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The P.S. 22 Chorus of Staten Island, NY has risen to widespread popularity in recent years with covers of popular tunes, including (most recently) MGMT's Kids. But their videos go unmonetized due to the tricky gray area currently occupied by cover songs on YouTube.…
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The newest project from Goodie Bag's Kirby Ferguson, Everything is a Remix manages in seven minutes to show how ingrained sampling and remixing are in the music industry, using examples like the enduring baseline from Chic's Good Times and Led Zeppelin's greatest hits.…
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