Staff Memos

You can now purchase The Parkdale Hookers' first CD “Polyester Fire Starter“.

Recorded live off the floor over a weekend, this 6 song CD will be the ideal gift for any music fan.

Get yours for just $10.00!

Click here to get yours!

Related Images:

Had a brilliant practice last night. I'm pretty impressed at just how quickly the material came together, considering how long it's ben since our last rehearsal. 'Guess it's pretty easy when everyone knows what they're doing.

Really looking forward to getting back on stage again. It's always a blast. Just where the heck is the “Blue Moon” club anyway?

Tomorrow Collins and I check out the CD pressing plant. Finally get this thing our!

Related Images:

The artist formerly known as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”, a.k.a “Prince” is on MuchMoreMusic as I type this. He's making some salient comments about the future of intellectual property in music. More bad news for the labels as he advocates the artists retaining their own IP rights, making and distributing their own music using the internet.

If that leaves the major labels as primarily a “delivery agent” for the music, so be it, he says. His analogy being “Fedex doesn't own the rights for the goods they are transporting”. He gave a timeline of approximately 10 years for record labels to sink into the tarpit.

Related Images:

Even Apple, whom Noise applauds as “bringing the music industry into the 21st century” doesn't get it sometimes. And with the company “stunned” and considering legal action” against RealNetworks for faciliating the transfer of songs bought from RealNetworks to the iPod they exhibit a dinosaur mentality that has bit them in the ass before.

It was the the decision to cling to the “proprietary” fallacy against IBM's strategy of opening their architecture to clones that gave away the PC market on a silver platter, and they're doing their damndest to screw it up again now.

Apple doesn't see the value RealNetworks brings to the iPod and doesn't understand how backwards they are in their reaction to this. You'd figure they would have learned by now but they seem determined to build a betamax music player.

Related Images:

Putting together the new tPH website and looking up info on how to do that “internet radio” thang. I haven't really paid much attention to that before (surprisingly) and I stumble across live365.com I recognize the name because they're an easyDNS client. Aside from being a super high volume  domain (in terms of DNS queries) I didn't know too much about them.

Now that I look they are very cool It's just one more of a steady stream of examples to how large the world is and how little I know about it by contrast. How could I have missed this for so long? Incredible. I am after all, supposed to be up on this sort of thing.

Well here we are. I'm listening to Pwrgrrl's Punk45 radio stream. Lotsa punk classics to wind out my day before the weekend.

And its Punk45%20radio%20stream%20and%20enjoying%20a%20nice%20dose%20of%20blast-from-the-past%20punk%20rock%20before%20I%20knock%20off%20for%20the%20day.%20Live365%20is%20another%20sign%20of%20the%20times,%20just%20part%20of%20the” DMCA compliant. I love it.

Related Images: