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These past months saw a music industry in turmoil over hard-to-cope-with changes worldwide.

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I can’t ever recall a time when music was not part of my life

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Glorietta is evolving.

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In Empire Records, a ’90s Renee Zellweger starrer about a group of twentysomething misfits working in a dying independent record store, the enemy is The Man — corporate America, major record label chains like Tower Records.

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They’re still around in large numbers and for many uses, and recording artists still put their albums out in this format, but we know that the days of the CD are numbered.

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Apprehension makes the cold weather seem even colder. Nervousness kicks in along with the realization that I’ve got a super-band seated around me, willing to answer any question I put before them. But do the members of the band consider themselves as such?
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I can’t ever recall a time when music was not part of my life

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Glorietta is evolving.

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In Empire Records, a ’90s Renee Zellweger starrer about a group of twentysomething misfits working in a dying independent record store, the enemy is The Man — corporate America, major record label chains like Tower Records.

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You’re 13. You’re chatting on mIRC (remember that?) about Gundam Wing with a bunch of people from unknown parts of the world, when the Queen Bee of the chatroom types what looks like lyrics.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136154 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1670957 [AuthorName] => Regina Belmonte [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7826/ystar1thumbi.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 452664 [Title] => Requiem for the compact disc [Summary] =>

They’re still around in large numbers and for many uses, and recording artists still put their albums out in this format, but we know that the days of the CD are numbered.

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Apprehension makes the cold weather seem even colder. Nervousness kicks in along with the realization that I’ve got a super-band seated around me, willing to answer any question I put before them. But do the members of the band consider themselves as such?
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1670957 [AuthorName] => Regina Belmonte [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 246324 [Title] => Another Pinay making waves in US music scene [Summary] => Of course, the name Sharon T. doesn’t ring any bell here – at all. Not yet, anyway. Soon, it just might – it should! [DatePublished] => 2004-04-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134227 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) ) )
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