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		<title>Segarini: Do You Believe In Magic.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magic is what has to happen to create a hit record or a long, successful career in music. It is magic because there is no full proof formula that ensures either goal. There are as many variables involved in making this magic happen as there are in the incredible list of things that have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Segarini: CMW Day Three: There Must Be Some Way Out of Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fairmont Royal York hotel is HUGE. Not just huge, it is gargantuan, massive, jaloaner, a leviathan of Biblical proportions. There are numerous entry ways, fully a dozen doors and even direct access to and from the subway. It is a magnificent edifice that was once the largest structure in Toronto, the tallest construct that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Segarini: CMW Day Two: Welcome to the Jungle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadian Music Week is an event of magnitude. It acts as a gravity well in this huge country, attracting people from all over the world whose interests lie in music, broadcasting, and the support systems that surround them. A gathering of like-minded individuals who, through trial and error, navigate the twists and turns of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Segarini: The Music Industry Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am perplexed. With all the doom and gloom one reads about the state of the music industry, you would think that people would be running from the business screaming, their hair on fire, and yappy dogs nipping at their heels. Nothing could be further from the truth. Look at the facts; Ga Ga and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rock Files: Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll Part Eight: Dance, Dance, Dance, Snort, Snort, Snort, Shake Your Booty, Shake Your BOO-TY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the Vietnam War finally ground to a halt, people breathed a collective sigh of relief and started to shake off the divisive influence the war had had on the generation gap. The youth culture, already divided between the mainstream and those more culturally influenced by drugs and music, fragmented even further. While most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Segarini: Robin Davey explains why the New Music Business is for Grown-Ups, and Your Mail!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like last week’s wonderful article by Laurel Massé about how difficult it is to sing the American National Anthem and why, another article I have recently read prompted me to contact the author and get his permission to reprint it here. I originally read the piece at one of my favourite go-to sites on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Segarini: The Weekend Roundup: Some Issues I&#8217;d Like to See Addressed and some Fine, Fine, Super Fine Music.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in Toronto we got an early preview of Spring Break on Thursday that will last through tonight and then revert to the usual February crapfest we endure every year. Oh, the birds weren’t chirping nor the hotties dressed in the little wisps of summer frocks they pull out when the sun shines and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rock Files: Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll Part Seven: Drugs turn Ugly, Altamont, and The Vietnam War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Woodstock and the inevitable media focus on not the music, but naked ‘hippies’ dancing around nude and covered in mud, the allure of Hippie Ideology was laid to rest pretty much everywhere. Middle America was inundated with pictures of kids passing joints around, and horror stories of smashed fences, massive amounts of garbage and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Segarini: Valentine’s Day, My Facebook Grammy Thread, and a few great videos.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valentine’s Day, a day that was initially celebrated by the Catholic Church in honour of a trio of Martyrs dating back to the 5th century, and kicked off the official Catholic calendar in 1969 by Pope Paul VI, has become what is referred to as a Hallmark Holiday and a cash cow for jewelers, greeting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Segarini: Laurel Massé sets the record straight about singing the American National Anthem, and a Bevy of Bright and Brilliant Babes singing Brilliantly.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been blessed with a remarkable amount of long lasting friendships with wonderful, talented people. Real friends, as you know, can sometimes be physically far away and rarely seen in person, but the friendship stays as strong as it has always been. When you do see these long-distance pals, it’s as though no time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rock Files: Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll Part Six: We Lose Our Way.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A note: Last week I told you we would be addressing the war, drugs turning ugly, and rocking turning into dancing. It turns out that this article has a mind of its own (so many of them do) and I have more to say than I thought I did. We’ll get to those topics next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Segarini: The Monday Morning Mailbag and Supporting Local Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the history of contemporary music, there was Alan Freed, Marshall Chess, Sam Phillips, Barry Gordy, Brian Epstein, Andrew Loog Oldham, Bill Graham, Tom Donahue, Jac Holzman, Phil Walden, and many others through the years who dared to take a chance, listen to their inner voice, and risk their credibility, money, and [...]]]></description>
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