Well-Rounded Radio on GigaDial Public: Recent Episodes
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Well-Rounded Radio connects listeners to great music happening outside the mainstream, gives them a behind-the-scenes look at its creation, and lets them sample it within each interview.
Like Garrison Keillor for the martini set these modern urban fairy tales delve into the exotic lives of the terminally stylish bon vivant habitues of the Royal Palm Court Lounge in downtown Swanktown. Original stories and jazz.
In the last KnitCast of 2005 I catch up with the internationally renowned British designer Debbie Bliss at the Knitting and Stitching Show. Debbie tells me about her design process and what she has planned for 2006. www.knitcast.com
Finally the new episode of We Make Tha Call....
Dick Cheney hunting quail or ostrich?
Rush Limbaugh addicted to the poor mans heroin (Oxycotin addiction)Brad and Angelina With a slightly new format and of course a new single from THC appropriately named "New Shit"
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Since 2001, Brad Powell has been the shopkeep for what he describes as a "carefully curated boutique" of music from all over the world. As he describes in the Well-Rounded Radio interview, Calabash Music now features several thousand artists and about 20,000 individual tracks. He's now attracting musicians from around the world who want to be included in their catalogue. Calabash Music's tagline is "The World's First Fair Trade Music Company" and their site says it best: "Our business model presents a new opportunity for sustainable economic development from independent music sales in developing regions around the world. All of the music in our catalog is licensed from independent artists or small, independent labels. We've established an Equal Exchange/Fair Trade model in which independent artists get at least 50% of all retail sales." For more details about this hour-long interview, visit Well-Rounded Radio.
SoccerGossip.comShow#4 on October 19th, 2005. The English Premier League is back, so BeatleManU does his usual roundup of the weekends fixtures. Added to that, Champions League Matchday 3 and a roundup of European World Cup Qualifiers, we have quite a big show!!!
In August 2003, Holmes Wilson and Nicholas Reville created Downhill Battle, a music activism organization that wants to create a decentralized music business and a level playing field for independent musicians and labels.
Now, along with fellow Downhill Battlers Tiffiniy Cheng, Nick Nassar, Rebecca Laurie, and a handful of other dedicated staffers, Reville and Wilson work with a myriad of volunteers to spread the word around the US and around the world.Downhill Battle's web site states its plan is "to explain how the major [record labels] really work, develop software to make filesharing stronger, rally public support for a legal p2p compensation system, and connect independent music scenes with the free culture movement."
At first blush, looking at their web site makes it seem like they're doing something absolutely radical, but that's probably only because we've all been conditioned by the last one hundred years of the developments in intellectual property, the rise of the music industry, and the general corporatization of art.But, it's really just about who holds the power.