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		<title>Norma Jean public rant justified, or not?</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2011/12/norma-jean-public-rant-justified-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a fan of Norma Jean since they were the Luti-Kriss and had a DJ.  In 2001 I had the band play my church in support of Living Sacrifice and it was a ridiculous show. I&#8217;ll never forget my pastor covering his eyes and going home the moment he saw Josh walking across the ]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Lefsetz on the Topic of Entitlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Lefsetz shares his thoughts on entitlement. Personally&#8230;. I love it. Join his email list: lefsetz.com I&#8217;m sick and fucking tired of people telling me they&#8217;ve put in their 10,000 hours, so they should be rich and famous. It&#8217;s 10,000 hours of HARD PRACTICE! Let me put it to you this way&#8230; If you spend ]]></description>
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		<title>Kickstarter My Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago I saw an update about Five Iron Frenzy hit my Facebook feed regarding their return to creating and performing music.  What really struck me about this was not the notion that SKA could be seeing a revival&#8230;  It was more like &#8220;holy crap, they&#8217;ve raised HOW MUCH MONEY?&#8221; The news item ]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Festival and Likeness Ownership</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2011/11/qa-festival-and-likeness-ownership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: Peter Question:  My band Bicycle Thief have been selected to play an end of year festival. They sent us a contract, stipulating that they own all the rights to any photo&#8217;s or footage taken of us being &#8220;Bicycle Thief&#8221; during the performance. I was just wondering if that is standard practice? and if not how ]]></description>
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		<title>Spotify and the new economy</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2011/11/spotify-and-the-new-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pulling catalogue from Spotify]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marklafay.com/blog/?p=1457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We can all agree that the improvements of technology over the past 10 years have drastically changed the way we receive and process information. Entertainment is the best example of how this change has taken place.  We are an &#8220;On-Demand&#8221; culture. We want to be able to watch, listen, eat on our terms. Tivo, NetFlix, ]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Should we make a good DEMO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: Austen Question:  Hey Mark! A few friends and I are in the process of forming a hardcore/metalcore band after some like The Chariot, Haste the Day, but with influences from all over everywhere. I, being screamed vocals/bass, have 90&#8242;s-to-modern hardcore and metalcore influence, while our guitarist LOVES hair metal, with that being his main ]]></description>
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		<title>Covering a song just got easier</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, i&#8217;ve been involved in the process of obtaining rights to cover a particular song that was protected by US Copyright.  Haste the Day covered &#8220;Long Way Down&#8221; by the Goo Goo Dolls, Still Remains covered &#8220;Head Like A Hole&#8221; by Nine Inch Nails and Haste the Day also covered &#8220;Meet Me Halfway&#8221; ]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks South Africa!</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2011/10/thanks-south-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I went to South Africa…. The plan was to conduct 3 lectures, one at each of the COPA campuses.  The first was in Cape Town last Monday. My Schedule leading up to it went a little something like this:  Friday I flew from Indianapolis to Johannesburg via Atlanta (9000 miles) and arrived at 6:00pm ]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: How do you get moving with little money?</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2011/10/qa-how-do-you-get-moving-with-little-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: Randall Question: I had some questions about small/local labels.How do you get signed to a small/local label if you dont have the resources to record a decent sounding recording? my band has worked very hard to get where we are at, it was hard enough to pay for a one song rough demo,how would you ]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Aftermath from an exiting member</title>
		<link>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2011/10/qa-aftermath-from-an-exiting-member/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marklafay.com/blog/2011/10/qa-aftermath-from-an-exiting-member/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark LaFay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: Kyle Question: We kicked out our singer&#8230; Here&#8217;s our band&#8217;s current situation. Our singer and co-founding member just quit on us then a couple hours later tried to come back to the band. We decided it was best to go on without him. It was a messy split. He wrote the majority of the ]]></description>
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