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Check out the Synthesis Band Showdown on Synthesis.net. 64 bands will be competing over the next 13 weeks for fame and fortune…well ok, maybe not fame and fortune, but they will win some pretty great prizes and a ton of exposure. Sponsors include Cordless Recordings, Pearl, Drum Magazine, Pure Volume, Miles To Go Belts, Ulitmate Ears, and Epic Records. Go vote now on Synthesis.net…their fate is in your hands.

Pregnant Skydiver Survives Face-First Fall - Yahoo! News
Needed to attempt my first blogpost to the SynMagazine Blog Site. Preggers falling from the sky seemed like a good one.

Super spocks The Decemberists have signed a deal with Capitol Records. The band will start work on their Capitol debut sometime in April with Producer Chris Walla (also known as the least homely guy in Death Cab For Cutie). Whatever with this band, but I’m sure all those kids who feel super sweet for listening to the Arcade Fire instead of Fashion Emo will eat this shit up.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | State-of-the-art shoes aid migrantsArtist Judi Werthein has walked smack into the middle of this controversy.

She is hoping to leave her footprint with a special “crossing trainer” she has designed to help illegal immigrants negotiate the sometimes deadly terrain they encounter when crossing the border from Mexico to the US.

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