XM and Sirius are the two companies in the U.S that offer quality satellite radio service. XM, the forerunner of satellite radio has 2 satellites, Rock and Roll, and has 2 satellite radio studios in Washington D.C. which reaches all of its 3,200,000 subscribers. Sirius Radio, XM's current competitor, has 3 satellites, studios in NY and has 1,100,000 subscribers.

There is no question about it; satellite radio is far superior to the landlocked radio stations. This new generation of radio, with its digital quality and unlimited content, makes AM/FM radio look ancient in comparison. Satellite radio has incredible advantages that regular radio stations can only hope to offer.

Satellite radio is completely commercial free. That means no annoying jingles, no listening interruptions, no stupid voice actors, and no one trying to sell you something you couldn't possibly need. Satellite radio offers you the ability to, not only listen to what you want, (Jazz, Country, Hip Hop, R&B, Classical, Do Wop, Dance, Electronica, Latin, Blues, House, Rock, Alternative, Contemporary, Christian, or Gospel), but you can also listen to it where you want. In your car, your house, your yacht, your tent, and even your bus ride downtown. You can listen to you local weather, traffic alerts, news, sports, and entertainment, or national weather, traffic, news, sports and entertainment. It's like being omnipresent and omniscient at once! Satellite radio is also completely uncensored. That means that you can listen to your favorite comic or rap without having to figure out it behind the bleeps.

The content is the only thing that sets satellite radio apart from its terrestrial buddy; it also has digital, CD quality sound. AM/FM radio cannot offer that without having to put up a transmitter every few miles. Your satellite receiver also has information on songs and artists right on the read out so you can best select what you want to listen to. It's all about your choice! Where, what, when, and how! Do you feel like a god yet?

Both XM and Sirius are amazing satellite radio providers, which one you choose to listen to will be up to you. Since they each offer such great programming, the choice will be difficult. There are 3 different types of receivers, depending on where you want to use it. The plug-and-play tuner is used primarily outdoors as long as the portable boom box can receive the satellite signal. There are also tuners made specifically for cars, and tuners made for use at home.

In the future, XM and Sirius radio will be offering satellite video. Look for this at the end of 2006.

Satellite radio prices start at $70 dollars, with an additional $12.95 per month. Be on the lookout for discounts and lifetime subscription offers.

Are you often amazed how professional disc jocks spin their disks and produce sounds with beats that makes the club people hit the dance floor and groove to their sounds? Well, with a knack for creating professional-sounding beats and a computer, you can become a DJ and make your own techno music without using expensive software programs or needing a band.

Basically, there are two forms of techno music: mash-ups and bootlegs. Mash-up is mixing up two different tracks and adding other music elements into a one single track. Bootlegs are an unauthorized recording of an artist's performance and adding sound enhancements and doing some sound engineering. You can take hip hop songs and mix with club music. You can simply make your own techno music by using beat making software. You can explore various sound mixes and save each of it into different audio files. And if it happens, you might create a techno beat that will be a hit, and you can sell it for tons and tons of dollars.

Your road to become a successful professional techno music creator has now become simpler. If you are a beginner and quite unsure where to begin to make your own techno music, you can purchase inexpensive techno music software and try it for yourself. You can analyze the music you have created with the software and then create twists to make the music better.

The problem is finding the best software to make techno music. There are many out there and I have tried most of them.

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Leave - Shortwave Fade "Be aware of this band...they are going to conquer the music scene!" - Eardrums Music Fifteen years of hard work is how I'd describe Shortwave Fade. These grafters from Leicester in the East Midlands of England have just released their debut single 'Leave' on ITunes.

Shortwave Fade are tipped by many top music industry professionals to be the next big thing. If their latest single is anything to go by, they'll be kicking their way up the download chart in no time at all. Band members Chris Holloway and Ben Allen first met at school and shared an interest in making music. Later Robb Shepherd and Rich Herrington joined and added a further layer of depth to the band.

They've been around for a while too, and supporting bands like Keane on tour shows they're no small biscuits. Shortwave Fade's singer/guitarist Chris Holloway described them as 'an Indie-Electronica band from Leicester, influenced by Soulwax and Radiohead' on Steve Lamacq's BBC Radio 6 'Unsigned Bands'. Lamacq went on to play Shortwave Fade's debut single 'Leave' on air, giving the band that extra plug they needed only days before the single's launch. And the band are not alone, they've got the help of Gavin Monaghan who produced both The Editors and The Twang. Their latest single 'Leave', is a haunting combination of indie lyrics and electronica wizardry. An attacking beat, combined with Holloway's soulful lyrics gives the song an edgy quality that never allows the listener to get fully comfortable.

Always full of surprises, Leave has the pumping energy, eerie sounds and catchy lyrics that turn an unsigned band into class act. Shortwave Fade took part in a competition to win £15,000 to produce their album. They trounced the other bands to steal the prize and set about producing their album Deletia, due for release in early 2009. Shortwave Fade is having a single (and album pre-launch) party at the Notting Hill Arts Club in London on September 13th. They're also touring, check out their MySpace to get gig dates.