Blog: a quiet revolution

Radio3 Player Is Now Embeddable The autoplay feature [on EVERY music site/service] needs to, pardon the language, fuck off. What do you think the odds are that I, music loving fanatic I am, have music playing already as many others would as well? Huge pet peeve with MySpace as well as Radio3 - if there`s a [...]

Radio3 Player Is Now Embeddable The autoplay feature [on EVERY music site/service] needs to, pardon the language, fuck off. What do you think the odds are that I, music loving fanatic I am, have music playing already as many others would as well? Huge pet peeve with MySpace as well as Radio3 - if there`s a [...]

CBC Radio3's coverage of east coast act's as of late has been plentiful Jill Barber and Two Hours Traffic both had Radio3 Sessions released While there was an interview with Brent Randall when he was on tour recently. New Brunswick's Monoxides were selected for the song of the day last Thursday - great story for that selection. And I [...]

Music critic/writer Jim DeRogatis writing for the Chicago Sun-Times has two pieces that have caught my attention. Last month he wrote on a piece on the end of Punk Planet - a Chicago based institution for the past 13 years which published its last issue for August. "It's not our intent to edit political comments in [...]

Music critic/writer Jim DeRogatis writing for the Chicago Sun-Times has two pieces that have caught my attention. Last month he wrote on a piece on the end of Punk Planet - a Chicago based institution for the past 13 years which published its last issue for August. "It's not our intent to edit political comments in [...]

Cook County judge sets Sept. 17 trial date for R. Kelly - Chicago Tribune I had simply thought/expected that this whole case had been thrown out/dropped/what have you. He certainly has not let such charges slow his career down: In the meantime, Kelly, who won a Grammy in 1997 for "I Believe I Can Fly," has been [...]

A draft of the 2007 Music Sector Strategy has been made available for feedback. Music Nova Scotia will be accepting comments to sectorstrategy@musicnovascotia .ca no later than 5 pm Monday August 20th. READ THIS NOW: Download MNS Sector Strategy (PDF) The previous strategy was responsible for programs that have assisted NUMEROUS bands, companies and individuals within the [...]

We`ll be blogging from the event on a daily basis once it kicks off and leading up to (during perhaps) we`ll be featuring interviews from acts performing. Should all be fun!!! LAUNCH PARTY The festival will hold its official launch party on Saturday, September 22 at St. Matthew's Church. The show will feature performances from math [...]

Why Does The RIAA Hate Webcasters? Webcasters Don't Play Very Much RIAA Music - TechDirt 87% of the music you hear on the radio is from an RIAA-member record label. However, when it comes to music on webcasts, the story is quite different. Jon Healy, at the LA Times, points out that only 44% of music [...]

German Prosecutors Tell Entertainment Industry They Won't Help Going After P2P Users - TechDirt We've never quite understood why in the US and some other countries, a civil matter between businesses and their customers should require help from public law enforcement....Public prosecutors in Germany are apparently telling entertainment industry lawyers that they won't help the industry [...]