While the idea found a bit of traction with bands, the startup saw greater potential in taking its core technology and turning it into a platform with a broader appeal, so it went back to the drawing board.
That morning, she heard that One Direction was booked to perform on "The X Factor," and speculation about their arrival gained traction when the band was photographed entering Heathrow Airport at 2 p.m.
Gaul and Rosenberg devised a simple frame that provided traction without rubber bands or complicated connecting pieces.
They gradually lost traction as new bands came along playing better versions of other people's music.
Phoenix, originally from Versailles, France, released its first album in 2000, but it was only with "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" (Glassnote), in 2009, that the band found traction with a mainstream audience.
Particularly at big labels such as Universal, A&R executives increasingly expect acts to have built a self-sustaining, if modest, business before they offer them a recording contract.Large numbers of Facebook friends and Twitter followers help show that a band has traction.
Accordingly, localized failure in solids can be approached by embedding or smearing a traction-based inelastic discontinuity (band) within an (equivalent) elastic matrix along a specific orientation.
Cornerstone provided the venue -- and for several years, as many as 20,000 fans -- to help these bands gain traction in a faith community more often associated with pop praise music.
For one thing, you'd have to be spectacularly generous of spirit not to note that this project has gained this rather ordinary Belgian indie band considerably more traction than they might otherwise have expected.
When I saw the three-pound weights, the thin elastic band, and the traction machine, depression sank in – the sort that I normally use my yoga practice to alleviate.
