Results tagged “internetradio”

If you, like Phillyist, depend on XPN's live stream to entertain you during the long work day, you're in for what might be a sign of things to come today. XPN, along with other radio stations that simulcast their broadcasts and many webcasters, is participating in the Internet Radio Day of Silence. Why would they do such a thing? Do they want to torture us? No. But the Copyright Royalty Board does. A recent ruling mandating rate increase along with retroactive royalty payments to July 2006 will lead to a virtual shutdown of online streams. Why? The rate increase will simply price most noncommercial and independent webcasters out of the market; XPN has said that they simply won't be able to offer unfettered access to their streams, as the new rates will cost them over $100,000 annually. The bite in the ass is that many independent artists are none too pleased with the decision, considering the independent and niche nature of many webcasts (find a terrestrial radio station that offers the playlist of the Polka Jammer Network. We dare you) helps them gain needed exposure.

high school, and continue to love the songs of theirs that I knew back then, but, well, years later, they're still making music, and it's music that I, unfortunately, wasn't familiar with until last night. Sure, they didn't play a single song that I knew from back in the day, but it didn't really matter: it was still a solid, and solidly entertaining, set (punctuated by interludes that went: "Married on MySpace, but single on Friendster") that provided an excellent soundtrack to our meals. Plus, there was a lap steel on stage. And that's more or less all it takes to win me over.

- Are local Dems concerned about the proliferation of untried candidates running for office? Albert Yee thinks so. Here's why.