Lynne Kiesling So I’ve really been enjoying The Police tour and rediscovering the joy I find in their music. Here’s an article from the Guardian last week about the band, in 1978 and today, by a writer who has traveled with the band and written about them then and now. Of all the articles I’ve …
Michael Giberson I stumbled across the Home of the Groove blog some months back. It turned out to be a great place to delve deeper into New Orleans funk and R&B and related musicality. And recently, the Home of the Groove has sprouted its own internet radio station running a 10-hours and growing playlist of …
Lynne Kiesling Reason’s Jeff Taylor has written an article that gives some insight into the history and motivation behind the current listener-based royalty rates that will go into effect on Sunday, unless a last-minute compromise occurs. Turns out digital is not perfect. Digital can be crap. And a perfect digital copy of perfect crap is …
Lynne Kiesling Seeing the Police at Wrigley Field last week has reinvigorated my too-long dormant fascination with Stewart Copeland. And I’m not alone; Sun-Times music critic Jim DeRogatis turns out to be the same age as I am, and to have had similar behavior when attending Police concerts the first time around: I first saw …
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Lynne Kiesling Thursday was a gorgeous day in Chicago; a bit humid, but it was still an amazing evening for The Police concert. Overall I thought it was a fantastic show, and unlike Greg Kot at the Tribune, I was perfectly happy with the start of the show (“Message In A Bottle”) and the fact …
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Lynne Kiesling Want to listen to your favorite Internet radio today, like Soma FM or WOXY? You can’t; they are silent. This is what we can expect permanently if the proposed Internet royalty rates, which discriminate against non-broadcast, online-only stations, take effect in mid-July. Soma FM and WOXY are participating in Save Internet Radio’s Day …
Lynne Kiesling I am off to my old stomping grounds for a few days of KP Spouse family reunion, and seeing some of my old colleagues and friends. To plant a seed for discussion upon my return, here’s an event that I’ve been thinking about a lot in the past few days: Lala, which started …
Think About This: New Music Business Model From Lala Read More »
Michael Giberson At the suggestion of prediction market scholars Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz, InTrade is running a market on the XM-Sirius satellite radio merger. The apparent verdict? Market says, “maybe next year.” For the moment, the “The XM and Sirius satellite merger to close before the end of Dec 2007” contract most recently traded …
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Lynne Kiesling I misunderstood the per-play royalty in my previous post on Internet radio royalties. It’s not 8 cents per play per listener, it’s 8/100 of a cent per play per listener. So I was off by 2 decimal places; my apologies, and thanks to commenters for pointing it out. So the annual royalty would …
Lynne Kiesling While we’re discussing music, we are on the verge of another nail in the coffin of Internet radio, in the form of royalty payments. In mid-April the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board decided to affirm a prior ruling it had made to raise royalty rates that Internet-only radio stations pay: Released March 1, the …
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