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summer house concerts
I’ve just update my house concerts web site with details for three shows: Libbie Schrader, July 30 [RSVP] Sam Shaber, August 27 [RSVP] Edie Carey and Anne Heaton, September 18 [RSVP] Libbie is the former frontwoman for Pantene Pro-Voice winners Think of England. She’s opened foe Poe, Jewel and Rusted Root. Her music has been …
harcourt in NYT
They call him The Star Maker of the Semipopular. Groan.
CRIA gets bitch-slapped, lies about it
Everyone’s favourite Canadian law professor Michael Geist calls attention to the recent Federal Court of Appeal decision on file sharing. Graham Henderson of the CRIA says: The judge has determined that uploading, downloading, it’s illegal. But, wait! It’s not true: Actually, the court did no such thing. Concluding its copyright discussion at paragraph 54, the …
UPV caves in to spanish recording industry
Jorge Cortell, who had taught at Polytechnic University of Valencia UPV in Spain for five years was forced to resign after the Dean caved in to pressure from the Spanish Recording Industry Association and the MPAA.
CBGBs t-shirts explained
from wikipedia, of course: CBGB, also CBGB’s or CB’s is a legendary club in the Manhattan Bowery district of New York City, New York. The full name is CBGB OMFUG which stands for “Country, Bluegrass, and Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers”.
CMU prof tells RIAA off
Cary Sherman weasled an op-ed out of the Post-Gazette where he spread the usual BS. CMU Professfor of Computer Science and art Roger Dannenberg told the RIAA where to go: Mr. Sherman, you say that stealing “is not OK,” and yet I have musician friends who cannot get RIAA members to pay them the royalties …
heather combs kicks ass
heather combs had a gig at the hotel saturday night. they were impressed: Somewhere between the new songs and the old favorites she was strumming so strong that the G string went flying. Noticing that, the crowd came alive encouragingly clapping to the conclusion of the song. Then, to the amazement of everyone, in one …
vienna teng wows ’em
Vienna Teng played the Ann Arbor Folk Festival. They liked her. A lot: By the end of her quietly breathtaking 20-minute set that night, she was a star. “We got up there and the response was just stunning, overwhelming, really,” said Teng, who brings her hushed, meditative, piano-based songcraft to The Ark for two shows …
MGM v. Grokster, in 30 seconds
Michael Weiss, CEO of Morpheus: A victory for StreamCast will ensure that Americans won’t have to live in a society where every file is fingerprinted, every user is tagged, every search is monitored and every result is filtered.