If there was a more unlikely success story in 2010 than Lady Antebellum's, we sure can't find it.  Springboarding off their 1.6 million selling 2008 debut album, which generated three big country hits, including the No. 1 single I Run To You, co-lead singers Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott put their patented low-key formula  to work again for last year's megahit Need You Now, the title track of their second album. The song first hit radio in August 2009 and hasn't stopped playing since.

Need You Now is a rarity: a country hit that has leapt across genres, borders, oceans, and, nudged along by the pulsing four-four beats of DJ/remixers, penetrated the traditionally country-free sanctum of the nightclub. It spent five weeks at the top of Billboard's country-singles chart and reached No. 2 on the Hot 100, one spot behind Rihanna's Rude Boy. The song topped Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart for 10 weeks and shattered the record for the most weekly plays in the 14-year history of Adult Top 40/Adult Pop Songs countdown. It was a No. 1 hit in Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Brazil and cracked the Top 5 in more than 20 countries, including France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Israel.

Not bad for a group that strives to be as anonymous as possible. In fact, it's hard to pin Lady A down at all. They're not quite country, pop, or rock. They're neither soft nor hard. They stride the middle ground like they own it—because they do.

And this is exactly what sets Lady Antebellum apart. As pop music cycles through another periodic phase of excess (two words: Lady GaGa), Lady Antebellum's laid-back attitude has become an asset -- the perfect fit for listeners who want simple, tuneful songs delivered with minimum fuss and no information age hoopla.

Lady A are up for six Grammys next month, and they're by far the oddest of the lot. Consider their competition for best-album: Arcade Fire, Eminem, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry; in 2011, Lady Antebellum are the stand-out act: superstars who don't feel the need to come off like superstars.

For a look at some of the Need You Now remixes you need now, click here.

The DN-MC6000 Mixer and MIDI Controller debuts as a four-channel/eight-source standalone digital DJ mixer with MIDI-mapable interface, internal sound card and Denon's promise that the 6000 is anything but an all-in-one toy. Having taken a look at the 6000's many performance options, slim tabletop design, and state-of-the-art solid steel chassis construction, we'd have to agree.

When paired with your software of choice, or used in conjunction with the Traktor LE software included, the DN-MC6000 is poised to be a substantive turnkey control solution for mobile DJs and club DJs, a formidable MIDI-controller of style and substance.
Key features include rack-mountability (with included 19" rackmount accessory kit), a number of on-board MIDI effect controls, durable construction, intuitive layout, dual jog wheels, pitch fader, channel fader, cross fader and much more. The unit's Pitch/Fader/Volume lock function holds the last known Audio value and position until the NULL point is again reached. It's also easy to see where you're headed with the included File browse navigation keys and illuminated rotary encoder file selector knob. Other standout features include a high-quality, high-output headphone amp, independent 3-band Channel EQ with "Kills" (high-mid-low) and various Utility presets to customize user settings.

Other features include:
- New, 3-way powerful audio/video-assignable cross fader (Audio, Audio/Video, Video)
- Newly designed, high-resolution 105-mm touch-sensitive jog wheel
- Smooth 100-mm long pitch slider with high 14-bit resolution
- Eight (4 + 4) hot cue/sampler buttons with dual bank selector key
- Auto loop button with Beat Jump (loop cut)
- Manual loop In/Out buttons
- Large-size Cue & PLAY buttons
- EFX controls, EFX keys and Parameter knobs
- Multiple GUI controls – Mixer, Video, Scratch, Sampler, REC, etc.
- Powerful Shift key – used for various dual-button operations
- Search keys, to advance around within a file
- Denon's legacy "Pitch Bend" keys
- Vinyl and Pitch Bend Jog modes
- SYNC key for beat matching between decks
- Key Lock on/off button with LED confirmation
- and more...

Priced at or around $799.00. Well worth it? Dude, it's Denon.

For more info visit the Denon website.

Success coach Stacy Zemon wants to show you how to harness the power of BIG goals.

"Think of a few business goals that you'd really like to achieve in 2011,"says Zemon, "or a series of manageable, smaller goals that coalesce into something larger. Set priorities, focus on what is really important and keep in mind that commitment and tenacity are key to accomplishing what you've set out to do, and you can win big in 2011!"

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Jack Dorsey, the guy who famously came up with the idea for Twitter, has had another million-dollar brainstorm. It's called Square and with the backing of PayPal exec Keith Rabois it's about to revolutionize the way a lot of business is done.

Square turns smart phones into credit card machines, and is already processing millions of dollars a week in transactions. As you might imagine, Square is targeting small businesses, many of which don't have the means to process credit cards.
Essentially a small magnetic reader that plugs into the headphone jack of an iPhone, Square reads credit and debit card data and converts it into an audio signal. The microphone picks up the audio, sends it through the processors and then routes it to Square's software application on the iPhone.
From there the encrypted data is transmitted using either Wi-Fi (for iPod Touch) or a 3G Internet connection to a backend severs which in turn communicate with the payment networks to complete the transaction.
And you get paid.

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