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PLUG IS PULLED ON 'THE MIC' LIBERAL TALK RADIO DUMPED FOR FOX SPORTS.(FRONT)

…their political fortunes became much brighter, with Democrats seizing control of Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections. A harder irony to swallow may be that the station will soon be affiliated with Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Corp., given that so many see Murdoch's Fox News Channel as bearing a decidedly pro-Republican slant.

Matt Rothschild, editor of the Madison-based magazine The Progressive and a frequent commentator on the station, said he expects to hear an uproar among local listeners about the format change. He said The Mic delivered some of the best radio programming in town, providing a source of information and inspiration to progressives, especially during darker days like the day after the 2004 presidential election.

"It was a port in the storm when things were going real badly politically," Rothschild said. "You could go reliably any time day or night to make yourself feel that you weren't so isolated or beleaguered by the events of the day. That's going to be felt painfully by many people in the community."

Fans of Air America programming will still be able to hear it online via streaming audio at www.airamerica.com. Other syndicated shows not affiliated through Air America that WXXM carried, including "The Stephanie Miller Show" (www.stephaniemiller.com) and "The Ed Schultz Show" (www.bigeddieradio.com), can be heard through those shows'…

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…Kyle Patrick.

Asked about the upcoming disc during a telephone call from his tour bus — driving in upstate New York — bassist Ethan Mentzer states the obvious. The group also includes guitarist Joe Guese, keyboardist Ben Romanshan and drummer Joey Zehr.

"I think that the drastic difference is gonna be the fact that Kyle is singing and Eric is not," Mentzer says. "They have very different voices. But ... stylistically, we still consider ourselves a rock-and-roll band or a power pop band playing pop songs. And our goals are still the same: We want people to enjoy these songs and understand the lyrics and have fun, too."

Dickherber's voice is so different, Mentzer says, that the band in recent shows has skipped songs from its first album.

"That's not so much deliberate as it is we have sort of been really, really short on rehearsal," says Mentzer, who expects to add the hits later.

"We literally finished our record and left for tour. ... We just haven't had time to figure out how we're going to approach the old stuff, because [Dickherber's] singing range is pretty different from Eric's. You know, if we're going to do old songs, we're going to have to sort of rework them."

Differences in approach to new music apparently are what caused the split with Dill. In a recent interview with Starry Constellation, an online magazine, Dill said his tastes leaned more toward rock than the band's pop, and other members "resisted working with me on songwriting."

Mentzer says Dill's assessment…
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www.lucidity.com

Time was, if there was nothing on the box, people might be forced to go down the pub and while away their waking hours in studied contemplation of the bottom of a pint pot. Nowadays, with the net bringing folks like The Lucidity Institute into your homes, there's no excuse for being boring and going out. Get the Institute's "SuperNovaDreamer" and be awake while you're asleep.

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Someone has come up with an interesting way of making information held in networks more visually appealing to users, and, hence, supposedly easier for non-computer-nerds to handle. At Map.net a large chunk of the web is mapped out onto a map of Antarctica, effectively showing how such an approach can make for simpler navigation of large quantities of information.

www.musicteachers. co.uk

This is another of the ever-increasing number of the web's targeted databases. It's a useful skills resource site where would- be musicians can track down suitable teachers who are collected according to geographical location and instrument. There is also an database for those dying for a duet, downloadable manuals and exercises, plus a journal, featuring news and information of interest to the music-teaching community.

www.voxangelica.net

Small yet perfectly-formed vignettes of playable Flash scenes, set in…

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