Boyish Norwegian wins Eurovision Song Contest

MOSCOW – A boyish fiddle-wielding Norwegian singer won the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow on Saturday night – his bouncy ditty the highlight of the musical bonanza studded with pyrotechnic artistry and stunning electronic visuals on an epic scale. Maybe this is where American Idol should go?

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Mic Shoot-Out : Blue Bottle versus AKG C-12

Founded in 1995 by Skipper Wise and Martins Saulespurens, Blue has grown from a desire to create a few hand-built mics for fellow musicians into a unique, multi-faceted audio company with a prestigious line of award-winning microphones and accessories. Headquartered in Westlake Village, California and with engineering and manufacturing facilities in Latvia, Blue Microphones continues to grow and lead the way with cutting-edge design and technological innovation in the field of recording. Current projects include the building of a state-of-the-art recording and training facility and capsule testing area located at company headquarters in Southern California.

Having been very impressed by Blue, we have forged a relationship with them
and asked if they would willing put up their microphones for review and shoot-outs.
Confident in their quality and the performance of their mics, they basically
said, “bring it on”.

The first video is a mic shoot-out between Blue’s BOTTLE and Don
Felder’s (the Eagles from 1974–1980 and from 1994–2001) C-12 microphone. This 7-minute
video will provide an opportunity for you to listen to these two mics go at
each other on both an acoustic and electric guitar.

See the video :: Mic Shoot-Out between the Blue Bottle Microphone and the AKG C-12.

10 Dumbest 911 Calls

Some people call 911 for very strange reasons and often get in trouble for it. Meet ten 911 stories you won’t believe.

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Musical Mystery Tour: Messages… in Your Favorite Album

Ever since the mid-’60s, when thousands of bored and/or hopped-up Beatles fans wore out their needles playing Revolver backward, music fans have searched recordings for hidden messages. Plenty of missives are embedded in your favorite albums and videos. Can you dig ‘em?

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Lifehacker Laptop Bags: Adam Pash Edition

What’s in your laptop bag? I thought this was a fun post and Adam Pash did have a couple of things in his bag that I was missing from mine, i.e. the Belkin Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger (Amazon $15).

Are you self sufficient when you and your laptop are out and about?

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Ignore sunk costs

When making a choice between two options, only consider what’s going to happen in the future, not which investments you’ve made in the past. The past investments are over, lost, gone forever. They are irrelevant to the future.

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HowAudio.com is offering 30% off all their DVDs

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Amy Winehouse booed off stage during comeback gig

The crowd, who paid £33 for tickets, were shocked as Amy, 25, stumbled around on stage muttering to herself. She kept ordering roadies to bring more drinks, despite appearing to be on the verge of collapse, clinging to her microphone stand for support.

Was this unexpected?

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Cathedral to play Lennon's 'anti-religious' Imagine

The bells of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral are to ring out to John Lennon’s anthem Imagine, whose lyrics contain the line: ‘Imagine there’s no Heaven, it’s easy if you try, no Hell below us, above us only sky’.

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Cathedral to play Lennon's 'anti-religious' Imagine

The bells of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral are to ring out to John Lennon’s anthem Imagine, whose lyrics contain the line: ‘Imagine there’s no Heaven, it’s easy if you try, no Hell below us, above us only sky’.

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