Formed in 2006, Black Kids didn't take long to attract the attention of nationally known music blogs, backing up the praise with breakout performances at the Athens Popfest.

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The clips are quickly becoming a genre of their own on YouTube and other sites, with some users taking one clip and remixing it with fresh backing music.

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Have you transmogrified any of Devo's music to the commercial backing tunes?

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The industry has at last given its backing to online music stores, such as Apple Computer's iTunes and Roxio's Napster 2.0 (not to be confused with the company killed off by the music industry for aiding illegal downloads).

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Over the last ten hours he's interviewed two potential VPs for his new video startup, answered hours' worth of e-mails about the music platform he's backing, Spotify, and met with a potential CEO for his Facebook charity app, Causes.

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It will make it easier for new music services to get started by ensuring that artists' work can be easily licensed for the internet, mobiles and streaming services such as Spotify, said Neil Gaffney, executive vice president at EMI Music Publishing UK, which is backing the scheme.

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Despite industry backing for several subscription-based online music services, such as Rhapsody, pressplay and MusicNet, response has been tepid.

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Rock stars such as Robert Plant and Peter Gabriel are backing a community buyout scheme by patrons of a music venue in Bath which is facing closure.

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Monitoring can be switched to listen to your recording signal against your backing track without incurring off-putting latency introduced by your music software.

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