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<title>And The Winner Is: Will Awards And Contests Lead To Bigger Things?</title>
<category>Music Highway</category>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:09:26 +0800</pubDate>
<link>http://allwomencentral.com/column/17/And_The_Winner_Is_Will_Awards_And_Contests_Lead_To_Bigger_Things</link>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine this: you&rsquo;re a huge rockstar&nbsp; You&rsquo;re pool is filled with hotties and your bathtub with champagne&nbsp; You have a coffee table made out of your signature guitar and your Cadillac Escalade has beer on tap and a flat screen high definition TV...]]></description>
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<title>The Green-Eyed Monster: Are You Friends Really Happy For Your Success?</title>
<category>Music Highway</category>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:06:11 +0800</pubDate>
<link>http://allwomencentral.com/column/16/The_GreenEyed_Monster_Are_You_Friends_Really_Happy_For_Your_Success</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ideally, it should always be the way you&rsquo;ve imagined it in your daydreams&nbsp; You get the phone call you&rsquo;ve been waiting for: the big live review, the hot music management company wants you to sign with them, the A&amp;R rep from that major label is coming to your next showcase, or you were picked as one of the best unsigned musicians in the area&nbsp; Your first thought is to share your good news with your best friends, your comrades, your fellow struggling musicians...]]></description>
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<title>Set Goals: Your Rockstardom Wasn’t Built In A Day!</title>
<category>Music Highway</category>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:03:04 +0800</pubDate>
<link>http://allwomencentral.com/column/15/Set_Goals_Your_Rockstardom_Wasn%92t_Built_In_A_Day</link>
<description><![CDATA[Every musician currently living on the Planet Earth would love nothing more than to wake up tomorrow in the midst of their glorious peak of superstardom&nbsp; But, as Rome wasn&rsquo;t built in a day, neither is the career of any one musician&nbsp; A musical career is a long, sometimes arduous journey of tiny advances and minor setbacks filling the fragile shell of big breaks and huge disappointments...]]></description>
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<title>Create A Buzz: If You Build It They Will Come!</title>
<category>Music Highway</category>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:53:51 +0800</pubDate>
<link>http://allwomencentral.com/column/14/Create_A_Buzz_If_You_Build_It_They_Will_Come</link>
<description><![CDATA[Building a music career is hard work&nbsp; Every day, month and year you repeat the same grind: build the band, write the songs, record the songs, rehearse the songs, perform the songs, promote the band, advertise the band, solicit industry, publicize to the press, build the website, create the message boards, forums, and chat rooms, assemble the street team&hellip;it goes on and on until you think your head will surely explode from the mountains of menial tasks that face you, the unsigned artist, each day&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Still, after putting in all of that work a band will hit dry spells, slow times and glass ceilings...]]></description>
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<title>Get Up, Get On And Get Off: The Early Bird Catches The Record Deal!</title>
<category>Music Highway</category>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:24:46 +0800</pubDate>
<link>http://allwomencentral.com/column/11/Get_Up_Get_On_And_Get_Off_The_Early_Bird_Catches_The_Record_Deal</link>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine this…you’re in the local hospital’s pre-op ward waiting for the removal of your pesky rupturing appendix  You wait and wait in side splitting agony while your doctor chats it up with the nurses, gathering phone numbers from the hot ones  After what seems forever, he gets you prepped and begins the surgery...]]></description>
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<title>Radio Play: Will Topping The Charts Make You Bigger Than Elvis?</title>
<category>Music Highway</category>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
<link>http://allwomencentral.com/column/4/Radio_Play_Will_Topping_The_Charts_Make_You_Bigger_Than_Elvis</link>
<description><![CDATA[Every true life rock ‘n’ roll television melodrama has the same scene: the unknown artist/band gives their freshly cut 45rpm single to the local disc jockey  He spins it on his top 40 radio show…and a star is born  This legend has been passed down through the generations of wannabe popstars like an ancient family recipe...]]></description>
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<title>Managers: Can’t Live With Them… But Can You Live Without Them?</title>
<category>Music Highway</category>
<author>1</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
<link>http://allwomencentral.com/column/3/Managers_Can%92t_Live_With_Them%85_But_Can_You_Live_Without_Them</link>
<description><![CDATA[You can’t throw a rock in any metropolis on Earth without hitting someone claiming to be a manager  Where musicians go, managers follow  It’s as accepted and expected in the entertainment industry as an out-of-control cocaine habit or a failure to pay taxes...]]></description>
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<title>Leave Your Drama At Home: More Rockin’ And Less Squawkin’!</title>
<category>Music Highway</category>
<author>1</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
<link>http://allwomencentral.com/column/2/Leave_Your_Drama_At_Home_More_Rockin%92_And_Less_Squawkin%92</link>
<description><![CDATA[No matter how we, as human beings, live our lives…drama happens  And the average musician has more drama than the crazy cat lady down the block has bags of used litter on her porch  At every turn, your average wannabe rockstar has a crazy squeeze, a crazier ex, a harem of would-be lovers, and a gaggle of insane stalkers...]]></description>
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<title>Fan Etiquette: Are The People Who Love Your Music Ruining Your Band’s Reputation?</title>
<category>Music Highway</category>
<author>1</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0800</pubDate>
<link>http://allwomencentral.com/column/1/Fan_Etiquette_Are_The_People_Who_Love_Your_Music_Ruining_Your_Band%92s_Reputation</link>
<description><![CDATA[They’re generous, they’re consistent, they’re giving…and most of all...]]></description>
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