Twelve years ago, Britain's Basement Jaxx couldn't get a record label interested in releasing the group's first EP.
When Emmanuel Jal first tried to get a record deal, he was met with a reaction all too familiar to many socially-conscious musicians.
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He reached out to the group through their booking agent, and found out they wanted to get a record out in time for their December tour.
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"I think when you're older, I had more of a sense of myself, and what I was and wasn't willing to do to get a record deal, " she says.
If you are a rock band, you spend years shopping your demo discs around to various people, play for years in small clubs trying to catch some attention, and eventually get a record deal where most of the money is made by the record company.
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He puts a ton of money into us, and we get ourselves a record deal with ABC Dunhill, whose big act is Steppenwolf.
The good news for those who invested in her talent is that they get a share of the record sales.
But he never managed to get a sympathetic picture into the record.
Iran's Ministry of Islamic Guidance does not consider rap an art form, so no Iranian rapper can get government permission to record a song.
You get a certain amount of freedom if you do a solo record which you don t really have if you re in a band.
Chicago has draconian gun laws, while in Houston, any citizen with no criminal record can get a permit to carry a concealed weapon out on the street.
But, she says, you can't wait until adulthood to learn about being frugal, or wait until you want to buy a home to learn that you need a credit record and a healthy credit score to get a mortgage.
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You know, give me those stocks that offer a good track record of raising earnings and dividends and get a high-quality rank and that pay you a dividend that's higher than that for the overall market so I can get paid while I wait.
United have a track record of helping players get their careers back on track, with Michael McIndoe among those who benefited from a spell at Edgar Street.
"My first inclination is to go back to a record label and get a job, " he says.
But today you're having Democrats up here, so I'd like to see if I could get you on the record on a couple of things.
If you're old enough to remember floppy disks, you'll get the point at once: A record, unlike a book, is only as durable as our ability to play it back.
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Still, is it enough of a track record to get the keys to the current Premier League champions, winners of five of the last seven English titles, and a club with a huge budget for transfers and wages?
If I get a break with the weather I have a good chance of breaking the record, but if the weather turns against me then it will be difficult.
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Today we saw the number of people reporting they were in part-time work because they couldn't get a full-time job reach another record high.
Americans are being forced into a scenario of accepting a lower standard of living, while the fat cats on Wall Street get a QE2 license to speculate and receive record bonuses.
The rapper and music mogul plays a record label boss in Get Him To the Greek, which features comedian Russell Brand as wayward rock star Aldous Snow and is out in the UK on 25 June.
And usually after the first episode, you just get a tape on a Monday, you write the music on a Tuesday, you record it on a Wednesday, send it back to them on a Thursday, and it's on TV next week.
The app, which would activate when it recognized the user's voice, would provide the patient and psychologist a more complete record of changes in emotion and mood, allowing the patient to get a better sense of their emotional triggers.
When enough people get involved, we have a pretty good track record.
She managed to get away from Broadway long enough to record a new album and she'll tell us more about it in just a few minutes.
Touring used to be a way to promote the record to get more record sales.
Every morning, hospitalized patients weigh themselves in front of a nurse, record the result and get quizzed on what they'd do at home.
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