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10/20/2011 . 105.7 the X in Peoria takes a look at ten bands from the 90s that are still rocking hard today. Here is a couple from the list:

10) Korn: Korn became one of “nu-metal’s” premiere bands in the 90′s with the release of their album “Life is Peachy.” the album made it to number one on the Billboard 200 in 1998. they put the west coast rock scene on the map with bands like Deftones, Linkin Park, and Limp Bizkit. Since then, they have sold 16 million albums in the U.S. and 30+ million world-wide, won two Grammy Awards, and had 8 albums go platinum or gold. now in 2011, Jonathan Davis and crew have taken Korn in a slightly different direction. they have teamed up with Dubstep DJ Skrillex and will release “The Path of Totality” on December 6, 2011. it is a hot mess of awesomeness!

6) Pearl Jam: it has been a good run for Pearl Jam, to say the least! This year, the band has been celebrating their 20th anniversary. Considered one of the most influential bands of the decade, Pearl Jam formed in 1990 and hit the music scene with “Ten.” After refusing to make music videos and boycotting Ticketmaster, Rolling Stone described the band as having “spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame” in 2006. but, they have stayed strong, selling nearly 60 million albums to date. the PJ20 documentary and CD are in stores NOW. Check out concert footage at the Alpine Valley on the PJ20 tour with special guest Chris Cornell performing Temple of the Dog’s “Hunger Strike.”

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Mark Knopfler is an inspired songwriter. a former journalist, his keen observations of other people have led to some of his biggest hits with Dire Straits. Sultans of Swing was based on a small (and not very good) pub band he saw in Deptford, south London, in the mid-1970s. Money for Nothing was actually written in a new York store while eavesdropping on two delivery men complaining about the pop stars they were seeing on the TVs on display. Knopfler borrowed a pen and paper from a employee and literally sat down in a model kitchen in the store and copied down the banter he overheard.

Many of his songs are written in the first-person narrative form, although he’s not actually a Private Dancer (made famous by Tina Turner) or a detective (Private Investigations from love over Gold) or a war criminal (The Man’s too Strong from Brothers in Arms). In a Rolling Stone article from 1985, Knopfler wondered, In fact, I’m still in two minds as to whether it’s a good idea to write songs that aren’t in the first person, to take on other characters.

In the Nineties, Knopfler began to find more and more song ideas from stories and characters he read about in books and articles and found fascinating. Heavy Fuel from Dire Straits last album, On every Street, is based loosely on the main character in Martin Amis’ novel Money. The title track from his second solo album, Sailing to Philadelphia, is a duet between the subjects of Thomas Pynchon’s lengthy and very quirky tale of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, of Mason-Dixon line fame. Although several real life people were the focus of Knopfler’s attention on the the 2005 Shangri-La album (Elvis Presley’s manager Colonel Tom Parker and the late skiffle-player Lonnie Donegan, for instance), two songs in particular were based on books. Ray Kroc’s biography inspired Boom like that, and many of the lyrics in the song about the founder of the McDonald’s fast-food chain are taken straight from Kroc’s own words. Song for Sonny Liston was directly inspired by Nick Tosches’ book The Devil and Sonny Liston.

The promoters of this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas, didn’t first turn to Twitter or Facebook or even radio to announce that Odd Future, Passion Pit, and the Misfits (reunion!) would headline the popular concert in 2011. they holed up in a virtual room on Turntable.fm and let the needle drop. 

The social music startup enables users to listen, socialize, and share (or “DJ”) music through a Facebook portal. And it’s growing fast. After one month in the wild, it surpassed 140,000 users; it’s raised $7.5 million at a $37.5 million valuation; and it’s received praise and interest from Fred Wilson and Kleiner Perkins. but beyond a service simply for entertainment–the platform lets users create avatars and join “rooms” to listen to and chat about music–some are beginning to see Turntable.fm as a powerful promotional tool for artists, songs, and concerts.

“You can do a ton with Turntable–I think it’s a superior concept,” says James moody, co-founder of Transmission Entertainment which puts on Fun Fun Fun Fest who has worked with acts including MGMT, the Hold Steady, GZA, and Yeasayer. The concert typically receives press from music rags such as Billboard, Rolling Stone, and Spin.

Exclusively on Turntable, Transmission plans to play song after song by the artists on this year’s roster to fans and press in the Fun Fun Fun Fest “room.” Bookers of the artists will be DJing the songs, ready to chat with fans and media about the music, the reunions, and other details of the concert. “For us, it’s a two-way press release, instead of it being a one-way poster,” moody says–in the past, Transmission would release the lineup to press via traditional (see: boring) means, such as a press release. “We’re creating a more emotional experience that you can’t get from a PDF.”

moody expects the release to create a social experience, with fans chatting–with each other, with the concert organizers, and with the press–and sharing their thoughts on social media. Tons of tweets are already linking to the listening room and live blogs. “Last night, I went into the [listening] room at one in the morning, and there were already like 15 squatters in our room, which to me is the equivalent of people waiting live outside a club the day before the concert,” moody says.

While moody expects as many as a couple thousand listeners could join the room, he acknowledges how young Turntable is, and how much room it has to grow. “The guys at Turntable are just under water with their new investment,” he says. “The funny thing is that [Turntable.fm cofounder] Seth [Goldstein] was like, ‘Just please don’t melt our system down.’”

Server-crashing traffic is always a sign of growth–it’s one of the reasons why moody turned to Turntable to promote the Fun Fun Fun Fest. but moody doesn’t see the service limited to the one-off concert. He sees the startup as an interactive, digital version of the much antiquated listening party.

“Imagine if Arcade Fire decided it wanted to reveal its songs only on Turntable,” moody says. “You experience the songs with the artist, and then ask questions in the chat room. The combination of music and conversation and the ability to buy the music–no one else has that. It’s great.”