Techdirt has a great post on this, as well as Dr. Michael Geist. Apparently Canadian musicians like the Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan have stood up and said they do not agree with the record industry, and that they don’t want to sue their fans, nor impose DRM schemes on them. This is wonderful, and I applaud them! I think more artists ought to stand up and say what the RIAA is doing is unethical and just plain wrong.
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Just designed two new websites
My wife teaches piano lessons to children and adults, and has also started to do primer music camps for children, so I designed two websites for her. The first is Fun Piano Lessons and the other is Fun Music Camps.
I want to point them out because I’m using the WordPress CMS to drive the sites, yet you won’t be able to tell that at first look. I designed completely custom templates for each that hide the usual WordPress functionality, so the sites look like normal websites, yet everything on them can be updated on the fly. Of course, I used pure CSS to drive the layout, styles, colors and graphics.
The other cool thing is that it only took me a day to do each site. That’s the power of leveraging the WordPress CMS platform! One can focus on the design aspects and the content, and leave the back end to WordPress. Why reinvent the wheel, right?
Tunes for 'Toons Screening
From Cartoon Brew: “Next Saturday, April 29th, ASIFA-Hollywood is holding a special film program and lecture illustrating the world of music as seen through classic Hollywood cartoons. Animation historian Daniel Goldmark will be discussing the story behind the musicians who made our favorite musical cartoons.” Here’s the link.
Congrats to Rich Price
Just found out he went to Midd, my alma mater. His song, “I’m on my way”, was featured on the Shrek 2 soundtrack. Way to go, Rich! Here is the link.
Let's buy some music
TechCrunch has a review of music services currently available, and their side-by-side comparison is pretty good, but they forgot to include eMusic.
My wife and I use eMusic, and we think it’s pretty darn good! I wish they’d included it in their list of reviewed services.
They mentioned AllofMP3 among the services they reviewed, but it is a quasi-legal site – I can’t imagine the artists are getting properly paid for their music at $0.09/song, and I don’t know if they even signed deals with the site. While the price may be tempting, I have a feeling that site will get turned off or made to charge more at some point in the future.
eMusic at least has deals with each of the artists on the site, and they’re completely legitimate. The downloads are fast, the selection is growing, and the music is not hamstrung by silly DRM schemes. Along with the iTunes service, it is what Ligia and I use regularly.
Raoul Pop 