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The National’s Aaron Dessner Talks About His Band’s Triumphant Year and New Projects
The National has had a pretty huge 2010. They released Pitchfork’s #28 album of the year , High Violet , and toured the globe. More recently, they released an expanded edition of High Violet with an extra disc of new material. And in their brief respite from touring, they’ve recorded a new song for the forthcoming indie film Win Win , starring Paul Giamatti. Aaron Dessner , who runs the band’s …
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What Amazon Needs to Do to Compete With iTunes
Amazon’s greatest asset in its war against iTunes has been a little promotional box labeled “Daily Deal.” Inconspicuously displayed in the upper left hand corner of the online retailer’s MP3 music store the “Deal” usually offers steeply discounted (usually $ 3.99 or $ 5.99), sometimes newly released, albums from well-known artists. Some of the biggest names that have participated in the cut-rate …
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