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Check out the HC page on MySpace! Be sure to add us to your friend list and spread the word!

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Have you checked out the killer vids from the Musikmesse show yet? If not, you should!

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Lars has got to be pissed about this:D

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Good news this morning for proponents of DRM-free online music (including me)! EMI and Apple's long-rumored deal about selling the EMI catalog online without any copy protection has come to fruition. Check out the details here.

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Harnett Man Arrested on Charges of Selling and Possession of Fake Gibson GuitarsRALEIGH, NC. – Steven F. Sexton, 48, of Lillington was charged Friday with two felony counts of criminal use of a counterfeit trademark, following an investigation by the North Carolina Secretary of State’s Trademark Enforcement Section.The investigation was initiated by a complaint to the Secretary of State’s Office

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We're happy to roll out the MIDI Keyboard Controller category for user reviews. Until now, MIDI was mashed in with the Synth category. Eventually we will add many more categories, including Drums/Percussion and Computer Audio Hardware, with sub-categories to follow.The existing MIDI controller reviews will live in the Synth category for the time being since it's a manual process to move them over

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We've begun the rollout on the new site design! It's been a long time coming, and I for one am glad to see the lavender disappear. Some of the navigation has changed, but you should be able to find everything you're looking for through the top and left-hand navigation bars.As you know there are A LOT of pages on the site (hey, it's 10 years old!), so we'll be adding the new scheme as we update

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Saw this being discussed in one of the forums and thought I'd mention it here. Apparently Van Halen and members of Led Zeppelin are suing a Colorado nightclub over copyright infringement because of bands playing cover songs there. Pretty weak IMO, particularly given Led Zeppelin's penchant for outright theft of old blues songs, then claiming them as their own work.

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By now you've all seen the updated forums, and while we've heard some complaints, most everybody seems pretty happy. A couple of issues I wanted to address and give an update on:1. The look of the forums:Yes, it looks like some other HC-type forums that are out there on the web. That's not intentional; it just so happens that many other sites use the default V-bulletin scheme. Once we get some

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What a weekend!I know I was glued to my computer for most of it getting press releases posted to the site, and there are still many more to come. Also, if you haven't checked out the highlight videos from the show, they're posted on the Winter NAMM 2007 Theater page. Many more videos will be posted in the coming days, so check back often or subscribe to the NAMM '07 podcast feed to get the latest

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Happy New Year from your friends at Harmony Central! Have a safe and prosperous 2007!

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We've expanded our user review section into Live Sound, and the first category to go live is PA Speakers and Monitors! Now you can share with your fellow musicians what you love/hate about those new speakers you bought, and as more reviews come in, use it to help you decide which products you want to invest in.

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Harmony Central's Winter NAMM '07 coverage is now live! I'll be adding press releases as they come in, so check back frequently.

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You can sense the buzz in the forums that the big daddy of industry trade shows--Winter NAMM--is fast approaching. The HC video team is getting their shooting schedule together, and the press releases are already rolling in. In the next week or so the Winter NAMM 2007 page will go live, and you'll be able to get a sneak peek at what's in store. Not from everyone, of course...some big names like

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OK, this I just had to share:) This might as well be Michael Scott and Dwight from The Office!

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Feel like a trip down Music Gear Memory Lane? The New Product/Trade Show Archive is the place to start.Now the thousands of products Harmony Central has posted since 1995 are easily accessible, as is our coverage of NAMM, AES, and Musikmesse trade shows. It's cool to see how the site and the industry have evolved over the years, so take a look around!

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Check out the 121st AES Show Theater page for all the product and performance videos from the 121st AES Convention in San Francisco! Not only will you get up close and personal with the hottest gear from the show, we've also got some great performance clips from Camp Freddy, "The World's Most Overachieving Cover Band" that includes Slash, Joe Satriani, Duff McKagan, Chester Bennington, Matt Sorum

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As you know there was some site maintenance happening last night. Apparently something happened to the news and reviews database, resulting in many areas of the site being down. Don't worry, this isn't a new home page layout or anything like that...we have people working on it as I type this and hopefully we can get things going again soon.

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In order to make the site more manageable and easier to navigate, we have created a new landing page and review category for acoustic guitars. We hope this makes it easier to find the information you're looking for!

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As the title would imply, we've updated our RSS Feeds to a new service. If you're currently subscribed, ditch those old feeds for the ones now posted on the RSS page. There's even one for the Guitar Hero vids, so you can be up to date when the interviews start being posted.

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Almost 2,000 views for the Guitar Hero vids on YouTube in just a few days! It's nice to see the word getting out about these guys. We also shot interviews with all 10 performers, and those will be showing up in the coming days. There's an RSS Feed for the Guitar Hero videos here, as well as an iTunes podcast (link to come). The videos from these locations will be of higher quality than what you

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Anton Tsygankov, also Russian, rocks the house at Guitar Hero 2006!

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Here's Joe's soulful rendition of Mariah Carey's "Vision Of Love."

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Ed mesmerized the crowd with his fretless guitar playing!

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Nathan came up from Texas to rock the crowd at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco!

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Direct from Moscow, here's Sergei Roudzinski's eclectic performance from the Guitar Hero 2006 Finals!

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Here's Ron's electrifying performance from Guitar Hero 2006!

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Josh is just 15 years old, but he rocks like a seasoned pro. Check him out!

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Here's David's explosive performance!

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Patrick's phenomenal performance on the acoustic earned him second place in Guitar Player's Guitar Hero 2006 Finals!

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Here's Trey's winning performance from Guitar Player's Guitar Hero 2006 Finals!Trey Alexander:

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Stay tuned to the Theater--the Guitar Hero videos are being encoded, and they look and sound great! Performances will be posted first and followed shortly by the interview segments!

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You may have noticed the home page of HC just got a lot shorter (man that sucker was long). What we did is move the "New @" and "Most Popular" product links from various retailers to their own page, which can be found at www.harmony-central.com/shopping. This new page will have some aesthetic changes made to it in the near future, plus we also plan to add content from the retailers--such as their

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Wow, what a weekend! First of all, congratulations to all the finalists, and to Trey Alexander, Guitar Player's Guitar Hero for 2006! Trey's performance was phenomenal, and he is one of the most genuine, down-to-earth guys I've had the pleasure of meeting. I didn't envy the judges at all, because all of the performances were stellar in their own right. First runner-up went to Patrick Woods, the

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Just checkin' in from San Fran! Got to spend some time this evening with some folks from Guitar Player, Hughes & Kettner, as well as the 10 Guitar Hero finalists. Truly a great group of guys--all getting along great without an ego in sight. I wish them all the best of luck tomorrow, and hope we can get some great footage and interviews from the event!

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I'm excited to be heading down to San Francisco this weekend to cover Guitar Player Magazine's Guitar Hero finals! The plan is to get some quick interviews with the contestants and judges, and a whole lot of performance footage from the ten finalists. I'll post here when stuff starts to get posted.Craig Anderton will be heading down to San Francisco as well in a couple of weeks for the 121st AES

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Back to the grind this morning after a nice long weekend. Hope you all had a safe and enjoyable Labor Day holiday!I see press releases from time to time announcing a new podcast, or a new episode of a podcast, and I thought it would be a good idea to create a "Podcast Directory" page on HC. I have a few links so far from previous press releases, but to really get this page happening I'd like to

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Bummer. This happened to the Derek Trucks Band not too long ago. If anyone knows anything please contact the authorities. http://jmascis.com/content/view/47/2/After a blistering set last night in Brooklyn, NY the band awoke this morning to find that their trailer had been broken into and all of the gear has been taken.J's Amma guitar, the mountain man guitar, Lou's Rickenbacker... EVERYTHING IS

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We're happy to announce the addition of Modern Drummer product reviews to the Harmony Central Library! Check 'em out!

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Hey y'all--Until we get the Flash player implemented on the home page Video Hot Spot, we thought a happy medium would be to only have sound-free clips in the meantime. So you don't need to worry about your overbearing boss catching you surfing HC when you should be working;) So go ahead and set your home page back to Harmony-Central.com if you changed it!We've also updated the New Products page.

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Our video team is still adding to our long list of videos shot at Summer NAMM. Be sure to check the Summer NAMM Video page for the latest and greatest!

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We've been consolidating a lot of articles, reviews, and trade show reports that have been kind of floating around the site into one place. With a wealth of information from HC's resident gear expert Craig Anderton, The Library is a great resource for any musician. Check it out and visit often as we'll be adding new content on a regular basis! Have a great weekend!

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As most of you have probably seen by now, we recently launched the Video Hot Spot on the home page. Most of the feedback we've received has been positive, but we also hear the concerns of other folks as far as the whole auto-start thing. The solution we are working on is switching over to a Flash-based player, which will give us more control over how these videos start and how users interact with

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A quick introduction...my name's Ara Ajizian, I serve as the content/news editor for Harmony Central. Thought this would be a good place to let you all in on what's hot in the day's news, new features/ideas for the site, and anything else that may cross my mind. A little about me: I've played bass for 13 years now...nothing too fancy about my playing but I hold down a solid groove. Been getting

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