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Jack FM is on to something, and listeners in Dallas are resetting their radios at a breakneck pace. "This station just makes sense," says Richard Lovett, 38, owner of Dallas Home Renovations. "If I want talk, I'll listen to sports-talk radio. But I want to hear music throughout the workday." Kathy Reinisch, 43, of Fort Worth, loves that she and her 17-year-old son can enjoy the same radio station. "When I used to rock out in the car, he'd complain until I turned the channel. Now songs he likes play right after mine...
...perfect example is in the song “The Farewell Transmission,” when Molina closes with the lyrics, “Through the static and distance, a farewell transmission: listen.” In this passage, you can hear his voice nearly break with seemingly genuine exhaustion and desperation. It’s this sheer channeling of raw emotion that makes singers great: Dylan, Jim Morrison, Jeff Tweedy...
...rock and hip-hop. These days most bookstores stock a few odd volumes on a back shelf, and most of those are written by Jewel. But people are still writing poetry and finding ways to say things no other medium can--if you have the time to stop and listen...
...stop: sampling, copying, remixing and circulating their songs online for free. Under a novel licensing scheme called Creative Commons (CC), developed by Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, artists can publish their work under middle-ground protection as "some rights reserved" instead of "all rights reserved." That way, others can listen to or remix the work--usually for noncommercial purposes. "Technology gives us opportunity, and I wanted to make sure the law wasn't stopping people from creating," says Lessig. Although there are six different CC licenses, most artists choose from the noncommercial ones, preserving their rights for uses like advertising...
...perverting the true meaning of religion (in different ways, to different degrees) for their political gains. They will tell you that just because religion is used for evil doesn’t mean it can’t be used for good too. I hope more people listen to those voices...