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Every day Riffage presents a featured artist, offering up downloadable songs from a performer who's usually unsigned or on a tiny, independent label. The acts are chosen by Riffage staff members (they draw from music submitted to the site), and Riffage's users rate the music and post reviews. Last week one of the showcased acts was a San Francisco-based country group called the Court and Spark (a user named Rodco called the band "supercool mood country"). Using a 56K modem, it took a mind-numbing 2 hr. 20 min. to download the band's track Sugar...
...recent pick by the alternative-rock duo Tegan and Sara was particularly good). In addition, the site held a "Land Your Band" contest in which groups were rated by iCAST users, with the highest-rated act (the rock group Laughing Colors, based in Annapolis, Md.) winning meetings with major-label executives. "I kind of laugh at all this Napster stuff," says Laughing Colors lead singer Dave Tieff. "At our stage, offering free tracks makes sense. We're trying to get noticed, and promotions like this are a tool." Tieff says sales of the group's independently released CDs (available...
Lofty allusions to copyright sanctity and public morality from both sides cannot hide the fact that the metaphorically big, fat, slow RIAA got outrun by the agile Napster in this technology race. Simply put, no major record label website puts so much music online. No major record label site is as easy...
Tracy told me I could join them on their first action: a supermarket raid for which I'd wear a giant chicken suit and label chicken products with stickers that read WARNING: THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS THE DECOMPOSING CORPSE OF A SMALL TORTURED BIRD. When I asked her about the possibility of getting arrested, she said, "For people who work hard, jail offers a nice time just to relax." I told Tracy that things were probably a little different in the men's jail than in the women's. "When you're in jail, it's good to remember that there...
...reduce the number of abortions." Myers replied, "It sounds like you agree with your mother-in-law," referring to Barbara Bush's quiet pro-choice stance. "Now, that's what you said, Lisa," Bush responded, chuckling. "Not me. No, I don't want to put a label on myself." It worked for Barbara - there's no reason it can't work for Laura...