p2pnet (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
p2pnet news view P2P | Music | Politics:- “Jon,” says an email from NDP digital media spokesman Charlie Angus. “Here’s some footage of the press conference I had with Billy Bragg, Safwan Java (Canadian Musicians Creators Coalition, second left) and Don Quarles (Songwriters of Canada, first left).” It was appropriate to see Angus sitting side-by-side with [...]
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Jonathan Penney provides a New Zealand perspective on why and how people in that country should oppose ACTA.
Bad Tempered Zombie (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Billy Bragg is playing the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary tonight. The last time he was here, he played Knox United Church and it was a great night, very intimate. I would be very curious to hear what people think of a luxe concert hall as a venue in which to experience Mr Bragg, as I won't be able to attend. I suspect the venue does not really matter all that much when it comes to enjoying the...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Allison Outhit’s When Two Worlds Collude: Artists and Fans Hug It Out in Exclaim! magazine highlights how things could, and should be, between fans and artists. Among other things, “While criminalizing unauthorized file sharing has created public hatred against the music business, it has also seriously damaged the [...]
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Billy Bragg is taking part in a nine-month investigation into who we are
Michael Geist's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Billy Bragg and Charlie Angus hosted a press conference last week that included Safwan Javed of Wide Mouth Mason (and the Canadian Music Creators Coalition) and Don Quarles of the Songwriters Association of Canada. The event attracted some media attention and a video of the event has now been posted online .
MBV (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
MySpaceI don’t remember if I read somewhere that Charlotte Hatherley has synesthesia (the condition wherein your visual cognition is tied to your aural and, amongst other symptoms, you see colours or shapes when you hear sounds – experienced by the likes of Lightspeed Champion and Ida Maria, amongst others), but even if she doesn’t you [...]
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Peter ‘Mandy’ Mandelson’s (right) efforts on behalf of Hollywood and Big Music continue to come unglued to the extent a prestigious UK firm is now wondering if they’ll ever become law. The Big 4 record labels and Hollywood are simultaneously hammering their Three Strikes plan, “trying to have it adopted [...]
And another thing... (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
AND SO the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, has decided that the Lords will be elected by proportional representation and that the Commons should be elected using the alternative vote. Years ago, round about the time the dinosaurs were wiped out, Jack was a fierce proponent of first-past-the-post. Then, as Home Secretary, he used the Parliament Act [...]
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The Balconies dominate Ottawa Xpress' Best of Ottawa poll + new shows announced . MySpace Joel Plaskett, Deep Dark Woods , Catherine Maclellan & Jim Byrnes among Canadian Folk Music Award winners. folkawards.ca Merge Records to re-issue The Arcade Fire's Funeral on vinyl Dec. 15. via Twitter Ring in the New Year with Joel Plaskett in Halifiax. TicketAtlanta Spencer Krug releases solo Moonface...
Punknews.org (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
According to a report from the Globe & Mail , legendary musician Billy Bragg recently appeared before the Canadian Parliament to talk about the file sharing problem. The singer and the Canadian New Democratic Party is calling on the government to let artists find a way to make music file swapping a legitimate part of promotion and sales. He is hoping to see new ways to compensate performers while...
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Uncategorisable collective The Imagined Village return on January 11 with their second album Empire & Love. Having settled into a regular membership of ten talented musicians and singers, down from a revolving cast of sixteen, the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners are a more focused bunch this time around. Rather than focusing on having [...]
Bad Tempered Zombie (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
This Vancouver trip feels like it is speeding by at a breakneck pace, yet it has been so packed with events and activities and fabulous people that it's also hard to believe that I have only been here since Friday afternoon. Since we last spoke, I spent five hours wandering around downtown in the rain with the Offspring Formerly Known as Resident, getting seizures from the excesses in Pacific Centre...
Bad Tempered Zombie (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I mean seriously. All you have to do is say " it's gonna rain! " periodically and you're covered. Cushiest job ever. Apparently I arrived during the only 3-hour break from the rain that this city has seen all month. Sadly, those dry Calgary winds that I tucked into my bag were no match for the pineapple express that's been pummeling the coast. But that did not stop Mel, Al, the OFKAR and...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
… p2pnet would stay online. Actually, it would be a few cents more than that, what with CC fees. But you get the idea … I’ve just put p2pnet up for sale. I started it to share music – MIDI, not mp3, files — but ended up becoming a kind of online pamphleteer, joining the men [...]
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