Month: April 2007

Okay, so this is my April 2007 mix:

  1. “Hold Tight” by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
  2. “Full Moon, Empty Heart” by Belly
  3. “No Self Control” by Peter Gabriel
  4. “The Crystal Method vs. the Doors (Roadhouse Blues Remix)” by the Crystal Method
  5. “Ignorance is Bliss” by Jellyfish
  6. “1234” by Feist
  7. “I’m Done” by Kupek
  8. “Big Wheel” by Tori Amos
  9. “How Lucky Am I” by Maggie Gyllehaal
  10. “Congratulations” by Kaza Suzanne & the Gojo Hearts
  11. “The Songs That We Sing” by Charlotte Gainsbourg
  12. “Thunder Road” by Bruce Springsteen

As always, the offer stands for trade, if any of this sounds interesting, or if you’ve got music you’d like to share.

Not that I need any more music right now — my self-imposed twelve song limit was very difficult this month — but I’ve been a little disappointed that only one person’s taken me up on the mix trade.

Anyway, those are the songs. Let me know if you’re interested.

You may have heard about royalty rates going up (and up, up, up) for internet radio broadcasters. As Glen points out, it’s worse than you thought:

So. SoundExchange – which is in the pocket of the RIAA – collects funds for people it does not represent, regardless of whether or not they want those funds collected, then holds onto those funds unless those people pay for them. In fact, if you remember last year’s massive list of artists who had not collected their royalties yet, SoundExchange has a very sweet deal. If you don’t collect the royalties by the end of the year, you don’t get those royalties ever – they pocket whatever they don’t disburse. Every year.

How can this sort of thing possibly be legal?

I’m not really sure how I feel about recently announced plans for a comic-book sixth season of Angel. On the one hand, I hated when show was cancelled, and I’ll probably pick up anything with Joss Whedon attached to it. But on the other hand, I think I’m one of those fans who do regard the show’s finale as about as perfect an ending as you can get. I almost don’t want to know what happens next.

Link via Backwards City.

I find this a whole lot cooler than it probably is, but Hacking Netflix reports that “the Exeter Library in Rhode Island has subscribed to Netflix, and if they don’t have a movie in stock you can request that they rent it for you.”

I don’t usually take movies out from my own local library — there are hefty fines if they’re not returned practically the next day, and I already subscribe to Netflix myself — but I like this because it’s something that didn’t even exist as an option a few years ago.