Hey everyone. Sorry for the inactivity. My power supply fried on my computer and midterms came around simultaneously, which led to little free time for me. However, I should be more active now that both those aforementioned issues have been handled.

At my university, we have an independent student radio station that broadcasts a 24/7 stream of music and streams student radio shows. The website has been recently updated with a great new media player and I recommend everyone go check it out and let me know what you think. I am one of the producers for the station (The University Pulse), essentially, one of the people who coordinates all the music played on the streams and my own personal 30 minute show, which is updated every week. I’ll keep everyone posted on when those updates occur.

http://bsupulse.com/listen/

My show is “Static Control”. Scroll down a bit and just click the title of the show. The player should pop out and start right away. Feel free to have a look around, listen, and as always, I will accept requests if you have an electronic track you’d like to hear on the show! All feedback is greatly considered and appreciated. Most of all, enjoy the music!

Hope everyone is having a nice Autumn season. =]

I’ll be on vacation through Wednesday so I apologize for any lack of activity on my part until then.

Should be back in full swing by Wednesday afternoon.  Until then, have an enjoyable Columbus Day weekend!

According to CNET, it seems songwriters, composers, and music publishers are working on a plan to target Apple and other online distribution outlets to increase compensation they receive for their downloads.  Adding more fuel to the fire, they even want to be compensated for 30 second previews found on a lot of sites.

Having already been unsuccessful at negotiating increased fees with distributors such as Apple, the groups, which include the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) among others, have begun lobbying the U.S. Congress in order to pass legislation to address their claims.

The groups are targeting what is know as a “performance fee”, a type of licensing fee used to compensate composers and publishers when their work is performed in public.  David Renzer, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Publishing Group, said in interview late last month with entertainment-industry publication, Encore. “(On iTunes) you can stream radio, and you can preview (tracks), things that we should be getting paid performance income for.”

To further complicate the matter, artists are seeking performance fees for songs played in movies and TV shows downloaded.  Typically, when a movie or TV show is played on the air a performance fee is paid to a artist for a song played in the show.  However, no such fees are paid when the movie or TV show is downloaded.

So far Congress, and courts, have sided with digital content distributors claiming  anything downloaded should be considered a private performance and should not be counted as a public broadcast.  I, personally, believe this to be true as well.

So what are your thoughts on this matter?

Well just yesterday I was able to snag a really good deal on a Sigma 18-50 2.8 lens for my SLR.  What that means for this site is I’m going to start taking photos of shows I see.

The lens is slated to arrive tomorrow and if I’m lucky I’ll be able to snag tickets to sold out Matt & Kim show tomorrow night.

Some other shows I have my sights on: Pinback, Datarock, Japandroids, and Sunny Day Real Estate.

Let me know if you dying to see photos of other groups.

As an update to the earlier announcement that Trent Reznor was sick, it seems the previously scheduled Saturday the 5th show will be now held next Thursday the 10th.  Details on the NIN website, but they will be honoring all Saturday tickets and will give full refunds to those not able to make the switch.

The new scheduled shows will be as followed:

9/6 Echoplex (unchanged)

9/8 Henry Fonda (rescheduled date)

9/10 The Wiltern (rescheduled date)

Seems NIN and Trent did well given his circumstances.  Kudos to the band for trying to accommodate as many fans as possible.

Sorry for the delay in reporting this one, but I’ve been away from a computer all day.  Radiohead has officially released the much blogged about track “These Are My Twisted Words”, which was leaked to the internet by would-be hackers.

Go and download it, you won’t regret it.  Best of all it’s free!

As the leaked version of “These Are My Twisted Words” caused quite a stir, more rumors have surfaced regarding Radioheads supposed single.

The most popular (and optimistic) theory at the moment puts forth the idea that “Twisted Words” is from a new Radiohead EP called Wall of Ice that will hit the internet super hard on Monday.   According to an anonymous tipster, the original leaked track was bundled with a info file that tagged the release date of August 17. The message then endedwith the words “Wall of Ice”.

Apparently, adding fire to the rumors,  wallofice.com redirects to Radiohead’s online store!

(I should just call this site Radio Head Freak :-p)