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DonnaJean Records signs Christian Artist Kelly Ingram. Her uplifting debut single is set for a November Release. DonnaJean Records, the Atlanta-based indie that continues to expand its scope with recent Christian artist signings, has added singer/songwriter Kelly Ingram to its growing roster. (PRWeb Oct 8, 2008)

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Instead of dwelling on whether an economic apocalypse is about to loom upon us, some startups are plugging away at improving their products. Israeli Kampyle is a case-in-point. Today the company is extending its feedback analytics platform from websites to client software—with a specific focus on the installation process, a major pain point for client applications.

Most software client application installations have high abandonment rates. There’s no shortage of reasons for users to abort the installation process, these include: slow/heavy downloads, too many steps, security concerns, lack of information, and too many ads. Speaking to customers, Kampyle learned that the aborts leave companies with many assumptions, but few conclusions. Sure, many companies trigger uninstall feedback forms when the user abruptly ends the installation, but it seems—at least from what Kampyle has learned—companies find it difficult to translate the collected information to actionable items.

Kampyle for Software is designed to do just that. It leverages Kampyle’s feedback analytics platform to aggregate and manage feedbacks generated by two forms it produces—one for the Installation, the other for uninstall. Instead of manually going through each feedback form, as many companies do today, Kampyle groups the feedback alltogether and presents the aggregate information in easy-to-read charts.  The forms are completely customizable of course, and so are the landing pages that are designated to open upon installation termination. No special programming knowledge is required to integrate the calls into installer creation tools such as InstallShield.

Kampyle for Software is free for Open Source applications. Commercial applications will be priced by scale, with a minimum of $99/mo. The first month is free so there’s no reason not to give it a shot.

From its debut 5 months ago, Kampyle has amassed 3000 customers. It may not be the next Google, but at least it’s plugging away.

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At 21 minutes long Vivian Girls‘ debut album is over almost before it begins; it flashes by in a cloud of sludgy distortion and hissy noise. The trio belongs to a proud heritage of noise pop that started (as do so many things) with the Velvet Underground, went through to the Shop Assistants and early My Bloody Valentine in the mid-’80s, and continued on to Black Tambourine and Tiger Trap in the late ’90s. Along with current bands like Times New Viking, Vivian Girls take their cues from their predecessors and cover their melodies in fuzzy gunk. It’s a winning formula, as the bands mentioned previously have proven. Vivian Girls don’t add much to the formula here as they race through the ten songs at a breathless pace, submerging the guitars in a sludgy murk and barely pausing for hooks. The vocals sound rushed and off-key, the harmonies are flat at times, and the drums often fall behind the beat as the rest of the band races for the finish line. If you demand precision and timing from your pop music, you’ll be aghast at the trio’s lack of professionalism. But what Vivian Girls sacrifice in chops, they gain back double in energy and immediacy. The sound of three people ripping through hooky tunes without regard for pleasantries and taste is one of the joys of rock & roll, and Vivian Girls do satisfy on that account. The album could have used more variation; the only ballad on the album (”Where Do You Run”) is one of the highlights, and proof that the band doesn’t need to bash everything out all the time. The bashing sounds pretty good, though, and a couple of the songs like “Tell the World” and “Wild Eyes” match up well with the best work of their influences. This is a fine introduction to the group, and if Vivian Girls stay out of fancy studios and keep cranking out good songs, they might come up with something as classic as Will Anything Happen or Tiger Trap.

Looks like the Sci-Fi Channel may have found a hit in Sanctuary. The former web series debuted on the network last Friday and was seen by more than 2.7 million viewers. The supernatural show’s success highlights some key similarities and differences between it and quarterlife, another high-profile web series that jumped to oldteevee.

Like quarterlife before it, Sanctuary was tapped to make the leap from the web to television amidst the writers’ strike earlier this year, when the networks were desperate for content. Both shows were picked up by NBC Universal properties — quarterlife by NBC, and Sanctuary by the Sci-Fi Channel.

The two shows have more than that in common. Both quarterlife and Sanctuary were created by teams of TV professionals. Sanctuary creator Damian Kindle had previously worked on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Both shows were expensive to produce. While quarterlife creator Marshall Herskovitz declined to give us a budget (he only said “way less” than any television show and “way more” than what was spent on online shows), it cost $4 million to produce the original 135-minute fx-heavy Sanctuary.

What was different was the expectation for each. One one hand, quarterlife drew an audience of 3.86 million for its debut on NBC, which put it in last place amongst the broadcast networks. The show was basically dead on arrival and quickly shuttled off to sister network Bravo. Sanctuary, on the other hand, has attracted a million less viewers, but because it was on a niche network, it gets a press release and praise from the network. (The real test is whether Sanctuary can grow this initial audience.)

The lesson here for future web series looking to make the leap to TV? Know your audience and migrate accordingly.

A film about President George W Bush is due to debut in the UK next month.

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Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
With equal time devoted to Deerhoof’s sweet, challenging and reflective sides, Offend Maggie is one of the band’s most balanced albums. Shades of The Runners Four’s sprawling experimentalism, Friend Opportunity’s economic pop and Apple O’s galloping riffs can be heard throughout these songs, but they never feel scattered — they just feel like natural additions to Deerhoof’s consistently interesting, and continually changing, body of work.

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
The eighth volume in Bob Dylan’s official bootleg series focuses on the songwriter from 1989’s Oh Mercy straight through 2006’s Modern Times. There are many stops –and surprises–along the way. It offers a better picture of Dylan through the 1990s and into the new millennium than his released studio records suggest, and is, if anything, a new Bob Dylan record rather than an odds and sods collection.

Lambchop - OH (Ohio)
OH (Ohio), Lambchop’s tenth proper album, finds the band in masterful form; Kurt Wagner and his seven accompanists (with two additional musicians helping out with horns and woodwinds) bring a dazzling sense of grace, balance, and drama to the melodies, and while one senses the size of the ensemble while listening to these songs, there’s no clutter or waste in the arrangements, and Lambchop is able to generate a compelling emotional immediacy no matter how broad their musical canvas.

Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s - Not Animal
Following a spat with Epic Records, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s were forced to issue two concurrent albums: Animal, the band’s preferred sophomore record, and Not Animal, which featured enough marketable material to appease their label. Not Animal is anything but a commercially-minded album, however. While the band’s debut effort drew parallels to Sufjan Stevens and Arcade Fire, this record is more introverted and melancholy, with the 8 bandmates rarely piling their instruments into lush musical heaps. Not Animal is a challenging listen, perhaps, but it grows all the more rewarding as the album progresses.

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Colorful and dense where Don’t Believe the Truth was straightforward, Dig Out Your Soul finds Oasis reconnecting to the churning psychedelic undercurrents in their music. This is heavy, murky music, as dense, brutal and loud as Oasis has ever been, building upon the swagger of Don’t Believe and containing not a hint of the hazy drift of their late ’90s records: it’s what Be Here Now would have sounded like without the blizzard of cocaine and electronica paranoia.

Jay Reatard - Matador Singles ‘08
Jay Reatard spent much of 2008 releasing singles for his new label Matador, six in all. Matador Singles ‘08 collects all the tracks and adds one song as a bonus. The songs find Reatard moving away from the frantic wildness of earlier records and into a more mature and tuneful direction. That said, there are still plenty of racous rockers mixed in among the acoustic guitar-driven and melodic mid-tempo songs.

Damon Aaron - Highlands
The Annuals - Such Fun
Antony & the Johnsons - Another World
Aqualung - Words & Music
Big & Rich - Big & Rich’s Super Galactic Fan Pak, Vol. 2
Harold Budd/Clive Wright - A Song for Lost Blossoms
Castanets - City of Refuge
Catfish Haven - Devastator
The Clash - Live at Shea Stadium
Crooked Fingers - Forfeit/Fortune
Crystal Antlers - EP
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Front 242 - Moments…
Ezra Furman & the Harpoons - Inside the Human Body
Grails - Doomsayer’s Holiday
Robin Guthrie - 3:19 Bande Originale du Film
Merle Haggard - 20 Hits, Vol. 2
Matt Hires - Live from the Hotel Cafe
Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead
Hot Lava - Lavalogy
I Am Ghost - Those We Leave Behind
Japanese Motors - Japanese Motors
Julian Koster - The Singing Saw at Christmastime
Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes
The Little Ones - Morning Tide
Del McCoury - The Best of Del McCoury: The Groovegrass Years
Tim McGraw - Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
Sarah McLachlan - Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan
Jon McLaughlin - OK Now
Pat Metheny & Anna Maria Jopek -