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Web Radio Compromise Bill Passes House

Source: PC Magazine
September 30, 2008

Amid the bailout frenzy on Capitol Hill this weekend, the House on Saturday passed a bill that would give its blessing to any compromise reached between Internet radio stations and copyright holders over royalty fees. “There may now be a light at the end of the tunnel in the fight over Internet radio royalties," bill sponsor Jay Inslee, a Washington Democrat, said in a Sunday statement. The bill, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008, guarantees that if Internet radio and ...

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AccuRadio.com Announces New Jazz Subchannels "Covering All the Bassists" and "Jazz Fusion"

Source: All About Jazz
September 26, 2008

Leading webcaster accuRadio.com recently made public two brand new internet jazz radio stations: “Covering All the Bassists" and “Jazz Fusion." The two new radio streams join eleven current jazz subchannels ranging from the catch-all “All That Jazz" to “Piano Jazz," and “New School." “Covering All the Bassists" joins “Piano Jazz," “Saxophone Jazz," “Jazz Vocals" and “Guitar Jazz" as an instrument-specific channel. While the jazz bassist is often relegated to a background role, the AccuRadio channel showcases music that puts the ...

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JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 15, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
September 26, 2008

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Roy Hargrove Earfood (Emarcy) 286 359 -73 3 66 1 9 2 2 6 David Sanborn Here And Gone (Decca) 273 207 +66 4 58 2 7 3 12 12 Mike LeDonne FiveLive (Savant) 222 114 +108 13 58 3 3 4 3 3 Bob Mintzer Big Band Swing Out (MCG Jazz) 177 199 -22 1 50 3 4 5 10 10 Ahmad Jamal It’s Magic ...

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'Rambling Boy': Haden's Musical Homecoming

Source: All About Jazz
September 25, 2008

Bassist Charlie Haden is known as a great jazz musician, but his lineage is all country: Growing up, he performed alongside his brothers and sister in the Haden Family Band, a country group led by his parents, Carl and Virginia. The group's music played on radio stations in the South and Midwest, and on the family's country radio show, broadcast on KMA in Shenandoah, Iowa. Since then, Haden has made a career in jazz, but his new album, a bluegrass ...

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Amazon Confirms Music Store for 'Google Phone'

Source: PC Magazine
September 24, 2008

Amazon said Tuesday that it will preload a version of its Amazon MP3 store on the T-Mobile G1, the so-called “Google phone" running Google's Android OS, which launches Tuesday in New York. The T-Mobile G1 comes pre-loaded with an Amazon MP3 application, giving customers a phone-optimized version of the Amazon MP3 store, Amazon said. While the store requires a Wi-Fi connection to purchase songs, only a cellular connection is needed to preview them. Amazon's MP3 tracks come without DRM, allowing ...

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Is Internet Radio Saved? Not Exactly

Source: PC Magazine
September 24, 2008

The recording industry and a group representing digital media reached an agreement Tuesday regarding royalty rates for certain online music services, but the controversial issue of rates for Internet radio stations like Pandora has yet to be settled. Under Tuesday's deal, sites offering interactive streaming and limited downloads will pay 10.5 percent of annual revenue as a “mechanical" royalty rate - or a fee that goes to songwriters, composers, and publishers. Interactive streaming Web sites are music sites that let ...

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Radiohead Remix Project

Source: JamBase
September 24, 2008

RADIOHEAD RECKONER REMIX PROJECT

Radiohead After the overwhelming response to the Nude Remix Project, Radiohead are giving fans the opportunity to remix “Reckoner," another track from the band's latest album In Rainbows at www.radioheadremix.com.

To make remixing easy, the separate 'stems'* from the song will be available to purchase on iTunes. The 'stems' available are bass, lead vocal, backing vocals, guitars, piano/strings and drums. All six stems will be available to buy for the price of a single track. Fans ...

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B.J. Jansen & Conjura to be Featured on WCLV 104.9 FM in Cleveland, OH

Source: All About Jazz
September 23, 2008

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