"Julian and I bonded over Scritti Politti, " Mr. Bing said, referring to the British New Wave group.
"We wanted to make pop songs but push the instrumentation, " Mr. Bing said.
"The pop people think it's too weird and the weird people think it's too pop, " Mr. Bing said of Fol Chen's music.
Participants receive a CD of their performance, "so they can go home with a dream memory of the song they made, " Mr. Bing said.
It's "time for all of us to move forward with a renewed commitment to transparency and high ethical standards in our city government, " Bing said in a statement Monday.
"If, in fact, the appointment of an emergency financial manager both stabilizes the city fiscally and supports our restructuring initiatives which improve the quality of life for our citizens, then I think there is a way for us to work together, " Mayor Dave Bing said in a statement.
Microsoft said that Bing organic U.S. market share grew to 15.1% while Bing-powered U.S. market share, including Yahoo properties, was 27%.
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In an e-mailed statement, a Microsoft spokesman said the company has no plans to pull Bing or any other Microsoft service from the Chinese market.
Mr Nadello said Microsoft had invested "significant dollars" in getting Bing on the search engine map.
Jevonsha Johnson, 28, said she wants Orr to keep in place efforts under Mayor Dave Bing to level as many of the city's 30, 000 or more vacant houses as funds allow.
Technology commentator Robert Scoble said that the new feature would present a real challenge to Microsoft search engine Bing, which has been slowly chipping away at Google's lead in the search market.
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