warwick, wrote to John Carroll, chief executive officer, Hain North America, listing eight areas where management practices at the firm’s dietary supplement manufacturing facility at Boulder, Colorado violated GMP rules.
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