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Brian Davidson's Every Which Way - Brian Davidson's Every Which Way

...by using musicians first and egos second Davidson really did produce something special.




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Sean Miller - Everywhere I Roam

The singer's resort-town home of Petoskey, MI figures largely in the album, influencing with its lakeside vibe. The seven-song EP features Miller's breezy summer tunes with a loose country bounce.




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Fervence - Ghost

Fervence find a perfect middle ground between pummeling riffs and gorgeous melodies on their debut Ghost.




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Aimée Steven - Hell Is A Teenage Girl




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TOPS - I Feel Alive

An 80s inspired pheromone rush.




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Mentrix - My Enemy, My Love

Sufi-sticated sounds.




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Deltaphonic - The Funk, The Soul & The Holy Groove

At the heart of their music is funk: deep and fluid, soulful and raunchy and thoroughly butt-wigglingly funky




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Amanda St John - Made Myself A Name (Arvo Party mix)

Very well worth a few minutes of anyone’s ears.




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Joe Bonamassa - A Conversation With Alice

...I’m surprised by just how damn good the single actually IS.




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John Blues Boyd - What My Eyes Have Seen

Quite stunning in many different ways.




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VE Day 75 Live - Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace lay down the red carpet, as the iconic setting for the BBC VE Day 75 Live The People’s celebrations. Tears flowed, emotions




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Frank Turner - Wickham Festival

Music News caught up with artist Frank Turner ahead of his set at the award-winning Wickham Festival. During the chat Frank talks everything from, his upcoming new album, dealing with the stresses and strains of the work life balance, his work as an author, not to mention a very special event coming up in the 37-year-olds life.




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The Riptide Movement

The Riptide Movement (Malachy Tuohy: Lead vocals, guitar - Gerry McGarry: Bass, vocals - JPR Dalton: Lead guitar) interviewed




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The Riptide Movement

The Riptide Movement (Malachy Tuohy: Lead vocals, guitar - Gerry McGarry: Bass, vocals - JPR Dalton: Lead guitar) interviewed




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Win 1 of 5 Tim Baker 'Forever Overhead' CDs

To celebrate the release of Tim Baker's EP 'The Eighteenth Hole Variations' and the new video featuring the live vocal trio




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Win Allusinlove T-Shirt and hand sprayed Vinyl

Yorkshire four piece Allusinlove are releasing a brand new video for their single ‘MyCat’ on Wednesday 11th March.




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Win André Rieu ‘Shall We Dance?’ DVDs

To celebrate the release of André Rieu’s ‘Shall We Dance?’ on DVD on 13th March, XXX is giving you the chance to win one of FIVE copies.




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Win The Touring Musician's Survival Guide Book

Being a musician may be fun, but it isn’t easy. It’s a career of highs, lows, rags, riches and a chance to see some of the world’s most unique places.




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Win Steady Rollin' Train Survival Pack

Pack includes: A stress ball, snack bar, tote bag and a train keyring with a torch, 2 t-shirts, CDs and stickers.




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Win Claudette’s Miraculous Motown Adventure Books

In this fun, illustrated picture book, Little Claudette lives in the magic kingdom of Motown, where all the happy children sing




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Win Eurovision 2020: A Tribute To The Artists And Songs 2xCDs

Luckily for Eurovision fans, all 41 songs will be available on EUROVISION 2020 – The Album - which is released on May 15th On UMC Records.




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Intro to IBM Bluemix Continuous Delivery, Part 1: Deploy and update a simple app

In this introductory series on Bluemix and Bluemix Continuous Delivery, you'll discover how using these products can prevent you from wasting time. You learn how to quickly and easily deploy a simple application, deploy an app that makes use of a Bluemix service, and write code that uses a new Bluemix service. You'll even try out the Web IDE (no setup required) and learn how to use agile planning tools. As a bonus to all of the knowledge you'll get by working through the examples in this series, you also get an application that checks the prices of items in online stores for you, so you don’t have to surf the web to see if your favorite items are on sale!




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Social power, influence, and performance in the NBA, Part 2: Exploring the individual NBA players

In this tutorial series, learn how to analyze how social media affects the NBA using Python, pandas, Jupyter Notebooks, and a touch of R. Part 2 explores individual athletes in the NBA: endorsement data, true on-the-court performance, and social power with Twitter and Wikipedia.




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Monitor mobile devices with the Geospatial Analytics service

Obtain, run, and extend a Node.js starter application that uses the IBM Cloud Geospatial Analytics service. With the Geospatial Analytics service, you can monitor moving devices from the Internet of Things. The service analyzes a device message stream from MQTT and tracks device locations in real time with respect to one or more geographic regions.




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Find out what's new for federation in Big SQL V4.X

Since my last tutorial on the subject appeared, some improvements have been made in terms of simplifying the setup process of the federation feature in Big SQL and adding support for new data sources or newer versions. This tutorial will take you through the incremental changes to the simplified configuration in the different versions of Big SQL V4 up to V4.2.4. It will also touch briefly on the more advanced topic of performance.




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A deep dive into the new software-defined converged infrastructure for SAS Foundation mixed workloads

This article describes the details behind the new software-defined converged infrastructure for deploying SAS Foundation Mixed Analytics workloads using IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS), IBM Spectrum Scale, IBM POWER8, and Mellanox networking technology. This article documents detailed test configurations, test scenarios, performance results, and tuning options for the converged infrastructure. This article provides a methodology to tune each component in the infrastructure horizontally, as well as tuning the solution vertically, which allowed the optimal performance to be achieved.




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Automate operational business decisions with Weather Data and Business Rules services on IBM Cloud, Part 1: Get started with a sample weather cancellation service

Businesses can make IT operations smarter by reacting to weather events and automating operational decisions that factor in weather data. This article describes the steps to combine services to automate decisions that consider weather data by running business rules. The business decisions could result in actions such as sending notifications, adjusting prices, generating promotions, triggering IoT devices, or initiating business processes.




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Enabling parallel Linux operating system deployment over a network on IBM PowerVM

This article explains how you can perform or enable parallel Linux OS installation on IBM PowerVM logical partitions.




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How WebSphere Application Server V8.x handles poison messages

This article describes how IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 8.x handles poison JMS messages, looks at the behaviour of both the default messaging provider and the IBM WebSphere MQ messaging provider, and provides information on how the default behaviour can be changed.




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Intro to IBM Bluemix Continuous Delivery, Part 2: Deploy an app that uses a Bluemix service

In this introductory series on Bluemix and Bluemix Continuous Delivery, you'll discover how using these products can prevent you from wasting time. Using the simple app created in Part 1, learn how to deploy an app that makes use of a Bluemix service in Part 2. Continue to Part 3, where you learn how to write code that uses the new Bluemix service. In Part 4, learn how to use the Delivery Pipeline service to deploy your app to Bluemix automatically whenever you or someone else on your team pushes code to your project's repository.




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DevOps with controls

You can have it all: quicker releases and security. In this article, learn about a discovery-focused, event-driven automation approach for controls to keep your organization safe in the cloud.




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Offloading your Informix data in Spark, Part 4: Leverage data against other data sources

In Part 4 of this tutorial series, you'll learn how to link external and public data to your existing data to gain insights for your sales team. In this scenario for retail sales, you'll learn how to forecast the hot sales areas for new wins.




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Manage account approval in an OpenWhisk application

This tutorial shows you how to write an application that allows users to self register, and then have their accounts approved or declined by an administrator.




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Use Clojure to write OpenWhisk actions, Part 3: Improve your OpenWhisk Clojure applications

In the previous two tutorials, you learned how to write a basic OpenWhisk Clojure application. In Part 3, I'll show you how to improve any such application. First, you'll learn how to support arguments that include double quotes. Then you'll learn how to use a permanent database (Cloudant) instead of a variable to store the information.




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Editor's picks: Top five WebSphere Liberty tutorials

If there is one thing that IBM WebSphere Liberty gives you, it's the freedom, and flexibility, to dynamically create applications both on-premises and in the cloud. This article highlights the top five tutorials in developerWorks for WebSphere Liberty.




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Develop an IBM i2 Analyze data access on-demand connector

IBM i2 Analyze is an extensible, scalable, and service-oriented analytical environment that is designed to provide organizations with access to intelligence when and where they need it, so they can make faster and more informed decisions.




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Establish an information governance policy framework in InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog

With the substantial growth in data volume, velocity, and variety comes a corresponding need to govern and manage the risk, quality, and cost of that data and provide higher confidence for its use. This is the domain of information governance, but it is a domain that many people struggle with in how to get started. This article provides a starting framework for information governance built around IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog.




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Performance improvement using IBM AIX flash cache

This article demonstrates how performance with IBM AIX flash can drastically improve read requests from a storage subsystem by running performance benchmark tests. The test team experimented using different performance benchmarks and measured the performance data to demonstrate the variation with and without AIX flash cache.




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Build a cognitive alert system for your IT operations

Learn how to integrate IT service management with AI services on an IoT device. You'll build a cognitive alert system for your IT operations.




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Resolving symbol information into meaningful function names in tprof

In scenerios where tprof utility fails to resolve the addresses of the symbols, instead reports the symbols in hexadecimal format. This makes perfomance analysis difficult, since the symbols would not have resolved into meaningful function names. This article explains the way in which users can translate the unresolved address in a tprof profile report to meaningful function address using gensyms and dbx commands.




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IPsec tunnel configuration between IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows, Part 2: IKEv1 IPsec tunnels between AIX 6.1 or later versions and Windows 2012

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IPsec tunnel configuration between IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows, Part 3: IKEv2 IPsec tunnels between AIX 6.1 or later versions and Windows 2012

Your article abstract goes here. Put the main points and key phrases at the beginning of the abstract, because it will be truncated in search results. Make your abstract enticing yet succinct. Aim for three to five sentences that express why the reader would care about the content (motive) and what he or she can gain from reading the content (benefits).




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vStorm Enterprise integrated with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) running on IBM Power Systems

Veristorm vStorm Enterprise makes data migration to Hadoop environments flexible, secure and easy. vStorm already supports data movement to Hadoop solutions running on Linux on IBM Power Systems. Read this article for details about how vStorm was tested to integrate with and move data specifically to Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) on IBM POWER8.




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QlikView integrated with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) running on IBM Power Systems

QlikView is a business intelligence tool that allows data to be discovered and visualized. QlikView supports Hadoop environments as a data source. Read this article for details about how QlikView was tested to integrate with and visualize data in Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) on IBM POWER8.




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Automate operational business decisions with Weather Data and Business Rules services on IBM Cloud, Part 2: Complete your sample weather cancellation service

In this second installment of a two-part tutorial on how to combine Weather Data and Business Rules IBM Cloud services to automate operational business decisions based on weather conditions, you will take a closer look at the decision operation created in Part 1, learn how to create simple business rules that use weather data and a rule flow that includes these rules, and deploy the decision operation to IBM Cloud. A Node-RED flow will orchestrate a call to the weather data, the Business Rules service, and take action based on the outcome executing business rules.




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Cleansing, processing, and visualizing a data set, Part 1: Working with messy data

Discover common problems associated with cleansing data for validation and processing, with solutions for dealing with them. You'll also find a custom tool to make the process of cleansing data and merging data sets for analysis.




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Cleansing, processing, and visualizing a data set, Part 2: Gaining invaluable insight from clean data sets

Learn about VQ and ART algorithms. VQ quickly and efficiently clusters a data set; ART adapts the number of clusters based on the data set.




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Using N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) with kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) guests on IBM Power servers

This article provides the basic steps to use N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) technology in a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) guest. Additionally, the article also provides the significance of NPIV allowing multiple guests to make use of a single physical host bus adapter (HBA) to access multiple storage devices.




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IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.1 for 64-bit server performance

Learn how the 64-bit IBM® Lotus® Domino® 8.0.1 server performs against 32-bit Lotus Domino 8.0.1 using the N8Mail workload.




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IBM Connections Customizer is available! What's New?

The formal release of IBM Connections Customizer on IBM Connections Cloud took place on Friday, December 8th 2017. This means that any tenant organization of IBM Connections Cloud on the North America or Europe data centres can now sign up for this new production offering and use it to modify the out-of-the-box IBM Connections user experience.