Ottawa’s Million Dollar Marxists aren’t letting those Ducks get them down. In fact, they’ve gone and booked themselves a Canadian tour in support of Zero Culture. The band hits the road on June 21st in Sudbury and will head west to BC and back.
Zero Culture was released in Canada in late 2006 via St. Catharines, Ontario based label Stumble Records. It followed up to the Gearhead released Give It A Name.
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Dates have been posted for the “Flip On A Tweak Realm and Set It (Off)” Tour featuring the Sleeping, A Day To Remember and Valeyra.
The bands will be supported by Envy on the Coast (7/06-7/17), A Thorn for Every Heart (7/18-8/03) and I Am the Avalanche (8/04-8/17).
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Ion Dissonance has posted another new track online entitled “Of Me Nobody Is Safe.” You can check it out on MySpace.
The band will be releasing their follow-up to Solace, Minus the Herd June 05, 2007.
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Ruiner has posted another new track online entitled “Kiss That M’Fer Good Night.” The new song will appear on the band’s Bridge Nine, debut full-length Prepare to Be Let Down. Prepare to Be Let Down is the follow-up to their 2005 1917 Records release What Could Possibly Go Right….
You can check out the new track on MySpace.
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The bands set to perform at this year’s Wakestock have been announced. The line up includes Protest The Hero, the Flatliners, Deftones, Goldfinger, Moneen, Fucked Up, Story Of The Year and many others. For updates and a full list check the festival’s website.
Wakestock is currently in it’s 10th year and will run from Thursday, July 26 through to Sunday, July 29. The event features four days of World Series Wakeboarding, other sporting events, three stages of music and other festival events. The event takes place on Centre Island, of the Toronto Islands.
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Live365 Joins Filing for Emergency Stay of New Royalty Rate Increases
Foster City, CA—Mark Lam, CEO of Live365 Inc. joined other Internet radio companies today to submit an affidavit in support of a motion for an emergency stay to halt a steep increase in sound recording royalty rates. On March 2nd, 2007 the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) imposed new royalty rates that threaten to bankrupt Internet radio stations like Live365.
“Look, when ALL Internet radio companies, large and small, are fighting the CRB decision the result is obviously flawed. Live365 is one of the top 4 royalty payers to SoundExchange and I can tell you we’ve never made a profit. Now they want to increase music label profits by arbitrarily increasing rates by 44%, 84%, 136% to 150% over four years! They also increased rates on National Public Radio and college stations. I don’t see any consideration for the public interest in the CRB’s deliberations: it was flawed.
Make no mistake, we want to pay a fair royalty to artists. We have been paying songwriters for their copyright royalties for years and you don’t hear complaints about that. But the new rates are insanely high and will kill Internet radio.”
Background on Live365
Established in 1997, Live365 (www.live365.com) is the world’s largest Internet radio network that hosts nearly 10,000 stations and streams music to more than 4 million listeners a month. Its mission is to make it affordable and easy for individuals to start their own radio stations and share their love for music to listeners around the world. Live365 has gone to great lengths to provide a legal and equitable means to stream music to listeners while paying royalties for the right to do so.
Here are some very interesting quotes from the filing:
Page 5: Appellants have contacted both the Clerk's Office and opposing counsel advising them of this Motion. Appellants have sought the consent of Appellees CRB and SoundExchange, Inc. ("SoundExchange") to the relief requested by this Application. Neither Appellee has provided consent.
Page 7: The irreparable harm manifests itself in different ways for different Appellants, but one common thread runs throughout: absent a stay prior to the effective initial payment date of July 15, 2007, the decision will cause wide-scale shutdowns of Appellants' webcasting offerings.
Page 8: Absent a stay, Live365 will be forced to shut down on July 15, 2007. (As will GR1 and GR2)
Page 8: For four of the SCWs (Small Commercial Webcasters) that participated before the CRB, royalties will increase from 11% of revenues under the pre-existing rate structure to 300% of revenues in 2006, 306.5% of revenues in 2007, and 345% of revenues in 2008 – royalty increases of over 2,000%.
Page 9: Unless stayed, the Final Determination will cause NPR substantially to reduce its online radio offerings as of July 15, 2007.
Page 9: The Final Determination will lead to the loss of many diverse sources of music. It will have a devastating impact on independent artists, small stations, and audiences. Quite literally, the date on which the Final Determination becomes effective will be "the day the music dies" for online radio. A stay pending appeal thus is urgently needed.
Page 20: The rates imposed by the CRB could not possibly comply with the "willing-buyer willing-seller" standard of 5 114(f)(2)(B), because no "willing buyer" would ever agree to the ruinous royalty levels contained in the Final Determination.
Page 23: The statutory factors demonstrate that online radio should be encouraged, not punished with higher royalties.
Page 23: There is no doubt that the Final Determination will have an imminent, certain, and devastating impact on online radio.
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Matador Records has unveiled the first song from the New Pornographers‘ upcoming full length Challengers. It’s been confirmed that the 12 song full length, the Vancouver indie supergroup’s fourth, will arrive on August 21st in the US. There’s no word yet on who’s picking up the Canadian release. The album kicks off with the song “My Rights Versus Yours,” which is now available for download.
The folks at Pitchfork have more details, indicating that 9 tracks on the record were penned by Carl Newman with the other three credited to Destroyer‘s Dan Bejar. Newman, Bejar, Neko Case and Immaculate Machine’s Kathryn Calder all provide vocals.
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Brooklyn-based noise punk act Parts and Labor have announced a tour in support of their new Jagjaguwar full length, Mapmaker. The band will be performing for about a month in the US beginning at the end of the June.
Apparently taking this guy to heart, New Jersey-based Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start has titled their upcoming record in a way that will probably satisfy both fans and detractors. The record is titled Worst Band Name Ever and is due out June 05, 2007.
The self-released, self-recorded / produced record is being made available directly from the band. It includes ten songs, a video for the song “I’ll Thank You Later,” guitar tabs for the entire album, a mix tape featuring 18 of the band’s favorite indie artists and links to over 40 free mp3 downloads from previous recordings.
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The shortlist of bands playing this years Cutting Edge Music Festival have been announced. Playing over 2 days on 2 stages in Grand Bend, Ontario will be Alexisonfire, Moneen, Social Code, Protest the Hero, MSTRKRFT, The Reason, The Junction, Ten Second Epic, illScarlett, Attack in Black and more.
The Canadian festival will take place in Grand Bend, Ontario at the Grand Bend Motorplex. It is set for the August 3rd to 6th. You can find more details on the official website.
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Burlington, Ontario’s Silverstein have posted a new track from their upcoming album. The record is titled Arrivals And Departures and is due out July 03, 2007. It is the follow-up to 18 Candles: The Early Years which was released in 2006.
You can find “Sound of the Sun” on their myspace page.
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Boys Night Out has posted an e-card featuring new music from their forthcoming self-titled effort, which is due out June 26, 2007.
You can check out the e-card here.
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Eulogy Recordings act Thick as Blood have posted new music on MySpace in the form of two tracks entitled “2005” and “Hopeless.” Both songs will appear on the band’s forthcoming July 10 release Moment of Truth.
You can check out the new songs on MySpace.
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