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Reviewing reviewers isn’t really the norm around these parts; I’m not a music news blogger or someone who tends to reblog things. However, one of the people I’m following over at my Tumblr blog (now my personal blog) pointed me in the direction of this compelling look at the importance of Isaac Hayes to the history of soul music. Written by Andy Gill, it’s an incredibly relevant and insightful look at why the successes of Isaac Hayes’s inventions paved the way for the careers of many others whom we consider to be the greatest performers in soul music and hip-hop. Take a minute to go read this article. (Independent.Co.Uk; HT The Rich Girls are Weeping)
In a quite fair, though surprisingly swift and wide-reaching manner, much has been made of Justin Vernon’s songwriting and of his band, Bon Iver. Their remarkable EP For Emma, Forever Ago, is an album so simple and subtle in its beauty that it could end up lost in the shuffle of your playlist. We are so fortunate that from this small voice has come one of 2008’s most beloved recordings. If your heart was ever broken and you knew it, Justin’s falsetto overtones and wrenchings of lost love spoke to you at a time when you needed to hear them. And like magic, Bon Iver has become the little band from Wisconsin who could.
Oblige the kind folks at Daytrotter, then, with a visit to their site to listen to Bon Iver’s particularly looming discontent that is all throughout their wonderful Daytrotter Session today.
Bon Iver - Flume (Daytrotter Session)
To get the rest of these wonderful tracks, head over to Daytrotter by clicking here.
So listen, Ye. First off, I would bet you don’t read blogs and, most likely, you don’t read mine. That’s okay with me. I am just another fucking fan out there who lost his cool after being up all night. I was tired and cranky last week. I want to apologize for being a dick. I admit that my comments were pretty harsh on you about what went down at Bonnaroo. I sent my Idolator update on the morning after it happened, four or five hours sleep after the fact, so I was still pretty stung about the delays and all that. Not that it probably matters to you, but I wasn’t trying to get in the “‘Ye Hater” line.
But I didn’t understand what caused all the drama last Sunday morning and, a week later, we still don’t know for sure. You haven’t said anything about it, and I’m surprised.
Ok, trip this: the mash up is not effing dead, ok? See, I know nothing about DJ Skeet Skeet but he emailed me this tight mash-up this morning that I figured some of you would probably be ready to get down on. His Royal Skeetness reps the 310, is a real thug, plays electro, and (I’m just guessing) loves french fries dipped in tartar sauce as much as the next person. If you read this blog, you people know that I’m down for whatever usually. So you know I’ll crank this track up when we tearing up the club in Memphis. It’s a mashup of Shop Boyz’s explosive hit rap song “Party Like A Rockstar” and Spacehog’s one hit wonderism “In The Meantime”. Can you dig it? Yes you can.
DJ Skeet Skeet - Party Like A Rockstar (DJ Skeet Skeet’s Totally Dude! Megamix)
Also, here’s an hour-long mixtape my man’s hooked you up with. I haven’t peeped it, but something tells me it might be pop-n-fresh.
Hour Long Mix from DJ Skeet Skeet
You can kick it with DJ Skeet Skeet over at Eat Skeet by clicking that damn lank right char
We already know that Webcasters small and large are outraged at the prospect of having to pay higher royalty fees to the music industry, particularly when compared with what is required of their satellite and terrestrial radio counterparts.
But the heightened royalty rates enacted by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board earlier this year and scheduled to take effect July 15 are not the only thing that’s firing up leading Internet radio industry companies like RealNetworks, Yahoo, Pandora and Live365.
In letters distributed to various Capitol Hill offices on Thursday morning, the four companies’ CEOs argue that the music industry will also be forcing collection of more than $1 billion per year from three services alone–Yahoo, RealNetworks and Pandora–in the name of covering so-called administrative costs.
Here’s how they say they derived that figure: When the CRB decided earlier this year to change the rules for Internet broadcasters, it also decided to levy a $500 minimum annual fee per Internet radio “channel.” SoundExchange, the non-profit music industry entity that collects the royalty and other fees on behalf of record labels, says that minimum payment is supposed to cover administrative costs.
But since some of the larger Internet radio services potentially offer their listeners hundreds of thousands of unique “channels” (RealNetworks’ Rhapsody offered more than 400,000 in 2006 alone, according to a company spokesman), the companies view the ruling as forcing them to multiply that mandatory minimum payment accordingly (for Real, that would amount to $200 million).
Such an amount would far outpace the $20 million in total royalty fees collected by SoundExchange from the Internet radio industry last year, the CEOs note in their letter. And besides, it’s not even clear that those payments would go to artists, as royalty payments do, the companies argue.
“While we don’t imagine SoundExchange would keep this $1 billion all to itself, this lack of clarity is absurd,” RealNetworks spokesman Matt Graves told CNET News.com.
SoundExchange did not respond to requests for comment.
Thursday’s letter is just the latest step by the Internet radio industry to combat the CRB ruling. An alliance of commercial Webcasters and National Public Radio has already asked a federal appeals court for an emergency halt to the CRB’s decision, which is currently scheduled to take effect July 15. They’re hoping politicians will move quickly to enact legislation that would overturn the new requirements and level Internet radio royalty rates with those required of satellite radio providers.
Suggested Reading:
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/09/1651202
original article from CNET News
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Loudersoft decided that Black Friday sales would be fun. Off we go into the wild black yonder searching for Easy Bake Ovens and DVD players. WORD.
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Until the end of the year, I’m asking artists from various bands to hijack my Hipcast to do whatever they want to do — call in a song, talk about a party, share a conference call with us, whatever you want to do. In this edition of the Hipcast Hijack, Tim from Airpushers took this thing for a test drive while he and Printz (the other half of Airpushers) prove their globetrotting skills as they cruise around the world on tour with the inimitable Fergie. Today’s hipcast finds Tim down in Brazil. Short but sweet, you get the idea.
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Mary Timony proved why she is one of the most revered independent recording artists making music today in a stellar performance at the Hiro Ballroom for the Kill Rock Stars party. A little live audio follows.
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