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The Fold Recording Journal #2

January 8, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

The Fold have posted another update from the studio. Check it out below.

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Free Days Away Album

January 8, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson 1 Comment

Days Away has put their album Mapping An Invisible World up for free download on their PureVolume page. An update from the band can be found below.

“We have been keeping quiet about what’s going on with new music, well we are stoked to be recording our new EP soon and we have already made a video for the first single called ‘I’m Sorry I Told You All My Problems'”

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A Perfect Murder Record New Album

January 8, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

A Perfect Murder will officially enter the studio on January 29 to record their third Victory Records release. War Of Aggression is expected to be released worldwide on June 12.

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Stream The Good The Bad & The Queen

January 8, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

The Good, The Bad and The Queen are streaming their new album on their MySpace page prior to the album release on January 23.

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The Exies Releaes New Video, Tour Dates

January 8, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

The Exies have released their new video for “Different Than You,” the first single from their upcoming album. The band will also be out on tour with Buckcherry and Three Days Grace starting January 15th, tour dates can be found below.

“Different Than You” music video
Quicktime | Windows

Upcoming Exies Tour Dates (*= w/Buckhcerry & Three Days Grace)

01/15 – Farmington, NM – Gator’s
01/16 – Colorado Springs – Black Sheep
01/19 – Columbus, OH – The LC Pavilion *
01/20 – Ft. Wayne, IN – Piere’s *
01/21 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s *
01/23 – Libertyville, IL – Austin’s Saloon *
01/24 – Springfield, MO – Oasis *
01/26 – Little Rock, AR – Clear Channel Metroplex *
01/27 – Dallas, TX – Palladium Ballroom *
01/28 – Corpus Christi, TX – The Pavilion @ Concrete Street *
01/30 – Houston, TX – Scout Bar
01/31 – Beaumont, TX – Antone’s
02/02 – Amarillo, TX – Radio Show

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The Panic Division Post New Demo

January 8, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

The Panic Division have posted a new demo titled “Your Satellite” on their MySpace page. An update from the band can be found below.

We are currently taking time off of touring to write our 2nd album. The new songs are sounding amazing. Expect more electronics and a much more mature level of music. We are deciding on producers to record the next album and then its off to the studio to make it happen! Be patient, we are getting close! Ԛ 

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Fall Out Boy on 2007 Honda Civic Tour

January 8, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson Leave a Comment

Fall Out boy will be headlining the 2007 Honda Civic Tour starting this April. Tour dates and support will be announced soon.

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Any Xbox 360 fans?

January 8, 2007 By Tyler Hayes 1 Comment

Yesterday at Microsoft’s CES keynote they announced that they would be adding IPTV to the 360. The (Internet Protocol Television) service will offer live streaming broadcasts, and do stuff like let you play a game on Xbox Live while recording a show in the background. Read more about it here

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Site Updates

January 7, 2007 By Bryce Jacobson 1 Comment

Its time to start featuring bands again. Check out this weeks featured bands Switchfoot and Self Against City.

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Article #2 – DRM

January 6, 2007 By Tyler Hayes 7 Comments

DRM is the same thing as the record labels and some content providers saying “I’m Scared”. DRM (the cute way of saying Digital rights management) locks Music, movies, and any other type of content to a specific way of using it. An example of this would be buying a song from itunes but not being able to play the song without an iPod or the itunes media player. Another example would be Microsoft’s Playsforsure. The clever name is not very descriptive though because Playsforsure DRM does not work with every mp3 player (ex. Microsoft’s own Zune).

The internet tubes are filled with anti-DRM propaganda, and so I will spare you all the reasons that DRM is evil because at the end of the day it does that on its own. Rather Iâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢d like to spend a few minutes going over the opposite, and all the positive things about DRM free content.

The Compact Disc was such a great way to deliver music to a paying customer. I say was because in the age of downloads, the CD appears to be one the way out. However if I were the record companies I would be pushing CD’s now more than ever. CD’s are a way they can still feel safe and people can then do use the content they purchased to listen it in whichever way they prefer. My temporary suggestion to the dilemma that people run into would be “The Ten Dollar CD”. $10 seems to me to be a sweet spot, so why not suck in a little bit of the greed [record labels] and sell every CD for ten bucks?

I know I would seem to be trying to hold on to the past. With 13 billion songs (or whatever the number) sold on itunes, the general public looks to be saying that they want the convenience of buying songs online. It’s funny I use the word convenience because owning a song that you have to go through many illegal steps to get it to play where you want it to is not convenient. The opposite of DRM is freedom right? Well what’s the opposite of downloading a song? I guess the closest thing would be going to the store and buying a CD. As of right now there’s only one or the other. You can’t have freedom in a download. So what is the answer? I guess it’s to buy a CD, or download from the DRM free Emusic.com, or listen to the radio, or give up music. The answer is not Digital Rights Management.

 

Just a few bands and labels you’ll
find on www.Emusic.com

-Vagrant Records
-The Militia Group
-Doghouse Records

-Sufjan Stevens
-Dashboard Confessional
-MxPx
-Copeland

There is also www.downloadpunk.com
which is in the business of non-DRM mp3’s

More Links where you can find more info about DRM and alternatives

Defective By Design: Against DRM, points out the fact that this copy protection is crippled from the start.
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/en/about

Wikipedia: Information about which devices use DRM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management#Devices_that_use_DRM

DRM.info: Article giving reasons to care about this
http://www.drm.info/fsfe/why

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