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Eddie, Jason & Chris Show

EJC – April 11th & 14th


Eddie Jason & Chris are back with an all new live show tonight at 9p ET after  The Mike Herrera Hour, and Monday at 8pm ET following  Full Frontal. This week, EJC celebrates their ReverbNation Artist of the Month, Palaye Royale! They’re a hard working and unsigned indie band that does it all, from directing their own music videos to handling their own social media. The Ends Beginning is their debut EP, available now on iTunes. Take a look at Palaye Royale’s music video for “Get Higher “: httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3feE0RCLsw As always, EJC will discuss current events, pull off outrageous prank… Read more »

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Green Day ditches punk on 'Breakdown'


Green Day has been delivering power-punk to the mainstream  since Billie Joe Armstrong clutched a monkey in “Longview” nearly 15 years ago.   The trio has done it all with one foot firmly entrenched in its hometown East Bay punk scene, stating its allegiance to gutter punks and Gilman Street at every possible chance. It’s been both a blessing and a curse, eternally indebted to the past, but inching ever closer to the future. With the reigning punk royalty out of the picture the past couple years, the number of punk releases declined sharply. Anyone hoping Green Day would bring… Read more »

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Silversun Pickups say "Swoon" is 'time capsule'


When the Silversun Pickups were writing “Swoon,”  the follow-up to their breakout “Carnavas” album, they were given access to parts of the universe where mere mortals dare not tread. And they soaked in them. “We were on jets that landed on hovercrafts that rolled us onto Jacuzzi-shaped planes,” frontman Brian Aubert laughed. “And on one Jacuzzi plane, there was a submarine, and that was the VIP, and that was going crazy. And that’s where we wrote the album. We wrote “Swoon” on the backs of hookers. In crayon.” He’s kidding. But there’s no denying that the past few years have… Read more »

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Perry's catchy putdowns put flash over substance


Katy Perry opened the set to the prerecorded strains of Queen’s “Killer Queen” and covered that band’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” as an encore. During her 75-minute homecoming set Saturday night at the Wiltern Perry revealed that she’s also royalty of some sort: She’s the queen of putdown pop. Pop music’s It Girl sang of boys who aren’t men but “manikins,” run “hot and cold” and are “so gay.. but don’t even like boys.” The young sold-out crowd ate it up, thinking it was not only catchy but also edgy pop with an attitude. Those with a bit more experience,… Read more »

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'Thriller' director sues Michael Jackson


Director John Landis sued Michael Jackson and a Broadway producer on Wednesday, claiming the pair lack the proper rights to adapt a stage production based on “Thriller.” Landis, who co-wrote and directed the groundbreaking music video sued the pop star and producer James L. Nederlander’s company over the possible show. Nederlander announced earlier this week that it had acquired the rights to “Thriller” and songs from Jackson’s blockbuster album of the same name. Landis’ lawsuit seeks a judge’s order that Jackson lacks the adequate rights to transfer to Nederlander, and that the producer doesn’t have the authority to create a… Read more »

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Music's Long Tail Just Got A Lot Shorter


173,000 of the 1.23M albums available sold at least 1 copy last year That means 85% of albums did move a single copy all year. 80% of of all single track sales revenue came from 52,000 tracks All this is according to a new study by Will Page, chief economist of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, the UK based not-for-profit royalty collection society. Does this mean that we should all be back to chasing hits? No, but if correct, the study should remind us that making music available for sale is the beginning and not the end.

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CBS to run Yahoo's Internet radio service


DENVER —  Chalk up another Internet radio casualty of significantly increased royalty fees for airing music online. Yahoo Music once the top music destination on the Web, is handing over the bulk of its Launchcast Internet radio operations to CBS Radio. Under a deal closely resembling that between CBS Radio and Launchast rival AOL Radio, CBS Radio is taking over all advertising-sales operations, licensing and technology decisions for the Launchcast service. That includes replacing the Launchcast desktop music player with a co-branded one provided by CBS. CBS also will add all of its Internet radio stations to those available through… Read more »

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Music Groups Agree to Online Music Royalties Deal


Record labels, music publishers, songwriters and online music services have reached an agreement on how to compensate music creators for online distribution of their content, they said. The agreement is designed to settle how the industry calculates royalty rates for limited downloads and music that is streamed online, including when it is provided by subscription and advertising-supported services. Fans using on-demand music streaming can select the songs they want to hear but do not keep a permanent copy. Under the proposal, providers of such services will pay a mechanical royalty of 10.5 percent of revenue after other royalties are calculated.… Read more »

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Musicians union sues 'American Idol' producers


A musicians union has filed a federal lawsuit against the producers of “American Idol,” claiming musicians were underpaid because the show’s live music was re-recorded for reruns. The American Federation of Musicians filed the suit seeking unspecified damages Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleging that American Idol Productions Inc. and its subsidiary Tick Tock Productions Inc. violated a collective bargaining agreement. That contract says the show’s musicians should be paid royalties for rebroadcasts of the show, the lawsuit said. The producers are required to pay 75 percent of scale to musicians who appear in the original show… Read more »