Black Lab and Faces of Community
Some of you know I’m a huge fan of black lab and often my tweet contain their lyrics. I have a million favorite songs so pointing you at one album would be difficult at best. Buy all of them instead and then watch all the videos. Their music along with Matthew Ebel’s make up the vast majority of my music collection. A few months ago, they decided to make a video of their community with photos of the people within it. They put out a quick call for photos from the community to feature in a video of pictures of people (lyrics are at the bottom of the post). Of course, I immediately jumped on[.....]
Closing the Box: Pandora’s Woes
Pandora faces closing the lid on it’s popular streaming radio service after the CRB, earlier this year, tripled the fees due to SoundExchange. Each time a streaming service plays a song they have to pay a small fee to Soundexchange. Soundexchange is deeply associated with the RIAA, who continuously acts like the bully on the playground. Making all the rules and taking your lunch money to boot. Now the strain of those triple fees has hit internet stream radio and popular service Pandora is getting punched in the stomach enough times that it just might fall over soon. This weekend, the Washington Post reported that Tim Westergren, Founder of Pandora Radio stated “We’re approaching a[.....]
[RL] Prince, the Mail, and his free release
Say what? Prince is releasing free copies of his CD in the Sunday Mail? Fans love this kind of stuff. People in general love *free* stuff. It’s free *Prince*. Drop “shipping” your CD to thousands of people at no cost to them and they just might give a listen. They might fall in love with the music (and even purchase tickets to a fall tour as a result . The ERA’s co-chairman Paul Quirk made a comment to the press about the paper/CD release: “The Artist formerly known as Prince should know that with behaviour like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores,” he said. “It is an insult to[.....]
[RL] definition of a pixie
I think I need to introduce myself. Hi. I’m Michelle Wolverton. Also known as Chel Pixie. Now that you know my name, let me tell you who I am. I came to the web to find community outside of the small sleepy Arkansas town I lived in. To that end, I joined Memespace (the old version on Caucus), which was founded by Christopher Abraham. Memespace held a lot of interesting people who inspired each other. I was a host there for a period of time before the Caucus version closed it’s doors and moved. From there, I found my way to Howard Rheingold’s Brainstorms. I’ve been a member of this virtual community since 1999. Here[.....]
why you should support independent musicians reason # 386
Virtual Hot Wings has been a fantastic project and if I haven’t said it loudly enough; working with Christopher Penn, Matthew Ebel, C.C. Chapman, Crap Mariner, and Dedric Muriac; has been an amazing experience. That experience was celebrated yesterday during a concert by Matthew in Second Life. During the concert, I received some IMs regarding the CD and the concept. One of the IMs was from a guy and what he had to say touched a nerve. The conversation (with names omitted) went like this: [11:53] Random Guy: oh which CD? [11:53] Chel Pixie: virtual hot wings [11:56] Random Guy: ah didn’t even read most of the web page, it’s a cap of some Concerts[.....]
