There’s nothing quite like the feel of summer, and wherever the GPS takes you in the coming months, we’ve compiled our ultimate summer road trip playlists for you in this week’s Tuesday Ten.
To the Academy Is …, the name “Santi” means many things, none of which make very much sense. “Adam [Siska], our bass player, had this enemy in high school whose last name was Santiago, but everyone called him Santi, and he had associates called, like, Panti, Canti and Fruscianti or something,” drummer Andy “the Butcher” Mrotek explained. “Adam always hated the name Santi, so to annoy him, we all started saying it instead of ‘thank you’ or ‘cheers’ or anything. So it started out as this incredibly stupid thing, the kind of stupid thing you do in a band on… Read more »
Conventional radio stations have long paid for the right to broadcast artists’ music. A system for Internet radio stations to do the same has been fought over for some time now, and while a government panel’s recommendation that online radio broadcasters pay royalty fees to recording companies finally gives artists some coin for their worldwide works, the ruling could also spell the end of some Internet broadcasters. A Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) filed a report to the U.S. Copyright Office on Wednesday, suggesting that conventional radio stations that stream their broadcasts online should pay 0.07 of a cent per… Read more »
