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Popular Music News Blog
http://musicspoppy.buzzword.com/
- Author: Pogol
- Listed in: Music News & Media
- Tags: music Rock pop popular
- Added on: Aug 13th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Hand-picked most interesting news from popular music world, commented by author of the blog.
Recent Posts
Artists Aren’t Starving Because of Piracy
In the age of digital media, piracy runs rampant. It is now as easy to share music or a movie as it is to share an idea. So in recent years, we’ve been fed (dis)information about copyright laws. ???Think of the artists??? we’re told. If y...
Podcasters stage cancer benefit using “First of May” by Jonathan Coulton
As a benefit for the family of Joe Murphy, a podcaster and XM Radio personality who passed away on April 1st, a group of podcasters spearheaded by Paul Fischer and Phil Rossi have created a Creative Commons-licensed version of Jonathan Coulton’...
White Stripes Announce Icky New Album
They’re baaaaack! The White Stripes announced on their website late last night that their sixth album, which bears the excellently bizarre title of Icky Thump, will be released “as soon as corporately possible.” That was the most po...
Wil Wheaton’s Geek in Review: Sound Salvation
This effort to wipe out independent online radio has nothing to do with protecting artists, and everything to do with protecting a status quo that supports a very few top 40 acts at the expense of everyone else. In their effort to protect their outda...
RIAA Petitions Judges to Lower Artist Royalties
Aggressively litigious group has claimed to protect musicians in the past. Now believes musicians deserve less for “innovative” music distribution. The writers of the songs get royalty checks from ASCAP or BMI or SESAC. The perofrmers of...
