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- Ahoy! Pirate Party gets berth in European Parliament
- Kevin Hunt | The Electronic Jungle
- Music festival brings ‘love’ to city once again
- A Minimalist Who Accepts Inspiration From a Maximalist Tradition
- Female Drummer Kicks ff Festival With Post-Bop and Shades of …
- New ‘Woodstock’ DVD lets fans have a virtual festival
Ahoy! Pirate Party gets berth in European Parliament
CNET News
The party was founded in 2006 and that year gained only 0. 63 percent of the votes in Swedish parliamentary elections. But since then it has attracted members during the debate on several controversial laws that authorize monitoring of electronic communications and that make it easier to police file sharing on the Internet. It is now Sweden’s third biggest party by membership. Its ranks swelled when. html” >four men were sentenced to prison in the high-profile Pirate Bay case in April. People use Web sites like The Pirate Bay to transfer movies and music a practice that has drawn the ire–and the lawyers–of Hollywood studios and the recording industry.
Kevin Hunt | The Electronic Jungle
Baltimore Sun
Look what it has done to the music industry Hollywood and (self-pity alert) dear old newspapers. The radio industry looks like it swallowed a fistful of bad pistachios too after a challenge from satellite radio and even more ominously a shift toward Internet radio and do-it-yourself online music services like Pandora. The $150 Livio Radio could be the home radio from hell for the industry. It’s an unconventional Linux-driven Wi-Fi-enabled table model that combines Pandora with 11000 online stations collected by British radio portal Reciva. Missing notably is an old standby AM or FM tuner for local broadcasts that run local advertisements.
Music festival brings ‘love’ to city once again
Hürriyet
In addition to these famous stars there will be performances by M83 Portecho Ay??n Yasemin Mori Bora Uzer DearHead Jonny Rock Bat?kas?d Style-ist and other DJ sets will continue until the early morning light. Expanding into a larger area this year the festival will feature shows in tto Santral and Tamirane the two on-campus bars in addition to the performances on the main stage. The two bars which hold electronic-music performances throughout the year will mostly host DJ sets that will start simultaneously with the stage performances. Aeroplane which blends cosmic nu-disco psychedelic and emo tunes and electronic rockers Filthy Dukes will play at tto Santral while the Grammy-nominated British trip-hop duo Zero 7 will perform at Tamirane. First-day performer Tricky is mostly known for his rapping with Massive Attack. The talented musician 41 has also worked with many other acclaimed artists such as Bj? Greg Cohen Damon Albarn of Blur Alison Goldfrapp Alanis Morisette and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Another highly anticipated festival act Klaxons is expected to bring charisma and style to the stage in its Saturday set.
A Minimalist Who Accepts Inspiration From a Maximalist Tradition
New York Times
Also on the program was Brian Eno’s “Discreet Music. ” Blog.
Female Drummer Kicks ff Festival With Post-Bop and Shades of …
New York Times
Her intently exploratory mind-set presents one ideal for the monthlong series; her sex presents another. The phrase “women in jazz” is nowhere to be found in Bloom Festival promotional materials but it’s certainly no accident that each of its headliners is female. n Thursday night the festival’s kickoff slot fell to Allison Miller an assertive drummer with an active hand in rock as well as jazz. Leading a quartet called Boom Tic Boom Ms.
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New ‘Woodstock’ DVD lets fans have a virtual festival
Boston Herald
“I think this is going to be the future of what filmmakers will do” Wadleigh said in a recent phone interview from the small island he owns off the coast of Maine. “With the ease of electronic distribution people will say: Let’s take some scenes that shouldn’t be in the movie but it would be fun to show them to the public. I don’t think that’s shoddy or just moneymaking. In that sense the new DVD continues the movie’s mission to bring the festival to the masses. Billed as “An Aquarian Exposition” The Woodstock Music & Art Fair — more than three chaotic but largely peaceful days of concerts Aug. 15-18 1969 — attracted close to half a million people and became one of the counterculture’s defining moments.
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