New Music 1/31/11: Black Taxi, Callejero Soundbomb, Georgia Murray, Regal Degal, Chase and Status
Black Taxi Callejero Soundbomb Georgia Murray @Georgia250 (h/t to @martymel) Regal Degal Chase and Status @chaseandstatus
Month: January 2011
New Music 1/28/11: Sea of Bees, Maverick Sabre, Sara Watkins, The Damnwells, Hey Monday
Staff Picks: Sea of Bees @seaofbees Maverick Sabre @mavericksabre Sara Watkins @sarawatkins The Damnwells @thedamnwells Hey Monday @heycassadee
How Do They Sleep At Night: Another Demonstration of Google’s Counternotification Scam
Ellen Seidler uncovers yet another scam by Google to (a) perpetuate piracy and (b) profit from it. So much for the bad apples and “improving” AdSense practices. As Luke Lewis said in the NME, “[I]f piracy is bad, why not block the sites themselves?” Of course the real question is how do they sleep at […]
MTP Monthly Next Week
The first MusicTechPolicy Monthly newsletter of 2011 will ship next week. We will feature the first of a continuing series on “The Big Picture” that will address the kind of policies necessary to develop market forces for new business models to thrive. The MTP Monthly newsletter is subscription only, sign up at MusicTechPolicyMonthly.com In this time […]
Hillicon Valley: Mashup of Animated Schmidt Testifying Before Congress
The Hill reports on a new Consumer Watchdog animation that is self-explanatory.
New Music 1/26/11: Beat Connection, Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, The Krayolas, Lulu and the Lampshades, SBTRKT
Staff picks: Beat Connection The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger @wearethegoastt The Krayolas Lulu and the Lampshades SBTRKT @sbtrkt
At CCER, Everything Old is New Again: Who is Circumventing Whom?
If you live in a jurisdiction that permits ballot measures, you get used to petitions and signature drives—and their foibles. There are lots of rules about signatures on qualification petitions for ballot measures and the quality and validity of the signatures are given some degree of scrutiny. Why? Because most of the ballot measures have […]
New Music 1/22/11 The Smith Westerns, Little Scream, Masters in France, Stereo is a Lie, Phosphorescent
Staff Picks: The Smith Westerns Little Scream Masters in France Stereo is a Lie Phosphorescent Music to Make You Go Home and Practice: Save the Planet (finale) by Edgar Winter’s White Trash
Quantifying Google’s Profit From Piracy
Without Google (and other ad serving companies) transparently disclosing how much they profit from rogue sites it’s hard to back into a number that quantifies how much Google actually makes from selling advertising on (or in popups on the way to) pirate sites (typically without the knowledge of their advertisers). You can gather a hunch about the […]
New Music 1/20/11 Jensen Reed, Brown Brogues, The Brute Chorus, Oh No Oh My, Jeremy Soul
Staff picks 1/20/11 Jeremy Soul @jeremysoul Jensen Reed @jensenreed Brown Brogues @brownbrogues The Brute Chorus @brutechorus Oh No Oh My @ohnoohmy
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