A bunch of internet stations played NOTHING today in protest of recent legislation trying to make them pay more money in royalties. It seems to me that every time this world finds a new cool renegade of music revolution the GOVERNMENT tries to make it something of their own. Not sure of the details here […]
The government is doing it’s best to fuck up file sharing. And they can now do this if they feel like it.
As the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more. A couple of examples that quickly come to mind:
* The ABSURD retail pricing of Year Zero in Australia. Shame on you, UMG. Year Zero is selling for […]
NIN have posted three new songs on the popular Bit Torrent site - Pirate Bay. Very cool indeed.
Finally somewhere to see all of Rotten’s cool TV shit.
I usually sway away from anything with a neg vibe AND a positive vibe at all much less in one post but:
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I guess Dems aren’t gonna save everything.
From Punknews.org
A number of independent labels have joined together in a move which could have far reaching consequences for the music industry. Labels including heavyweights like Epitaph, Beggars Group have formed Merlin, a collective licensing agency which would allow independents to establish the same kind of market power and negotiating ability currently enjoyed by just […]
The king of hard rock says he is recording a new album that will include a song called “Rebels without applause” about up and coming new bands….
he told Rolling Stone this
“I’m not the bitter guy that’s jealous of these other bands that are coming up and stealing my thunder. I invented thunder and rain. I […]
Orange county band ‘SUPERNOVA” has filed for a preliminary injunction in a San Diego court today to prevent the band ’supernova’ with tommy lee to either change the name or add a moniker to the name before the band performs.
City officials in Fullerton, California have demanded that American Records take these bus bench ads down immediatly saying the image of the antichrist and the skull are offensive and that they believe the bands name refers to a murderer.
If anyone has info before I do please send it here.
Recently Billy Bragg objected to myspace.com’s clause in the fine print that said
“grant to Myspace.com a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide licence (with the rights to sublicense through unlimited levels of sub licensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit and distribute such content on and through the services.”
He […]
John recently attended a charity Spoken Word Event at film-maker Kevin Smith’s house (Clerks, Dogma, etc). In true Rotten style, Mr Lydon read the lyrics to ‘The Body’, ‘Bodies’, ‘Tie Me to the Length of That’ & ‘God Save the Queen’.
You can read all about the event on Kevin’s website.
John was one of Kevin’s highlights…he […]
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