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Skype phone services allow students to contact worldwide
By Christina Simmons
When it comes to communication, nothing beats cheap, fast and easy. With the rapidly increasing methods of communication around the world, it's no surprise eBay joined the race. Skype, the online calling service owned by eBay, fits the ideal criteria for technologically advanced communication.
Local band aims to play Texas festival
By Erinn Connor
There is always that one tour, that one venue and that one stage in which everything can start happening for a band. Syracuse-area rock band, Merit, is hoping its big break will come at this year's South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. The band is competing in a contest on music Web site ReverbNation.
People Under the Stairs to play Schine Underground
By Heath D. Williams
University Union's Bandersnatch concert series will hold its first show of 2007 Tuesday night, with hip-hop group, People Under the Stairs performing in the Schine Underground at 8 p.m. People Under the Stairs is a Los Angeles-based alternative hip-hop duo whose sound has been compared to Jurassic 5 and A Tribe Called Quest.
Bloc Party tackles personal struggles in big city on new album
By Andy McCullough
Bloc Party "A Weekend in the City" 80 Decibels Sounds like: Interpol, Editors Bloc Party's Kele Okeneke sets the tone for his latest release with what should double as his band's mission statement: "I am trying to be heroic, in an age of modernity." Bloc Party stands apart from the rut of New Romantic and Goth throwbacks that arrived on the musical scene in recent years, meshing Gang of Four's gaunt guitar attack and politics with the sincerity and poignancy of U2.
