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	<title>The Basement Rug &#187; General</title>
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	<description>Drop by every Saturday for new music</description>
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		<title>Universal Music Group Donates Over 200,000 Master Recordings to the Library of Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gestures comes as activists protest against new digital IP regimes like ACTA, SOPA, PIPA, and bill C-11 in Canada.]]></description>
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		<title>Today is Record Store Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 01:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Launched in 2008, this annual event helps promote local, independent record stores and the artists they carry.]]></description>
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		<title>Feel free to adjust your set&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/3719</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contemplations on the future - or lack thereof - of this here blog.]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Music Industry Dead?</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/2365</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are CD's officially dead? Can downloads and LP's save the music industry? Please share your thoughts!]]></description>
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		<title>The Beatles in FLAC format on USB Apple</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/2337</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are USB and SD card media the next big medium for recorded music? ]]></description>
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		<title>More than 60 Years of Billboard</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/1832</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somebody went to the trouble to compile and post all of the Billboard Charts from 1946-2008, and so I thought I should share the link with you. Enjoy!
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		<title>Like a complete unknown?</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/1791</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Associated Press] Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.

Dylan was in Long Branch, about a two-hour drive south of New York City, on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Road&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/1724</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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Hey folks! I&#8217;m just chiming in to let you know that I am on the road for the next little while. My current job is ending soon due to outsourcing and I have some decisions to make before the fall. My life may be moving in new directions. Several members of my family are also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new format begins on Saturday</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/1253</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will be regular song and album downloads each day this week. On Saturday (check out Birds With Broken Wings every Friday) The Basement Rug will begin posting weekly, featuring themed compilations and podcasts and who knows what else?

As other podcasters and bloggers out there can attest, compilations can take a considerable amount of work. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Year Gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day - thinking of the future and pining for past days.]]></description>
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		<title>How do you sterilize a banjo?</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/841</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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This story comes from the BBC:
A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure. 
Eddie Adcock is one of the pillars of Bluegrass Music and realised his tremor could threaten his ability to perform professionally. 
Surgeons placed electrodes in Mr Adcock&#8217;s brain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wire magazine &#8211; 100 Most Important Records Ever Made</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/702</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Wire magazine, these are the 100 Most Important Records Ever Made. Album covers and write-ups can be found here. I found the list so interesting, I decided to re-post it here:

Various Artists &#8211; On the Halls (1930)
Anton Webern &#8211; Complete Webern, Op. 1-31 (1991)
Various Artists &#8211; Earliest Negro Vocal Quartets, 1894-1928 (1991)
Igor Stravinsky &#8211; Petrouchka; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drummers need the stamina of athletes, U.K. study finds</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/679</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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[CBC] &#8211; As Debbie Harry sang Heart of Glass at live performances over the last eight years, Clem Burke kept the beat on drums behind her, while a monitor measured the beat of his heart.
Burke, who drums for the veteran band Blondie, was taking part in a long-term study of the effects drumming has on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/647</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following AP story was sent to me by a fellow collector. Be sure to check out the websites of the Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho and The Record Collector&#8217;s Guild.
Music lovers rediscover the timbre of turntable
By REBECCA BOONE, Associated Press Writer
Friday, 11 July 2008 &#8211; 9:29 AM ET

Lured by the portability of cassette tapes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acoustic Espionage &#8211; A Songwriter&#8217;s Open Stage</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/612</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acoustic Espionage is a songwriters open stage at The Silver Dollar Room, 486 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.]]></description>
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		<title>Filesharing soon to be outlawed in Canada?</title>
		<link>http://basementrug.com/605</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rugrat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings fellow rugrats. As you have likely surmised, I am a Canadian citizen, and as such, I am bound by Canadian law and protected (theoretically) by the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

File sharing is currently legal in Canada, but if federal bill C-61 passes successfully through Canadian Parliament, my file sharing [...]]]></description>
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