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Technology and indie music is a wonderful thing these days. Bands like Glamour Kings are taking full advantage of the current musical trends and the wide variety of listeners worldwide ready to download their tracks to their iPods and MP3 players.
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March 12, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Audio 2 Riot. Internet musician and the Bay Area independent music community's OWN Patrick Lew's new Solo Musician project and Alternative to CREATING music in Band of Asians. This also SPELLS a Band of Asians hiatus. More details inside. ( Uh, more info than we needed, Patrick...- ed.)
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March 11, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Angelakis said: "It's one member of the commission that we have issues with. It's really too bad."
The Darbuki Kings are having a lot of fun with their new release Lawrence of Suburbia. The two European looking gentlemen on the cover of the CD are actually Antonio H. Albarran (Laouto, Bouzouki & Sitar Guitar) and Robin Adnan Anders (Tabla, Tabla Beladi, Tars, Rigg, Dabola, Muzhar, Zills, Guitarron, Strings, Kanun).
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March 10, 2008 at 8:03 AM
If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?
Rep. Berman (D-CA) has removed the controversial section 104 from his PRO-IP Act. That section would have multiplied the already excessive statutory damages for infringement in the case of compilations, making the damages for infringing upon the copyrights of a single average CD rise into the millions of dollars. This change cam...
There's a recurring theme (I think they're called "memes" now) that there is some sort of risk involved in creating music. Today alone, I encountered "Why should a musician bear the cost and the risk of creating music with no expectation of a return on their investment?" and the equally nonsensical, "Songwriters are shielded fro...
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March 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM
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March 8, 2008 at 6:39 AM
A year ago today, the Recording Industry Association of America launched a new campaign against on-campus file-sharing. There was a mass mailing to college presidents, some public service announcements, and most importantly, 400 prelitigation settlement letters mailed to 13 universities. Ars spoke to RIAA president Cary Sherman ...
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March 5, 2008 at 8:47 AM
Lou Pearlman, the man behind boy bands 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, is set to plead guilty to a $300m fraud scheme, prosecutors have said.(note: Karl Rove is NOT his twin brother. Also, I attended a Paul Simon concert as his guest once - ed.)
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March 5, 2008 at 6:55 AM
Readers will no doubt be shocked to hear that the RIAA works for its own self-interest, but a recent Public Knowledge piece suggests that the organization is being more than usually self-interested in two current debates. On the one hand, the major labels think that webcasters should pay a flat rate for every track streamed, eve...
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March 5, 2008 at 5:44 AM
By Eric Bangeman | Published: March 04, 2008 - 12:23PM CT
One of the contested P2P cases we've been following is Atlantic Records v. Jeffery Howell, which is being heard in a federal court in Phoenix. Howell and his wife have been representing themselves so far, but are going to get a bit of high-profile help tomorrow. EFF st...
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March 5, 2008 at 5:41 AM
Nine Inch Nails has uploaded their latest record onto one of the world's most controversial file-sharing websites – The Pirate Bay.
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March 5, 2008 at 4:40 AM
A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out...
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March 5, 2008 at 1:34 AM
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March 4, 2008 at 1:35 PM
A note from Dmusic's CTO - Lawrence Greenberg, (justanotherclue)
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March 3, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Yet another exciting day as DM's own Dan Sindel's Symphonic Guitars earn a write up in the granddaddy of them all, "GUITAR PLAYER" Magazines' April 2008 issue.
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March 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM
George, horsie might be dead already, but we's gonna pound it and pound till there's nuthin' left! :) --Shmoo
Shelby Lynne rants about the virtues of vinyl at Huff Post.
Apparently, Boycott-RIAA is now finally on the new server and connected again with DMusic's news threads. (Kudos to those who made it happen!) - Use THIS thread for posting quick links you find from around the web that are of interest to both the DMusic and Boycott-RIAA communities.
MAXIM magazine is still under fire today, despite issuing an apology for publishing a negative review of the Black Crowes' new album by a writer who hadn't even listened to the whole CD.
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March 1, 2008 at 3:18 PM
