Music: Next Stop ... Farm Aid
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The cityâs first Farm Aid concert in the 22 years will feature nearly two dozen roots-rock, country and jam bands, and also promote organic food production and consumption.
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Twenty years after the all-star charity single &quot;Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas?&quot; raised money to provide famine relief to Ethiopia and inspired the star-studded Live Aid benefit concert, some of today&#39;s top British acts plan to record a new version of the
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With readers' help, Listening Post ferrets out a new digital-music project ramping up in San Diego. It's still under wraps but vets from iRiver, Rio and Musicmatch are involved. In Listening Post.
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The grants aim to provide the rural poor with better seeds, healthier soil and access to new markets for their crops.
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The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area.
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it made Band Aid 20&#39;s charity single &#39;Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas&#39; available through it&#39;s iTunes Music Store this
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In this second and final part I'll demonstrate some of the loop-specific tools I've found in Ardour, Reaper, and Audacity. Tutorials and links to project demos are included, so warm up your headphones and let's get loopy.
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In the coming weeks and months you'll probably see me writing about issues of podcatchers here, because I'm working on one. It's the third one I've written, so this time maybe I'll get it right.  A lot of things have changed since I wrote my first podcatcher back in 2001. 1. Back then there were no podcasts, so it was a proof of concept, a chicken without an egg (or an egg with no chicken), a step in a bootstrap. Today there are lots of podcasts. An embarassment of riches. 2. Back then implementing a podcatcher was simple, there was exactly one format to support, RSS 2.0 with enclosures. Today, luckily, it's still fairly simple, as far as the format goes. The only variability is the iTunes namespace, which complicates things, just a little.  3. Today there are enough users to make it possible to support lists of podcasts published by fans, and instead of just subscribing to the podcast feeds, you can subscribe to lists of feeds. I will publish one of these lists, in OPML 2.0 format, as a proof of concept.  4. The first version of this new podcatcher will run in the OPML Editor because that's where all my software runs at first. But the goal is to port it to run in other environments, some with millions of users. I want to provide a popular alternative to the one that Apple publishes which currently dominates the market. (Note: I'm generally pleased with the way Apple dominates, they've been very fair about allowing users to export their subscription lists. But if we want to create the opportunity for others to innovate in the area of podcast players, there has to be choice at the podcatcher level. That's my main motive for revisiting this area.) There probably are some other changes, and I'll write about them as the project moves forward. Now.... To people who say that Apple has the market sewn up, I say Bah! I think iPods are great, but they're designed to play music, not podcasts. Every bit of music is something you want to keep forever, a podcast loses almost all its value after you've listened to it once. You have to pay for music (in theory at least) but podcasts are free.  Podcasts beg to have a player that can download them without synching with a desktop computer. Okay that's something podcasts have in common with music.  I buy Apple products all the time. I've gone from resenting Apple so much that I wouldn't buy their products, as recently as 2005, to today when not only do I only use Macs, but I'm constantly telling people why they'd be better off using Macs. I can't help but evangelize the products, I think they're that much better than Windows PCs.  But as much as I love Apple (can't believe I actually said that) I still don't trust them with a whole medium. We need them to have competition. The rest of the tech industry seems to think they're immune to it, that creates a huge opportunity with someone with enough chutzpah to think they can do it. Yours truly, Dave Winer
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Sir Paul McCartney is the latest star to sign up for the new Band Aid charity single, to be released this month.
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I'm not gay. Thanks for not asking And Ninthly Stunted by the eclipse of justice, Little Johnny Walker made his way over to the piano. He played a sad tune. One full of preambles, bees and summer vegetables. It made the women of the night cry, and the men of strong moral fiber tense. Jesus breathed easier that night. We all did. A Butter Dish for Beelzebub by Julio Stantoreâ¦
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Sir Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Bob Dylan...50 Cent? The times   really are a-changing.
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By CAROL SIMMONS STAFF WRITER  Island MetroPark's 2007 series of free concerts in the park's band shell kicks off today with a contemporary gospel show presented by WFCJ (93.7-FM).
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Fans braved cold, wet weather to be part of the 19th annual Farm Aid concert held on Saturday, which included performances by founders Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young.
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To: MUSIC EDITORS  Contact: Brandi Dobbins, June 11 & 12: +1-703-307-8891, After June 11: +1-202-331-4323 x 1038, bdobbins@vancomm.com, for Farm Aid 2007   NEW YORK, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Alongside farmers and food buyers at Union Square's Greenmarket, Mayor Michael R.
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REM are to headline a gig in London supporting Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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By Subhadra Devan  THE new Brit MySpace sensation just wanted to make music, discovers SUBHADRA DEVAN. "Fields. Cows. Sheep. A few shops. Some people. And one club that plays terrible music. That's Dumfries.
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John Mellencamp never figured Farm Aid would still be needed now, 21 years after its debut as one of many moments of musicians trying to do good in the 1980s. "We thought we'd have the concert and the government would change things," he said before taking stage at the nearly annual concert Saturday.