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Event Recommendation: Millions March NYC…say “no” to the senseless killing of Black people and the impunity of police who kill!

million march nycDate: Saturday, December 13, 2014
Time: 2pm
Location: Washington Square Park (NY)
March info: http://www.millionsmarchnyc.org/#!marchinfo/cxt9

Text from MILLIONS MARCH NYC | COALITION home page

A coalition of young multi-racial activists led by Black organizers in New York has called for a Millions March to take place on Saturday, December 13, gathering in Washington Square Park at 2 PM. The mass rally will take place in Manhattan; tens of thousands have already confirmed their attendance on Facebook.

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With Nearly 1 Billion Licensed Works, Creative Commons Takes Stock

Text by Benjamin Sutton on December 9, 2014

CC licensed-works mapIn its first-ever “State of the Commons” report, Creative Commons — the nonprofit that aims to facilitate the free sharing and licensing of creative work — revealed that there are at least 882 million Creative Commons–licensed works currently available online, and that sometime next year that figure is expected to pass one billion.

The number of these works has grown exponentially, from just 50 million in 2006 to 400 million in 2010, to more than double that figure in the last four years. Creative Commons works with licenses linking back to the Creative Commons website are accessed 27 million times per day (this does not account for the many licensed pieces that do not link back)….

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Spotify Must “Adapt Or Die” : Pricing For Sustainability

Text by Trichordist

The single biggest problem with Spotify (and other services like it) is that they have completely removed the relationship between the artists and the fan. The labels have leveraged their catalogs as an asset in exchange for equity shares in a tech start up that is subsidized by the artists. And to be clear, that is equity that the labels are not “sharing” with the artists who are making the equity possible. We’re not even sure how this could be legal, but we’ll leave that to the lawyers to figure out.

The second problem is that the money the consumer pays, does not pay the artists the consumer is supporting. The model for Spotify and others is to divide the total pool of revenue by the total number of streams and pay out the revenue on a per stream basis. But that is not the same as a directing each consumers payments only to the artists that consumer is streaming.

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Music Listings – 12/8 through 12/14/2014

1. Lauren Lee “Space Jazz” Trio w. GOSPEL OF MARS

Date:  Monday, December 8, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Tea Lounge (837 Union St., bet. 6th & 7th Aves., Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz

With influences ranging from bebop and free jazz to glam rock and romanticism, Lauren Lee‘s “Space Jazz” Trio takes you on a whirlwind, abbreviated tour through music history with a very modern, sophisticated, and exciting flavor palate sure to please even the most discerning music lover. Featuring Charley Sabatino on bass and Andy O’Neill on drums.

GOSPEL OF MARS: band started on July 16 2012 as a duo between Jef Brown and Aaron Moore with a gig at Zebulon in Brooklyn. Bob Jones joined on double bass in December 2012 and Marcus Cummins joined on soprano and alto sax in April of 2013. Influenced by Can, Kraftwerk, Coltrane, Mulatu Eshete, Ornette Coleman, Mahmoud Ahmend, Fela Kuti, Chico Hamilton, and more, more, more!
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Recommended Book: “NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990” by Tony Rettman and Freddy Cricien (Dec 30, 2014)

NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990, by Tony RettmanISBN 978-1935950-12-7
High-quality trade paperback
450 densely illustrated pages
Foreword by Freddy Cricien
Dimensions: 6.75″ x 9.5″ x 1.5″ (170mm x 240mm x 40mm); 3 lbs. (1.2 kg)

“One of the greatest things ever for me was having a full belly of macaroni and meatballs, standing in front of CBGB at a hardcore matinee, and seeing my grandfather’s pigeons flying over.”—Vinnie Stigma, Agnostic Front

Known for its glamorous 1970s punk rock scene, New York City matched the grim urban reality of the 1980s with a rawer musical uprising: New York hardcore. As bands of misfits from across the region gravitated to the forgotten frontier of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. With a a backdrop of despair, bands like Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Murphy’s Law, and Youth of Today confronted their reality with relentlessly energetic gigs at CBGB, A7, and the numerous squats in the area.

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