ON THE THURSDAY before Derby, you can catch a little TV taping action at Gerstle’s, when “The Player’s Spot” show features Mickey Clark and Cup O’ Joe Acoustic for a free show. Clark, who has returned to performing after a very long layoff, had his biggest success with “She’s Gone To L.A. Again,” a tune [...]
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The record business continues to squirm and struggle with the ongoing implosion of their business model. Various sites are noting that Peter Gabriel is backing we7.com, a new, ad-supported free music site, wherein the ads are in the DRM-free music files. Signup is free for downloaders-artists-advertisers. We’ll let you know how the thing works over the next few days. —PMM The Copyright Royalty Board has posted their new rulings in the Federal Registers but changed the due date from May 15 to July 15. FMQB.com has the details. Bob Lefsetz, who has as clear a view of the current and future music ’scene’ as anybody, has a take on festivals and why they’re not the kingmakers, either. This close to Derby, there’s not much in the print media that’s not Derby-themed. Case in point: Velocity for this week’s big music story is about a DJ’s Derby mixtape. Joseph Lord does have a feature preview of CocoRosie’s May 11 show. He references their video of “Rainbowarriors,” which you can watch at [...] |
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