Whitee - Purveyor of Fine Beats...Provider of Lyrical Treats
Music, culture & politics. We'll also update Whitee's recording progress.Tuesday, January 09, 2007
As our target date for the first podcast approaches, there's been a few interesting developments...
Playing music on a podcast is a bitch. The record industry, in it's ultimate wisdom, has put it's legal chokehold on people like me who have no intention of making money off of a show like the one we're going to do. So if we want to play, Stairway to Heaven, for example, we need the licensing rights. Radio stations have to do it, so do bars that have live entertainment. This consists of paying the 4 publishing companies a buttload of money. It involves paperwork and keeping track of this crap. Well, F-that.
What we've started doing is asking individual artists for permission to play music that we already have. Are we going to Bono? No. U2 is probably not getting played on this show. But I have had e-mail contact with some interesting artists - not representatives, but the artists themselves. Who? Chuck D, Marc Maron, Joy Eden Harrison, Jimi Hazel from 24-7 Spyz, Ron from Hotel X, some unknown dude from Bakra Bata, Kellye Gray, Wally Pleasant, Deborah Magone, Ron from M'Lumbo and more. We also talked to reps for Will Hoge, Chuck Mangione, Kitty Margolis, and a rep for the Rogue's Gallery collection, which is going to be cool. We also got permission from Evidence Music to play stuff from whatever releases of there's we have. And there are a couple dozen more artists we're still waiting to hear from.
A couple of people actually offered to send us copies of new stuff as we plan on using stuff that's already in our music collection.
So here's what we're going to do music-wise - there's a bunch of CD's I have from labels that have folded, or independent artists I can't find. We're going to go ahead and use their music. As we're not making money from the show, I'm pretty sure everyone's going to be cool with it - if they ever find out. We also will be using stuff from the people I listed above. It's going to be a nice, eclectic mix. But there'll be talk and other surprises on the show so overall, it's going to be a nice, little show. More details on the talk-part later.
Playing music on a podcast is a bitch. The record industry, in it's ultimate wisdom, has put it's legal chokehold on people like me who have no intention of making money off of a show like the one we're going to do. So if we want to play, Stairway to Heaven, for example, we need the licensing rights. Radio stations have to do it, so do bars that have live entertainment. This consists of paying the 4 publishing companies a buttload of money. It involves paperwork and keeping track of this crap. Well, F-that.
What we've started doing is asking individual artists for permission to play music that we already have. Are we going to Bono? No. U2 is probably not getting played on this show. But I have had e-mail contact with some interesting artists - not representatives, but the artists themselves. Who? Chuck D, Marc Maron, Joy Eden Harrison, Jimi Hazel from 24-7 Spyz, Ron from Hotel X, some unknown dude from Bakra Bata, Kellye Gray, Wally Pleasant, Deborah Magone, Ron from M'Lumbo and more. We also talked to reps for Will Hoge, Chuck Mangione, Kitty Margolis, and a rep for the Rogue's Gallery collection, which is going to be cool. We also got permission from Evidence Music to play stuff from whatever releases of there's we have. And there are a couple dozen more artists we're still waiting to hear from.
A couple of people actually offered to send us copies of new stuff as we plan on using stuff that's already in our music collection.
So here's what we're going to do music-wise - there's a bunch of CD's I have from labels that have folded, or independent artists I can't find. We're going to go ahead and use their music. As we're not making money from the show, I'm pretty sure everyone's going to be cool with it - if they ever find out. We also will be using stuff from the people I listed above. It's going to be a nice, eclectic mix. But there'll be talk and other surprises on the show so overall, it's going to be a nice, little show. More details on the talk-part later.
Labels: independent music, podcast
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