Record producer Jerry Finn, 39, died on August 21 following a massive brain hemmorhage in July. He was removed from life support on August 9. Finn was the producer for many albums by current performers, including AFI, Bad Religion, Blink-182, Alkaline Trio, MxPx, Rancid, Green Day, Sum 41, The Offspring and Morrissey.
If you’re looking for Velocity’s online site, it’s apparently been folded into the Courier-Journal and/or MetroMix. Starting at the C-J’s site there is a link to Velocity, which brings up Velocity’s content under the C-J header. Clicking on any story brings up the story under the Metromix header.
Club Villa Montana at Theatre Square on Fourth St. may lose its liquor license, according to an article in last Wednesday’s LEO. The club has several alcohol-related infractions, as well as two shootings in the last fifteen months.
The manic but insightful Bob Leftsetz does an analysis of how CD sales start … and end.
It was bound to happen - gasoline prices are throttling indie tours in the crib. When it costs more in gas than a band will make at a show, there’s no way to stay out on tour. CNN.com Entertainment has a piece on a San Francisco band but it could just as well be someone from Louisville.
US District judge S. James Otero has ruled that the sale of promotional CDs is “protected under the first sale doctrine.” The ruling came down in a case that Universal Music brought against Troy Augusto, who was selling promotional CDs on eBay.com. Otero ruled that “The promo CDs are gifts distributed by UMG, as they are mailed free and unsolicited to thousands of people without any expectation or intention of their return. The first sale doctrine says that once the copyright owner sells or gives away a copy of a CD, DVD, or book, the recipient is entitled to resell that copy without further permission.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was supporting Augusto. They have a press release posted.
The C-J is reporting that a new nightclub, to be called Club Underground, is planned for a building at 544 S. Fourth St., just south of Fourth Street Live!. The building was formerly the site of a McCrory’s five-and-dime store.
An article from the Canwest News Service says that the Canadian government is “secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices….The deal would create a international regulator that could turn border guards and other public security personnel into copyright police.”
The agreement would include allowing for confiscation and destruction of devices with infringing content. The entire article is here.
The problems radio is having continue; the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) reports that total radio advertising fell below $4.5 billion in the first quarter of 2008, a drop of 5%. The splits were reported this way: “Local revenue dropped six percent in the quarter, with national revenue off by 11 percent. Meanwhile, network ad revenue grew by seven percent and off-air revenue was up an impressive 15 percent.” FQMB.com has the story.