Kim Bodnia

Although I could never appreciate the music of Pearl Jam I was reminded of how beautiful it is their song, Elderly woman behind the counter in a small town, this weekend when it popped up on a radio station. In my opinion it's the song where the musical styles of R.E.M. and Pearl Jam most closely intersect, the day's not far away when I purchase "Vs."

Billy Bragg on tour:

http://www.brooklynv...y_bragg_on.html

From the song logs of the Minnesotta Public Radio, three Wilco songs today:

"I'm the man who loves you" @ 2.24 P.M.

"Jesus, etc" @ 9.01 A.M.

"Standing O" @ 3.45 A.M.

Thanks for posting this, it's really interesting. Not sure if I agree with the description of that Wilco demographic, but marketers and publicists tend to use generalisations, even stereotypes when describing what they consider an ideal market segment. It's their job anyway.

"as far as I know, Wilco has never advocated a Wilco lifestyle, and would almost certainly find this column ridiculous. Plus, though the band wouldn't comment on its branding, manager Tony Margherita, via email, replied: "They think of themselves as a band, not a brand."

New Wilderness of Manitoba due September 18,

http://exclaim.ca/News/wilderness_of_manitoba_announce_island_of_echoes_lp

A few weeks ago I wanted to acquire their 1997 album, for nostalgia reasons. Now that they have split I wonder if prices of their CDs will hike, I may have to postpone the purchase again. Not that they're essential, but the hit song, plus other stuff from Len, Natalie Imbruglia, Rolling Stone's Bridges to Babylon, they all bring memories from that wonderful year when the dot com ruled.

hi, could i ask why are you based in Krakow? And where's the radio interview? thanks for elucidating

You are brave.

That's a nice album, Boss_Tweedy, not their best, but not their worst either. Enough good songs to require repeated listens!

The Baseball Project have announced various live dates accross the United States. Mike Mills will be playing bass.

July 5 New York, NY – City Winery (with Craig Finn of the Hold Steady)

July 6 New London, CT – Sailfest

July 7 Boston, MA – House of Blues

July 8 Wellfleet, MA – The Beachcomber

July 24 Madison, WI – Warner Park

July 24 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon

July 25 St. Louis, MO – Wood House Concert

July 26 Rock Island, IL – Rock Island Brewing Co.

July 27 Somerset, WI – Soundtown Festival

July 28 Chicago, IL – Wicker Park Fest

More info at jambands.com: http://www.jambands.com/news/2012/06/22/the-baseball-project-set-dates

If his business is important to the establishment, they'll listen. But it's just a cartoon anyway.

While making a copy to a friend may seem trivial, copyright law only allows for copies that qualify as "fair use".

"Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair" (http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html).

The Internet allows for an infinite number of copies, copyright doesn't. I may not like this law. I'm actually of the opinion that sharing does help the industry in selling more records (because more people are exposed to the content therefore increasing the chances of a purchase) but the law exists.

The author seems to put all the blame on users downloading music. What about the music industry? Sales have declined in the past, well before the Internet existed and the reason is the music industry has been slow to innovate. The following research is by Lawrence Lessig:

While the numbers do suggest that sharing is harmful, how harmful is harder to

reckon. It has long been the recording industry's practice to blame technology

for any drop in sales. The history of cassette recording is a good example. As

a study by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young put it, "Rather than exploiting this new,

popular technology, the labels fought it." The labels claimed that every

album taped was an album unsold, and when record sales fell by 11.4 percent in

1981, the industry claimed that its point was proved. Technology was the

problem, and banning or regulating technology was the answer.

Yet soon thereafter, and before Congress was given an opportunity to enact

regulation, MTV was launched, and the industry had a record turnaround. "In the

end," Cap Gemini concludes, "the 'crisis' ... was not the fault of the tapers"

who did not [stop after MTV came into being] - but had to a large extent

resulted from stagnation in musical innovation at the major labels."

(Lessig, 2005,).

Also, I don't agree that we're being "misinformed" by the Free Culture movement. Just browse Creative Commons for a wealth of music that you can download and distribute without guilt.

Oh and by the way, the difference between artists who are dead or alive or rich or poor - makes no difference.

The difference is music that's in the public domain and music that isn't.

Ummm... I call bullshit w/o some sort of documentation.

Think what you like to think. There's plenty of examples of copyright infringement that may seem absurd (or silly). Like this one or this one

The fact is I didn't write copyright law. If someone wrote a song, and he or she wouldn't allow you to sing it in the shower, that's infringement because you don't own the lyrics.

Completely agree with Shakey. Unfortunately, the tentacles of copyright law extend far beyond the download of mp3 files. Even singing a song in the shower may constitute infringement. Seriously.

In trying to explain the concept of free software, someone wrote (may have been Stallman himself) that "free" should not be understood "as in free beer" but as in freedom. A GPL license gives you the right (the freedom) to copy and distribute, music sharing is just the opposite, you cannot distribute and especially you cannot copy. There's a current of thought that advocates intellectual property, with music being a part of this type of property.

DrNo, this really is an important reading for music fans, as you appropriately titled.

I'm halfway through the article, but I wanted to make these initial comments.

Contrary to Ms. White, I purchase all of the music that I listen to. I don't own ripped CDs nor I download mp3s. Even though I know how to program PHP and know to write SQL, to this day I don't know how to use the torrents nor I have any intention to learn.

I remember the one time I got into Kazaa and Napster my computer just got infected with a bunch of malware, spyware or whatever and I had to reinstall Windows and reset the machine to factory settings. It was nasty. I also remember downloads taking days to complete.

In trying to explain why I keep buying CDs, I've come up with some explanations. I think I'm very materialistic (sadly) and I like to physically store DVDs and CDs in my personal library, like prized possessions. It probably helps that I don't listen to that many bands (I only like a few selected bands) so I don't need to buy that many CDs because a lot of the music just doesn't interest me. I own about 200 CDs so my iTunes has much less songs than Ms. White's.

I do stream a lot of music on spinner, grooveshark and youtube. Some of these listens may turn into a CD purchase but this is mostly the exception.

When I want a CD I go to great lengths to acquire it, some of my CDs have arrived from as far as Norway, Russia, when I could have just downloaded the songs. I've paid around $30 for very hard to fin, out of print CDs.

Kinda cool! I'd like to hear his pure singing voice, without effects. Waiting to hear more of the album.

I agree.

Wynn said in a radio interview that Peter sings on most of the album tracks, so hopefully there's another song out there featuring his rough voice. Wynn referred to a couple of times in the past where he has sang, mentioning backing vocals (I don't remember if he said the Monster album or sometime during the Monster tour) and there's also the occassion when he literally spoke into a song of The Baseball Project's second studio album.

Wynn described the backing band accompanying Peter as R.E.M. without Michael Stipe, for there's Mike Mills, Bill Rieflin and Lenny Kaye who's a member of the Patti Smith band and who also guested on Collapse into Now.

They still maintain that the album will be vinyl-only and a figure of 2,000 copies was mentioned at some point, but I think the vinyl-only decision will be softened, so to speak, as the release date approaches, especially if some MP3 download option is included with the purchase, or if iTunes carries the product.

By the way, "10,000" reminded me of Steve Wynn's song "Amphetamine" very fast-paced rockers both songs.

Listen to the new Peter Buck song, from his upcoming solo record,

http://soundcloud.com/chartstonge/10-million-bc

Oceania is now streaming on iTunes U.K. should be available to stream on more sites in the U.S. starting June 12.