When he was alive, Bill Graham had a framed note hanging in his office, that someone had sent him when the Fillmore West closed in 1971.
It read, “Bill Graham may be an asshole, but he gave me some of the best years of my life.”
The guy who wrote it obviously had his tongue in his [...]
There’s a press release on Apple’s website that clarifies the just-announced “Complete My Album” offer. It’s not due to expire on June 26, as my previous post indicated. Instead, it appears to be a permanent iTunes feature. The June 26 deadline is for all previously purchased songs - the date represents 180 [...]
I caught word of the excellent Royalty Week interview with Digital Media Association Executive Director Jonathan Potter via Radio and Internet News. RAIN reported on DiMA’s response to the CRB decision; Potter’s take is exactly the same as mine:
I think the marketing departments and the promotions departments at the record companies are at war [...]
I’m an avid iTunes customer who’s been making purchases since the first week the service went live. I typically buy more albums than songs.
When I buy an advance track from an unreleased CD, I usually wind up paying more for the complete release. That’s very frustrating.
For example, I bought two tracks [...]
The music industry’s blanket lawsuit habit may soon backfire, says ARS Technica’s Eric Bangeman in a recent post. RIAA typically requests that actions against accused file-traders be “dismissed without prejudice” - this means that lawsuit defendants have no recourse against what are often frivolous cases. Some of them have recently asked that [...]
I thought the idea of music delivery via mobile phone was cool until I saw the price tag. Whoever dreamed up this business must have been looking back with greedy eyes at the compact disc’s birth. In 1983, no one gave a second thought to paying twice the price of a vinyl album [...]
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There’s nothing like seeing your town on the big screen, and for many in attendance at the “Live Free Or Die” premiere Monday night at the Claremont Cinema, that was the main draw. It isn’t for all tastes; there are more F-bombs in the film’s 90 minutes than a lot of [...]
There’s nothing like seeing your town on the big screen, and for many in attendance at the “Live Free Or Die” premiere tonight at the Claremont Cinema, that was the only draw. It isn’t a film for all tastes, and the old-timers sat patiently through moref F-bombs in 90 minutes than they’d probably [...]
Leave it to Canada to bring some clarity to the ongoing U.S. copyright debate. McGill University in Montreal hosted a “Digital Dystopia” seminar last week. The money quote swirling around the Internets is, of course, Bruce Lehman’s - “I’m afraid our Clinton Administration policies didn’t work out very well,” said the architect of [...]
If this song’s title is true, then I’m truly bummed - I can barely understand what Marnie Stern is singing. But “Every Single Line Means Something” is punchy, aggressive pop, a three minute and forty second tantrum that gets more addictive with every listen.
Marnie’s got Rage Against The Machine’s slash-and-burn guitar ethics, paired with [...]
