19 posts tagged “music”
Judge: Big webcasters owe songwriters millions in royalties
By Nate Anderson | Published: May 01, 2008 - 12:39PM CT
A federal judge has just set the rate to be paid for a blanket music license by Yahoo, AOL, and RealNetworks. The three companies could owe songwriters as much as $100 million over seven years as payment for streaming their songs on the web. As the Rolling Stones once noted, "You can't always get what you want," but the songwriters seem to done have all right for themselves this time around.
Take care of any music you have on your account. It's only a matter of time until ASCAP comes looking here. I will as soon as I get a chance this weekend.
Was nice while it lasted, wasn't it?
Can someone ban me from Amazon for a week or so?
Can someone else get me a big ass iPod? I think my 8gb is going to get a bit cumbersome.
Audio: Share a song with powerful lyrics.
If you're fortunate enough not to have any "dirt" in your life, you might not get this song. Dirt being issues, our past, things we escaped, things we are still trying to escape, what we survived... All this stuff that is really hard to think about, almost excruciating. I would like to think I've gotten past all that.
Maybe tomorrow TPTB will let me upload some more.
Show us your favorite album cover.
Audio: Share a song you could listen to all day on repeat.
I will say this much: the local radio station I listen to here seems to be going through an audio depression. I hear the same unimaginative shit every day. Here's a few songs I must hear a few times whenever I think about 'em. Out of the many, many, many, I love.
What were your top 10 favorite songs or albums of 2007?
Unkle, War: Broken featuring Gavin Clark
Yeah yeah yeah, IsIs: Rockers to Swallow.
Queens of the Stone Age, Era Vulgaris: 3's & 7's
Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero: The Great Destroyer
M.I.A., Kala: Hussel
The Killers, Sawdust: Shadowplay
Kaiser Chiefs, Yours Truly, Angry Mob: The Angry Mob
Gorillaz, D-Sides: Rockit/We Are Happy Landfill
Chemical Brothers, We Are The Night: All Rights Reversed
The Bravery, The Sun and The Moon: Above and Below.
Honorable mentions: KT Tunstall, The Fratellis, Chevelle. (I just haven't listened to these as much as I have the above)
Do you tend to like music in particular genres, or are your tastes all over the place? What are your most and least favorite musical genres?
You tell me: http://www.last.fm/user/agentbouche
Audio: Share a song you just can't stand.
So, what are the chances that I own or will strive to find a link to a song I can't stand?
Audio: Show us a song or album you've recently downloaded.
I don't download a lot of music. I'm very fond of cds and having a "hard copy" as a back up.
There's a few other songs I dig on this. She's partnered up with people from Delerium and some other electronic band I can't recall for some reason...
Springsteen's releasing a new studio album this week and Dylan's releasing a greatest hits compilation. Which do you prefer from a legend: new material or time-honored classics?
I really could care less for both, therefor, I wouldn't mind them retiring... Springsteen became really hard to endure after a few albums post Born in the USA. My sister and I would find ourselves laughing at his lyrics and even though I'm sure he's gotten better, I just really would rather not hear it. With Dylan? Uh. I have never understand a lyric that man sang but I love the remakes made of his stuff. Sorry!
Other artists? If the quality suffers with the *new* - stick to the old but don't rerecord, just tour. I feel that way about a lot of classic artists. It's sad to see them go through the post career crisis by being *fresh* and *hip* while coming off as kitschy and pretentious.
I'm mean... But I'm honest.
