Jay Z/Alicia Keys Do “Empire State of Mind” @ City Hall!
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Music Pick: Unbalance by 2562
Just discovered this album via Pop Matters and downloaded it immediately. Seamlessly good electronica albums are extremely rare. On the go, it’s an instant walk through Soho/TribeCa, wherever you are. If working late, it’s the perfect soundtrack to keep the creative juices flowing without putting you to sleep. It’s centuries ahead of it’s time. Nice [...]
RIAA to Stop Suing Users
The Wall Street Journal reports that the RIAA has decided to change its strategy of suing users directly, to getting Internet Service Providers to police file sharing. More here.
RIAA Kills Yet Another Music Platform
Techcrunch just reported that yet another online music sharing service, Mixwit, is going out of business.
In the book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, Lawrence Lessig describes big media’s attempts to, not just increase its overall footprint, but to ensure that its content is the only content. By essentially bribing [...]
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?: Depression, Hope, and Anger
“Depression, hope, and anger” are the words that Rob Kapilow, author of the new book “All You Have to Do is Listen: Music From the Inside Out,” uses to describe the thematic structure of the tune “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” from the 1932 musical New Americana. The song was one of the top songs [...]
