Pussy Riot another photo shoot by Vanya Berezkin (2012)
Text from the video (Published on Feb 18, 2015)
Pussy Riot’s YouTube Video: “I can’t breathe” – A Tribute To Errol Garner
Tag Archives: music activism
Future of Music Coaltion News: Real Net Neutrality Inches Closer to the Finish Line!
Text by Future of Music Coaltion (submitted by kevin on February 4, 2015 – 1:59pm): https://futureofmusic.org/blog/2015/02/04/real-net-neutrality-inches-closer-finish-line
This morning, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler published an op-ed in Wired announcing the FCC’s proposed open Internet rules under a strong But flexible framework.
This announcement is a huge victory for net neutrality advocates, including musicians and independent labels who rely on the access to audiences provided by the internet as a fundamental tool for commerce and free speech. And it’s also a victory for music fans, who want equal access to the full diversity of musical expression, not just those backed by corporations who can afford to strike big money fast-lane deals with broadband providers.
Event Recommendation: Millions March NYC…say “no” to the senseless killing of Black people and the impunity of police who kill!
Date: 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.
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.
BREAKING! Apple Announces Itunes One Dollar Albums and Ten Cent Song Downloads In Time For The Holidays! By Sillycon Daily News
Text by trichordist
Satire – but not by much. Apple Computer announced today that for it’s Itunes Music Store to remain competitive in the digital distribution marketplace for music they would be changing their retail pricing of album downloads to one dollar and song downloads to 10 cents each. The pricing change will be effective on black Friday […]
