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If you’re still into stealing music — I mean, sampling music that you will eventually pay for — you might want to read up on how the RIAA would actually find you. But if you’re using the honor system, this won’t apply to you, right?
The RIAA maintains a list of songs whose distribution rights are owned by the RIAA’s member organizations. It has given that list to Media Sentry, a company it hired to search for online pirates. That company runs copies of the LimeWire program and performs searches for those copyrighted song titles, one by one, to see if any are being offered by people whose computers are connected to the LimeWire network.
Photo by Christy Bassman.
Thor Christensen of the Dallas Morning News asks: Are cellphones ruining the concert experience? And really, besides “convenience fees” and $4 for a gallon of gas, what isn’t ruining the concert experience these days?
Some big names, of course, chime in on the subject, like Roger Waters and jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. But Carrie Brownstein, guitarist for Sleater-Kinney comments too:
“As a performer, it’s frustrating to look out and see a sea of cellphones instead of faces. There’s definitely a problem where people are so busy documenting the moment that they forget to just live in the moment.”
And when she’s not dancing around selling iPods, Feist talks about cell phones:
“Everyone has this strange archiving addiction now. It’s like they’re trying to pin a butterfly to a corkboard. To me, a gig isn’t supposed to be for posterity,” she says. “It’s supposed to be a bunch of people tossed together in a room, making a mood, and then it’s over. You can’t see the world through a viewfinder.”
Photo by Rick.
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It’s common knowledge that Microsoft is kissing the rear of Universal and other majors by giving them $1 for each Zune sold. Very generous, eh?
Well, they just got a little more generous. And this time, it doesn’t involve one monolithic company pandering to other monolithic companies. Microsoft is going to start paying some indie labels.
I wonder if it’s because Tony Brummel yelled at Bill Gates. We all remember how well that worked out for him when he did it to Steve Jobs.
As if there weren’t enough reasons to despise Microsoft (and want to steal from them, apparently), they’ve pretty much ruined the lives of anyone who bought songs from their now-defunct MSN Music service.
Insert tech-geek mumbo jumbo here. In non-nerd speak, if you upgrade your OS or get a new machine — and if you have a PC, that’ll happen more often than you’d like — access to all MSN-branded music is gone.
The real issue isn’t that Microsoft sucks. It’s that Apple has such a stranglehold on digital music sales that no one else can even dream up a somewhat cohesive strategy and stay with it long enough to avoid completely avoidable problems like this. Not that I’m complaining. I live in an all-Apple household.
[link, Wired]
Josh James, guitarist from Evergreen Terrace, explains how the band is sort of nerdy:
“Some of us are pretty big nerds and we had an actual book club, so we’d read these books weekly. I think that influenced some of the lyric writing and some of the ideas behind Wolfbiker.”
Other nerd-ness after the jump. (more…)
TJ of Still Remains is too nerdy even for MySpace blogs. In summing up their recent tour with Bullet For My Valentine he writes:
This has truely been one of our favorite tours yet. Now its time to cast a level 87 teleport spell that will put us in Australia in 2 days. I cant stand typing these blogs because it takes me away from leveling up in World Of Warcraft with Bone. (only kidding, dont worry)
Other questionable activities by bands like this:
5. Doing anything without a manager present
4. Shooting fireworks at old ladies
3. Pokemon battles on the DS
2. Guitar Hero #35: Meshuggah (actually, that’d be pretty cool)
1. Making out with underage girls
Sean Cannon interviews Marcus Henderson, the main guy who plays all those sweet licks on Guitar Hero I and II.
“… they just asked me to record some stuff. It was supposed to be just a few songs for the game. Then I ended up recording 20 of 30 songs for “Guitar Hero”, half of “Guitar Hero 2″…before you know it, it became one of the most quickly-rising experiences I’ve been a part of.”
David Sease, known for his work in Stretch Arm Strong, has kept busy writing music for Poker Smash [MP3s | trailer], a game for the Xbox LIVE Arcade.
“It was stepping outside of the band,” Sease said. “It was starting from scratch.”
Sease weaves elements of bluegrass, country and folk into “Poker Smash.” He plays mandolin and harmonica and sings on the songs, which were composed with the software program Reason.
Andrea Vadrucci playing along with the Super Mario Bros. 2 soundtrack.
[link, kayinart]
