May 2012
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May 25th
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May 22nd
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May 15th
May 15th
“Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are...”
– Samuel Butler, 1863, Darwin among the Machines.
May 14th
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May 11th
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May 11th
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May 11th
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May 9th
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Village People's policeman lays down the law on... →
“It all goes back to the 1978 amendments to the US Copyright Act. According to that law, songwriters have the right to unilaterally terminate their copyright deals with labels and publishers, 35 years after the contracts are inked, provided they give due notice to labels and publishers. It is under that law, which takes effect next year, that Willis is relcaiming his rights to the Village...
May 9th
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Funding Boost For Contemporary Music In Australia →
May 9th
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Not All Musicians Are Entrepreneurs, But... →
May 9th
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6 Reasons Grooveshark’s CEO Thinks Recorded Music... →
May 9th
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Chapter from Wendy Day's book How To Get A Record... →
May 9th
May 8th
Store, buy, download.
I’ve set up a store at Bandcamp where you can download some albums we’ve put out. Currently there’s only 5 but more from the catalogue will go up very soon. Enjoy.
May 7th
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update on june 10th TBS show.
Terrorbyte Stripes will be playing at Pony bar on June 10th with Spermaids, Organ Morgan, The Cholesterollers and Mick the Merciless. Entire night is free and weird.
May 7th
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Imagine a city of 11 million inhabitants stripped... →
May 4th
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May 3rd
A new York judge has ruled an IP address isn't... →
May 3rd
First isp in UK to block pirate bay.  →
May 3rd
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April 2012
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Apr 30th
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THE HOWLING SOUND →
4-6 MAY 2012, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM each night @ FEDERATION SQUARE’S ATRIUM, enter via Flinders Street FREE
Apr 30th
Apr 30th
Top Secret America →
Amazing work from Washington Post
Apr 30th
Apr 28th
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Apr 25th
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Internet creator blames music industry for trying... →
Sir Tim Berners-Lee agrees with everyone in the world; record labels can give up and leave us alone.
Apr 20th
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Abrupt funding cut for Melba music label →
Melba records, earlier this month accused of receiving a shit load of government funding compared to everything else, has been cut off. Very good to see the other side of the story.
Apr 19th
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Hollywood loses final appeal in piracy case →
“It means that the content owners needs to decide if they are going to continue to try to keep hold of their 20th century business model or open an online shop.”
Apr 19th
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Garbage: No More Majors →
If you’re a band even half this famous, you shouldn’t be going anywhere near major labels. Why wouldn’t you release everything on your own?
Apr 19th
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Telstra streaming MOG music →
Telstra’s setting up music streaming for it’s subscribers via MOG. This’ll take a good chunk out of Spotify and Rdio blah blah blah and make Telstra a heap in revenue blah blah and the labels will receive a nice chunk of that blah blah blah. “According to my statements it would still take around 90 streams at the current rate of 0.0078 euros to generate the equivalent of...
Apr 19th
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EU Clears Sony to Buy EMI's Music Publishing... →
Sony keeps buying and getting bigger and more irrelevant. Don’t worry.
Apr 19th
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Incredibox, animated beatbox engine. →
via waxy.org
Apr 19th
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Introducing the Humble Botanicula Debut! →
“Pay what you want for Amanita Design’s brand new game, Botanicula, along with Machinarium and Samorost 2. If you pay more than the average price, you’ll also get Windosill and the Czech full-length feature film, Kooky (dubbed in English)! The games are DRM-free and work on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and soundtracks are included (when available) for your out-of-game enjoyment.”
Apr 19th
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Can a Slumchella Music Fest Empower Kenya's Poor? →
Village Beat music festival vs. the Gilgel Gibe III dam in Ethiopia.
Apr 17th
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Battle for the internet - A Great Series by The... →
Like many people, I see the internet closing in fast and lawmakers strangling the open web. I’m a cynical as it gets when it comes to the future of the internet but I hope Sergey Brin says total control is coming and you’ve got Facebook and Apple to blame while Ai Weiwei is optimistic of the power we all have in our hands right now.
Apr 17th
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Apr 14th
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jun 10th, Pony Bar, we're putting on an all night...
queen’s birthday, 5 bands. all free. at pony bar. we take care of you. more details soon.
Apr 14th
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Uncovered: Tax Millions Wasted On Classical Music  →
“We are outraged that this amount of funding should be provided to a single organisation outside of the peer review process,” music lobby group SLAM wrote. “The sheer size of the initial grant provided to Melba Recordings is equal to the entire budget of the music board of the Australia Council.” So now’s the time to apply for big music grants; surely they want to save face.
Apr 13th
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aphorismic asked: omg where can I buy your music
Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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ListenFist News, tongue-in-cheek television news theme....
Apr 8th
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ListenOliver is a laid-back tech tune with a breaks...
Apr 8th
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ListenPlastic, cute, subdued breaks with house elements.
Apr 8th
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ListenReally, progressive breaks tune.
Apr 8th
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The Pirate Bay / Promo Bay
“We do this for fun and for the love of culture, so we’re everything the major labels are not.” - 5000+ Artists Line Up For a Pirate Bay Promotion.
Apr 6th