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		<title>Desmond Child&#8217;s ASCAP Interview</title>
		<link>http://songhacker.com/2008/04/19/desmond-child-mama-was-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Prudent</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Clay Aiken]]></category>

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ASCAP’s Playback magazine has a great interview with hit songwriter extraordinaire Desmond Child (Clay Aiken &#8220;Invisible&#8221;, Aerosmith &#8220;Dude Looks Like a Lady&#8221;, Bon Jovi &#8220;You Give Love a Bad Name&#8221;, Kelly Clarkson &#8220;Before Your Love&#8221;, Ricky Martin &#8220;Livin&#8217; la Vida Loca&#8221;). Child is an expert at co-writing and has some great tips for budding and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New XecretCode Web Site Online</title>
		<link>http://songhacker.com/2008/04/17/new-xecretcode-web-site-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Prudent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Songwriters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[XecretCode]]></category>

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In preparation for the release of Xsong v.1.0, I’ve put up the new XecretCode web site. This removes the old confusing SonoGraphx web site which I used as a stand in for a few months. For now, I’m still preparing version 1.0, but after the release, I’ll have a couple of screencasts to demonstrate some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn Songwriting From Apple…and American Idol</title>
		<link>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/23/american-idol-songwriter-contest-brought-to-you-by-apple/</link>
		<comments>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/23/american-idol-songwriter-contest-brought-to-you-by-apple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Prudent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American Idols]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Audacity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GarageBand]]></category>

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Submit By March 31st
Via WIRED’s Listening Post: You only have one week left to enter your songs into the American Idol Songwriting Contest. While I don’t always agree with their final choice, no one can argue the benefits of winning such contest. You get tons of exposure and the pleasure of sharing your publishing with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leonard Cohen&#8217;s Rock n&#8217; Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Speech</title>
		<link>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/21/leonard-cohens-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Prudent</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Lou Reed]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rock n' Roll Hall Of Fame]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Songwriters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[XecretCode]]></category>

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In case you missed it, Leonard Cohen was recently inducted into the Rock n’Roll Hall Of Fame. After a short rambling introduction courtesy of Lou Reed, Cohen proceeds into probably the most poetic induction speech ever.
My favorite part comes around 7:11:

Well, my friends are gone
And my hair is gray
And I ache in the places
Where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk On The Music Business</title>
		<link>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/21/wired%e2%80%99s-eliot-van-buskirk-on-the-music-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Prudent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Lindsay]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eliot Van Buskirk]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Merlin Mann]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Music Industry]]></category>

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Over at NPR Music, there’s this excellent interview with Eliot Van Buskirk who writes the Listening Post blog for Wired.com.
He does a pretty good job at explaining the current state of the music business. He puts TuneCore in relation with iTune and CDBaby. He can’t go too deep about hip hop as he’s mostly a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview With Red Sweater’s Daniel Jalkut</title>
		<link>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/17/interview-with-red-sweater%e2%80%99s-daniel-jalkut/</link>
		<comments>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/17/interview-with-red-sweater%e2%80%99s-daniel-jalkut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Prudent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Jalkut]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Gruber]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Shawn Blanc]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Songwriters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Songwriting Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[XecretCode]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Xsong]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[songwriter]]></category>

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As part of his ongoing series of in depth Mac-centric interviews, Shawn Blanc interviews Daniel Jalkut, maker of the excellent MarsEdit blogging software. Daniel is one of the rare engineers with a music degree and, like myself, a recreational songwriter.  Interesting how he mentioned that having worked at Apple lent him “instant credibility” as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Shredder to Writer</title>
		<link>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/15/from-shredder-to-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Prudent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bobby McFerrin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dianne Warren]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eddie Van Halen]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Guitar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jason Blume]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Joe Satriani]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Peterson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paul Gilbert]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter Gabriel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Randy Bachman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rush]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Songwriters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Songwriting Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Police]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tony MacAlpine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tori Amos]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vinnie Moore]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[XecretCode]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[songwriter]]></category>

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Shredful Past
I picked up my first electric guitar in the middle of the neo-classical period of rock music. I spent all my free time practicing while listening to hot guitar players such as Joe Satriani, Tony MacAlpine and Vinnie Moore. Because of this, it took me years to learn that good songwriting was mostly about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korg DS-10: Pocket Analog Synth</title>
		<link>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/12/korg-ds-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Prudent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Korg]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Korg DS-10]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Musikmesse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nintendo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iBand]]></category>

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The Korg DS-10. Right off Musikmesse 2008. This is a Korg software synthesizer running on a Nintendo DS hardware. How long before they port this to the iPhone/iPod touch? I&#8217;m not crazy about the pen but totally dig the &#8220;pocket-Moog&#8221; form factor.
The KORG DS-10 is a music-creation software for the Nintendo DS that combines the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PortaStudio: Old School Songwriting</title>
		<link>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/12/portastudios-a-songwriter%e2%80%99s-best-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/12/portastudios-a-songwriter%e2%80%99s-best-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Prudent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[GarageBand]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Portastudio]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Songwriters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Songwriting Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tascam]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[XecretCode]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Xsong]]></category>

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While doing some pre-emptive spring-cleaning, I stumbled across a box full of (mostly bad) songs recorded on a PortaStudio. Of course, I don’t have the unit anymore, so I did some quick research on how to get my hands on a unit today.
I was (pleasantly) surprised to learn that Tascam is still selling enough of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs On Rewriting</title>
		<link>http://songhacker.com/2008/03/10/steve-jobs-on-rewriting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Prudent</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Daring Fireball]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fortune magazine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pixar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Songwriters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Songwriting Software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>

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Story Crisis
Via DaringFireball. This is part of a longer interview Steve Jobs gave earlier to Fortune magazine. He says:
At Pixar when we were making Toy Story, there came a time when we were forced to admit that the story wasn&#8217;t great. It just wasn&#8217;t great. We stopped production for five months&#8230;. We paid them all [...]]]></description>
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