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More contacts, more advice. In 2010, MIDEM will push innovation further with MIDEM+, a new event dedicated to personalised networking where digital and music industry executives will be able to hold one-on-one meetings with around 40 experts from a wide range of fields including digital marketing, working with brands and looking for funding. MIDEM+ will open its doors in Cannes from 23 to 27 January, 2010.

"The idea is to offer tailor-made advice and a more individual approach. MIDEM+ is aimed at MIDEM participants who want to build on their experience of the marketplace and go home with the kind of concrete advice that is indispensable for developing their own businesses," said Dominique Leguern, director of MIDEM.

Registration to MIDEM+ and a full list of experts available at:

http://www.midem.com/MIDEM/Midem-plus/

abigail_nicole

TWO WEEKS OF RAIN
or, hurricane season in the fall

1. Atlas - Battles from the CD Mirrored. There are words in this song, and they haunt me with their almost-comprehensibility. If you like Animal Collective, Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade
   
2. Lisztomania - Phoenix from Woldfang Amadeus Phoenix. Some good advice: think less but see it grow. Kind of happy like the Thermals. If you haven't heard Wolfang Amadeus Phoenix already....you should.
   
3. I Say Fever - Ramona Falls from a Stereogum remix, actually. Who wants to wait five years? This remix is good, catchy and dissonant every time he says "fever", like a body shaking.
   
4. A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left - Andrew Bird from Andrew Bird and the Noble Production of Eggs. Everytime he says: "you're what happens when two substances collide / and by all accounts, you really should have died" I think he's talking to me. He whistles as an instrumental.
   
5. Cotton Crush - Kevin Devine from Split the Country, Split the Street. Entropy : the bricks always get torn up again. Jesse Lacey, of Brand New, also does guest vocals on this song and you can really tell.
   
6. The Con - Tegan and Sara from The Con. It's raining, I'm falling back asleep. Reminds me of driving over Lake Ponchartrain.
   
7. The Perpetual Self, or, "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?" - Sufjan Stevens from The Avalanche. with all that he has given to the world.....a qauestino, a song...Sufjan Stevens working his usual magic.
   
8. Cold Fusion (Snakes) - Chris Bathgate from A Cork Tale Whale. you know that I never sleep. Sad insomnia music.
   
9. Snowy Atlas Mountains - Fionn Regan from The End of History. this song sounds like snowy atlas mountains. Fionn Regan is adorable and talented an he makes one guitar do the work of a full band, his voice is just so cute and he writes very thoughtful songs.
   
10. Upward over the Mountain - Brand New from a live performance, but their new CD just came out and it's excellent. This song rips me up. It's a cover of an Iron and Wine song that sounds like the sun rising on a night that won't ever end.
    
11. My Backwards Walk - Frightened Rabbit from The Midnight Organ Fight. You're the shit, and I'm knee deep in it, you're-- this song stuck with me the first time I heard it and now there's the repeated theme of failure and repeat performances when I hear it: I'm working on drawing a straight line, and I'll draw until I get one right
    
12. International Small Arms Traffic Blues - the Mountain Goats from Tallahassee. Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania. Trucks loaded down with weapons, crossing over every night--love and war, silmultaneously
    
13. Jesus Saves - Andrew Jackson Jihad from Only God Can Judge Me. O man, I love playing this song on ukulele. "There will come a day when our cells won't regenerate, and everyone you know will rot away, rot away" possibly the only existential tune that always cheers me up.
    
14. Free Until They Cut Me Down - Iron and Wine from Our Endless Numbered Days. Everyone needs a love-and-gallows song.
    
15. Antichrist Televison Blues - the Arcade Fire from Neon Bible. The last line, that chilling: "so tell me, Lord, am I the Antichrist--" and the abrupt cut-off of the song is just a cry for help that won't go away.
    
16. The Market - The Hush Sound from So Sudden. "It's worth more to them than it is to you"--not a good feeling in a relationship.
    
17. I've Seen That Face - the Beatles from the Help! remaster. The song of all songs! I have never seen the like in this I've been alone, and I have missed things and kept out of sight, but other girls were never quite like this.
    
18. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra from Radio City. Just in case the sun ever comes out...
    
19. Sailing Home - Karen O and the Kids from the The Where The Wild Things Are Soundtrack. I think 'Sailing Home' is a good description.

abigail_nicole

1. Wake Up - The Arcade Fire from the Where The Wild Things Are Trailer. it made me want to make Max's wolf pyjamas.
   
2. Now We Can See - The Thermals. now we do away with the disease. a good sing-along song.
   
3. Sunlight - Tune-Yards. a song where you can sing any line at any time on pitch and it's great!
   
4. Celebrate the Body Electric - Ponytail. a unique approach to joyful noise. And a Walt Whitman reference! win all around.
   
5. It Gets Your Body Movin' - Suckers. this song is one big climax. it fills up the inside of my head.
   
6. Seven Mile Island - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. the first time I heard this song, in Big Lots, I tweeted the lyrics so I could look them up later, and I've been listening ever since. It's a single off his album that's about to come out, and also he's coming to a show near me but it's 21+ only, which is awful. also this is the song which helped me discover Sterogum, where I downloaded it, so all around a good thing.
   
7. Beautiful Things Can Come From The Dark - Azure Ray. this song is very fitting: like a night light, sad and fighting the dark and small and hopeful. I want to be hopeful again.

grendelity

The Octopus Project - Elq Milq // This is a tremendous, crashing sound that knocks itself down and then builds itself back up into a beauty of indietronica, topped off with a theremin. // site

Jonathan Johansson - Aldrig Ensam // Sweet and pretty, synthpop with an 80s flavor. The pitch I heard: "Warning: it may not be in English, but the refrain will cut you to ribbons." // myspace

Ulrich Schnauss - Look at the Sky // This song soars. It makes my heart sing. The pitch that completely sold me: "The song takes flight like a Da Vinci helicopter sketch come to life with synths and piano, cloudkissed and pumping furiously to keep itself airborne. From down below, the divine looks effortless." // site