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		<title>Tower Japan boss says biggest challenge facing record stores is attracting young customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve McClure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I was preparing to do a guest slot on InterFM’s “The Selector” program, which features music mavens sharing their favorite tracks. While I had a few tunes from the not-so-recent past in mind, I needed some newer stuff to round out the playlist. I went to Tower Records Japan&#8217;s flagship store [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s festival industry is stuck in a fine kettle of fish</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve McClure</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hostess Club Weekender]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are summer festivals killing Japan&#8217;s live-music market? Weird question, right? Hundreds of thousands of people shell out gobs of yen every summer to see an amazing array of domestic and international acts rock out at festivals up and down the Japanese archipelago. (Organizers say last year&#8217;s Fuji Rock Festival drew 140,000 attendees, while Summer Sonic&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Been down so long, it looks like up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve McClure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been to a lot of music-industry conferences over the years, and for the past decade I&#8217;ve listened to the same old song: How can the recording industry fight online piracy, which it blames for plunging music sales? So at this year&#8217;s Music Matters (MM) conference in Singapore on May 23 and 24, it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universal-EMI is the dinosaur in the room</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last September, the European Commission and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved Universal Music Group&#8217;s buyout of EMI. Since then, the two record companies have been merging their operations worldwide. In Japan, the combined Universal-EMI entity will have a market share of between 15 percent and 20 percent. Is this a good thing? Or has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barakan wants InterFM to dial down the talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve McClure</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While station-surfing on my car radio several years back, I chanced upon a program about Led Zeppelin&#8217;s Jimmy Page. The disc jockey said Page&#8217;s solo in &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221; was among his best. The familiar strains of the Zep classic soon filled the air, and I cranked up the volume in anticipation of Page&#8217;s magnificent [...]]]></description>
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