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096 – Performance Rights Act Part 1

Recorded 31 March 2009

This episode is the first half of an interview with Alice Peacock, singer-songwriter and past president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) and Bruce Iglauer, Founder and President of Alligator Records, the world’s largest independent Blues Record Label.

Some of what we discuss in this episode of With A Voice Like This:

  • What HR-848 is all about
  • What the breakdown of royalty payouts
  • How the Payouts are handled (Master owner, performer, etc.)
  • Perspectives of Indie Labels and performers
  • Shrinking business of recording music
  • Does HR-848 go far enough?
  • History of Performance Rights Organizations
  • Reply to the ‘radio free promotion for the music and musicians’ stance

If you’d like to learn more about Alice Peacock and her music, you can go to AlicePeacock.com and to learn more about Alligator records, you can go to AlligatorRecords.com.

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095 – Bump, Set, Spinal Tap

Recorded 24 March 2009

4-AM

  • A recap of the Playoffs performance of our new set
  • The interesting thing about a cappella is…

At Any Rate

  • A bit about the backstage passes to the Buddy Guy performance at the Rialto Square Theatre
  • Some thoughts about Lonnie Brooks’ performance as well
  • My “This is Spinal Tap” experience at the Rialto Square Theatre

News you can use

  • Just a bit about The MusicFirst Coalition and the Performance Rights Act links
  • Next week’s guest is Alice Peacock, Singer-Songwriter and past president of the Chicago Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) who has testified in front of Congress about the Performance Rights Act
  • Alice also released a new CD Love Remains March 24th and you can find out more about her at AlicePeacock.com

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094 – A place to sing, some Legislation and a Recap

Recorded 10 March 2009

4-AM

  • I’ve talked about the new set we’ve put together. We’ve rehearsed it and we decided we’re ready to just get out there and kick the tires on this set. so we’re currently looking for a place to perform this set and we’re hoping it will be soon, so keep an eye out here or at 4-AM.net and you’ll know about it as soon as we do.
  • This isn’t 4-AM specific, but a few shows back I talked about the difference between Facebook pages and groups and said that I had a 4-AM Facebook page and switched my With A Voice Like This group to a page. And wouldn’t you know it, just after I did all the switching, they’re changing up how pages work. So I talk a little about it.

News You can Use

  • I got an e-mail forwarded to me  from the Chicago National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS, think Grammy) about the Performance Right Act on which Congress is currently holding hearings. I hadn’t had the time yet to look at it much, but it’s all about legislating terrestrial radio to pay for playing music on air. I know I’ll be discussing it in a future show, hopefully with some guests, but you can get a jump start on the topic at Grammy.com/musicfirst.

[EDIT – 15 March 2009 – Since posting the notes for this show, the above link to Grammy.com/musicfirst has changed. The site it linked to at the time of the notes were posted is www.capwiz.com/musicfirstcoalition/home/ [UPDATE: This page has been disabled]. You can find out more about music FIRST at www.musicfirstcoalition.org .]

At Any Rate

  • And speaking of Performance Rights and paying for airplay, I recap the Musicians at Work Panel I sat on Monday night, put on by the Chicago Music Commission and the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Among other things we talked of copyright issues, how to start a podcast and many other things.
  • One of the other panelists, Jason Heath is quite an accomplished blogger and podcaster and you should take a listen and a look at his site, DoubleBassBlog.org and see what’s happening there.
  • One of the great things about the Musicians at Work Forum is the chance to meet other Chicago musicians. I got to meet Brian Mazzaferri and Mike Mentzer of I Fight Dragons and they were kind enough to give me a copy of their newest EP Cool is Just a Number. Check them out at IFightDragons.com

 

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Time to try it out Live

Well, we’re going to jump in with both feet. At our rehearsal on Wednesday we felt really good about the set and so we decided it’s time for a time honored tradition of finding a spot to try it out and see how it plays in front of a live audience. Not a full gig…But run the set as a whole. And do it as soon as possible.

That does a couple of things for us. It gives us extra motivation to work out all the tweaks we need to make now and it gives us the chance to get comfortable with the set. You know, kick the tires and see how it rides. So you might want to keep looking for us while we’re looking for the place we’ll play because it might happen pretty quickly. We’ll give you as much notice as we can, of course, but it’s likely to happen with a short turnaround time.

While you can look for us here (lets not be too obvious, Jim), you can also find us and become a fan of our Facebook page [Update:  The group is no longer, so the Facebook page doesn’t exist] and become a fan while you’re at it. Oh and don’t forget to come up and say after any gig you attend. We’re nice…And silly…And well, I could go on for awhile, but not now.

Time to try it out Live originally appeared on 4-AM on 6 March 2009.

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093 – Chicago Event Promoter Ordinance update with Members of the Chicago Music Commission Board of Directors

Recorded 3 March 2009

This episode’s guests were Paul Natkin, Interim Executive Director and Dan Lurie, Member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Music Commission and is about the latest version of the proposed Event Promoter Ordinance as discussed in their March 3 Press Release and blog post. As stated in the show itself, this is not necessarily the final version of the Ordinance to be taken to the City Council for a vote, nor has there been a date set for the vote. The topics covered in this show include:

  • A brief overview of the Ordinance itself
  • A brief overview of the changes from the last version in July of 2008

The following topics were covered based on the CMC’s Position Statement also made public today:

  • The CMC’s 3 objections to the ordinance as currently drafted
  • The 3 Fundamental concerns shared by the City and CMC
  • The CMC’s 5 Proposed solutions
  • Next steps

And lastly an overview of all the programs and offerings currently available through the Chicago Music Commission.

Additional links discussed in the show

In the way of full disclosure, it should be said that I am a member of the Chicago Music Commission’s Board of Advisors.

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