As always seemed likely, a deal has been hammered together to allow the 2012 and 2013 Coachella festivals to happen . Local residents weren't keen on the festival, but were won over by the revenue it brings. So, 2012 and 2013 are safe. I expect we're looking at another struggle in two years; by that time, the balance may be shifting towards the uppity residents. -- Visit No Rock & Roll Fun to comment, complain and kvetch
Coachella's future is looking a bit wobbly, as The City Of Indio is dragging its collective feet over signing a deal to allow the festival to run in the future. It's not entirely Indio's fault - people in Indio have the sort of problems with festivals most festival neighbours have, but the City has hitherto largely balanced those against the massive revenue the event brings in. Now, though, the next city along, La Quinta, has started to raise objections. It's been developing in the area that runs alongside the festival site over the last [...]
Apologies as this is slightly old news but good news nonetheless! Hotel's awesome track 'Hydra', taken off 2009's Where Hearts Go Broke , recently featured in the MTV Network comedy Awkward . The track aired on Episode 2 to be exact which can be viewed in full here by US residents. The track is also a featured stream and download at MTV so if don't already own this slice of pop genius then head there to grab it .
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What if the only part of your set that audiences love you for is your kickass cover of that Margot and the Nuclear So and So's (pictured) song? What if it's super spectacular, and it becomes your claim to fame, and one day Margot and the Nuclear So and So's find out - and everything you ever earned from every CD sale is taken away, and you're thrown into a miserable prison cell to spend years in isolation and torture, only to leave and find your life in tatters, recoiling from sunlight and unable to ever fit into society again? [...]
It makes perfect sense when you think about it - performance enhancing music and sport. Check it all out as Apricot Rail's stunning track 'The Parachute Failure' soundtracks a Foxtel ad for the upcoming Commonwealth Games. You'd swear they'd written it with Matt Shirvington in mind after viewing. Next the Olympics! Watch the video here and stream Apricot Rail's debut album here . Apricot Rail - The Parachute Failure Apricot Rail - The Parachute Failure
Someone always gets snubbed. Despite launching the careers of many musicians, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences doesn't hand out Emmys for music supervision. If the songs featured on a show were previously recorded or created without the show in mind, they don't count. No original score? No dice. Music purists side with the Academy, and for reasons fair enough. But even if music supervision is the red-headed step child of the Nielsen family, there's no denying the lucrative exchange between music and television. So which shows score high with music fans? [...]
Brighton's Freebutt, which was taken into fan-ownership a year ago, is locked in what might prove to be a battle to the death. Despite having fitted a noise limiter, the venue is still upsetting its neighbours ; they have complained to the council and now Brighton And Hove are telling the 'butt to keep things more quiet, or lose their licence. A Brighton and Hove City Council spokesman said it did not want the venue to shut but that residents' right to peace was "sacrosanct". Sacrosanct, eh? That's an interesting principle the [...]
Perhaps the least of his worries tonight, but Gordon Brown's been accused to being part of an event which breached licensing laws . The one with the Elvis impersonator: A performance at the weekend by Brighton-based Elvis impersonator Mark Wright took place at Lodge Park Technology College in Corby as part of a lunchtime speech given by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. But, according to the [Live Music Foundation], the move contravened the council's own rules because the venue's premises licence only allows entertainment from 6pm until midnight. Corby council say that it was [...]
I'm fully expecting to see a forthcoming episode of The Apprentice where Alan Sugar puts his hapless contestants in charge of running EMI for two days. Surely, surely, that would be the only explanation for the insane decision coming from the crumbling edifice ? EMI is in talks to mortgage its back catalogue of music recordings in a last-ditch attempt to solve its mounting cash crisis. The group is offering rival labels the chance to manage its North American catalogue business, which includes tracks by The Beatles and Blondie, for a five-year period. [...]
If you're generous, you'd call it liberalisation, anyway. It's more correcting some of their gung-ho legislation; the idea being that indoor, evening gigs with less than 100 people attending would be exempt from needing a license . Let's hope they expedite this, and it doesn't get lost when parliament prorogues.
After yesterday's story where the PRS grudgingly admitted demanding a licence for a shopworker who sang might be a little over-the-top, a bigger slap has come to the PRS from the Copyright Tribunal . The tribunal has judged that hikes in royalty rates charged to shops in 2005 were excessive: The 2005 increases resulted in some retailers suffering a doubling of costs overnight. One fashion retailer's bill rose from £176,000 to £408,000 per year and a tile chain's from £25,000 to £73,000. The ruling should save retailers £5m a year and lead to [...]
Damn right that the PRS should be apologising to a shopworker who they hassled for a licence because she was singing while she worked: She told the BBC news website: "I would start to sing to myself when I was stacking the shelves just to keep me happy because it was very quiet without the radio. "When I heard that the PRS said I would be prosecuted for not having a performance licence, I thought it was a joke and started laughing. "I was then told I could be fined [...]
Hidden Shoal Licensing (HSL), the official licensing arm of the Hidden Shoal Recordings label, is set to launch in November 2009. While the label is already involved in a number of projects, ranging from film sync through to jukebox licensing, Hidden Shoal is excited to be formalising the public face for its licensing activities. HSL comprises the constantly growing catalogue of over 600 tracks from the critically acclaimed Hidden Shoal Recordings music label. This wonderful selection of music covers a broad spectrum of sounds and styles, from filmic ambient instrumentals through to inventive indie rock and [...]
I yield to nobody in my admiration of Neil Tennant, but a grumbly interview about why Top of The Pops isn't on any more and people "stealing" music makes him sound like something out of a different era. Mind you, the BBC News site suggests that Tennant has "slammed" the corporation, which is perhaps putting it a bit strongly: He added he thought as part of the BBC's public broadcasting, the corporation should be keeping its "astonishing archive" of musical footage up-to-date. "[That is] why we like the BBC, because they do [...]
Citizen Cope - "Let the Drummer Kick" Citizen Cope is the pseudonym of Clarence Greenwood. off his self-titled debut LP in 2002, "Let the Drummer Kick" is a good example of how solid music will remain relevant. synched on So You Think You Can Dance , an Acura commercial and many others 6+ years after it was released, Greenwood is clearly an early proponent of the licensing that so many today seek. is that a bad thing? as Iggy Pop puts it, "If people want to use my songs to sell sausages, that's [...]
Freakonomics looks, ever so slightly , at the price of marriage. It's decrease with the dismissal of syphallitic blood tests have led to a 6% increase in marriages since 1980. And yet, it's no secret that divorce rates are up (due to any number of factors but mostly to the lack of stigma surrounding divorce now). Although, they aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be. "A very neat new study allows one to use the differential timing of the repeal of blood-test laws to infer what the [...]
Photography by Katrina Oh the adventures one has when going to the DMV, or as it's known in Ohio... the B MV (the "B" is for bureau or butt-fucked or bukakke.... oh, I don't know and I don't care). Like death, taxes, and pooping your pants, it's a guarantee in life , an inevitability that something, SOMETHING, will go wrong. So me, after 5 years in the big O-H (I-O), with my Florida driver's license finally expiring Friday, accepted the fact that I'm [...]
Kleenbeats is now accepting submissions from artists for licensing representation. They are looking to expand their artist base and music library with some fresh new talent. Recently, Kleenbeats has placed music with clients such as Billabong Australia, Rip Curl international, Quicksilver international, Von zipper, Element, Kustom, The Crusty Demons, Fuel TV, Foster's Lager, The AFL, and many others. They are seeking artists from all genres and styles. Artists retain 100% of the royalties earned and 100% ownership of the submitted song, Kleenbeats only charges half the synchronization fee as payment. This is a great opportunity for artists to [...]
Music Pirate Last week i was introduced to a couple of websites that are disturbingly good at what they do. Someone innocently emailed them to an industry email list i am on asking for people's thoughts on their legality. I commented first and was the recipient of a hellstorm of comments from people defending these website's existence. The websites: TuneNabber.com and ClipNabber.com are just what they sound like. Tune Nabber allows a user to enter the URL of any streaming audio/video content and "nabbs" it by making a [...]
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