A small item showed up on digitalmusicnews.com this a.m.:”Jupitermedia has now purchased Flying Hands Media…” Flying Hands Media is a royalty-free music seller established in Louisville by Ray Yates and Brian Curella. Yates is a keyboard player with a strong interest in the digital world; he published dozens of CDs of royalty-free background [...]
Another Online Music Seller Bites the Dust
Snocap, which parted company with CDBaby recently, appears to be headed for the exit, a not-too-uncommon outcome for web startups of all kind. However, P2Pnet.net has a truly brutal take on the music-selling business. How’s this for a quote: “Selling music is like selling gravel. It’s a commodity.”
Louisville singer-songwriter Warren Ray gets a nod in Judith Egerton’s Film Clips column in the C-J. Ray is the star of “Skate or Die,” a five-minute film by Scott Shuffitt that documents Ray’s effort to recover his skateboarding skills as a way of getting off tobacco. Egerton’s column is here (the story’s is [...]
Singer-Songwriter Succumbs to Cancer
Singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, 56, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was diagnosed with the illness in 2004. The Associated Press has more details .
His website is at www.danfogelberg.com/.