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	<description>Enjoying and Producing Music</description>
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		<title>Sundance 2010 &#8211; batch 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Employing frequent cuts between scenes from a relationship&#8217;s hopeful past and scenes from its hopeless present, Blue Valentine details the gradual squandering of potential, where the two principals find themselves tied together in spite of not being quite right for each other. Michelle Williams brings both radiance and restless disappointment to her character, and undeniable chemistry with Ryan Gosling, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alstunes.com/blog/?p=105</link>
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		<title>Sundance 2010 &#8211; batch 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The career of &#8217;70&#8217;s girl-band the Runaways was as raw as a pick scratch and as fleeting as a line of coke. The biopic The Runaways captures that, turned up to 11. The two female leads – Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning – are wild and fearless as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, and Michael [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alstunes.com/blog/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Sundance 2010 &#8211; batch 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boy (John C. Riley) loses girl (Catherine Keener), then boy meets new girl (Marisa Tomei); so far so good, we still have a recognizable story. Then, boy meets new girl&#8217;s son (Jonah Hill); now the going gets weird, and the Duplass brothers&#8217; Cyrus takes a nicely executed left turn off the Hollywood romantic comedy main [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alstunes.com/blog/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Sundance 2010 &#8211; batch 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Winter&#8217;s Bone, the 17-year-old daughter of an absent, meth-cooking dad and a barely-present mom has to take care of her younger brother and sister, and has to deal with the grim reality that her barely-scraping-by situation could get much worse. To resolve the mess, she has to cross paths with some scummy and dangerous relatives. So, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alstunes.com/blog/?p=79</link>
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		<title>Sundance 2010 &#8211; batch 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The less-than-capacity audience that braved the snow and wind on the first morning of Sundance 2010 to get to the 8:30 AM premier of Bran Nue Dae realized, about 10 minutes in, that it was definitely worth the trip, and that the empty seats were missed opportunities for the timid no-shows. About 10 songs and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alstunes.com/blog/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Sundance 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Davis Guggenheim&#8217;s documentary It Might Get Loud rattled the roof at Park City&#8217;s new Temple Theater on the first morning of Sundance 2009. This film profiles and contrasts the influences, styles, and careers of Jimmy Page (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), The Edge (U2), and Jack White (White Stripes, Raconteurs). Highly entertaining and informative, this is a must-see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alstunes.com/blog/?p=21</link>
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		<title>West Coast Songwriters Conference 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The West Coast Songwriters organization has for many years been a source of guidance and inspiration for me and for many other local songwriters. At this years conference, AlsTunes had the opportunity to meet CD Baby founder and industry legend Derek Sivers (who, it turns out, is a fan of web programming language PHP, and who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alstunes.com/blog/?p=20</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I Belong on This Side Now&#8221; Video Now on YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AlsTunes used Final Cut Studio to put together this visual interpretation of &#8220;I Belong on This Side Now&#8221; from the Amy Holloway CD, featuring stock photos from the U. S. Army:
Thank You Troops
We think Amy&#8217;s haunting vocal performance works pretty well with these images.
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		<link>http://alstunes.com/blog/?p=19</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Tell Me You Love Me&#8221; Video Now on YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rachel&#8217;s live performance of her original song &#8220;Tell Me You Love Me&#8221;  at last May&#8217;s vocal showcase, supported by yours truly on the guitar, is now available on YouTube:
Tell Me You Love Me
Thanks to Rachel&#8217;s dad for shooting the video. I used Final Cut Studio to add a few titles and tack on a small trailer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alstunes.com/blog/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Rachel&#8217;s CD Now on iTunes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great news! You can now buy Rachel&#8217;s CD from the iTunes Music Store! This is where the sales should really pick up, and where we must focus our marketing efforts. Fans of Rachel! Please go to the I Get It! page on the iTunes Music Store and write reviews, and create iMixes. Here is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alstunes.com/blog/?p=17</link>
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