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							  Take three notorious singer-songwriters and one famous author. Give them eight hours to write and record an eight-song album. Broadcast the session on the internet. Release the album online the next morning, and perform it live in front of an audience the following night.
							  If you're a music fan, over the past few years you've had to wrestle with the moral question of our time: to pay or not to pay.
							  In the wake of the recording industry's crash, a cottage industry has sprung up around rethinking the commercial future of music.
							  Music is data. A shitload of it packed in every single song. To people, music equals entertainment. To a computer, it's a precise stream of ones and zeros.
							  The de-facto demise of WBCN might have been the best thing that could've happened to the Rock And Roll Rumble, if the finals Friday at T.T. the Bear's – capped off by a curtain call/group hug decreeing John Powhida International Airport the 2011 champs – was any indicator.
 
				
					
					
							
							  Morgan Spurlock ( Super Size Me ) is at it again.
							  Back in 1995, Seattle sculptor Dale Chihuly was in Finland creating glass chandeliers to be suspended over the canals of Venice in a major outdoor installation the following year.
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