From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #270 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, October 5 2005 Volume 11 : Number 270 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Julia Vorontsova & Sharon Van Etten ["abaton" ] **Rachael Sage/MPressFest This Week in CT & NY!** [SpiritWe@aol.com] Re: Ecto Happenings? [DanStark <2005.carnivore99@verizon.net>] Article on musicians unhappy with copy-protected CDs [John Higdon Subject: Julia Vorontsova & Sharon Van Etten Julia Vorontsova and Sharon Van Etten will perform at the Sin'e bar Wednesday October 5th. The Sin'e bar is on the corner of Stanton and Attorney in NYC. It's a free show and starts @ 9pm. This will be Julia's final NY performance before returning to Europe. m ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 03:59:33 EDT From: SpiritWe@aol.com Subject: **Rachael Sage/MPressFest This Week in CT & NY!** HEY Y'ALL! Just a last-minute reminder that Rachael Sage will be playing a rare duo show w/ bassist Todd Sickafoose (Ani DiFranco, Noe Venable) TOMORROW, Wednesday, at ACOUSTIC CAFE in Bridgeport, CT...and she'll also be playing with her trio in BROOKLYN on Friday as part of our 2nd Annual MPressFest. We really hope you can make it down! Details below & hope to seeya there :) xoxoxo & light, The Folks @ MPress === BALLADS & BURLESQUE TOUR COMES HOME! Wednesday, October 5 Acoustic Cafe 8pm for more info call (203) 335-3655 2926 Fairfield Ave w/ Ember Swift! Bridgeport, CT ...AND DON'T MISS MPRESSFEST 2005: Friday, October 7th MPressFest @ GALAPOGOS 7-11pm (Rachael's hosting the evening & she plays at 10!) Also featuring these *amazing* artists: Bora Yoon, Amy Speace, Ellis, Noe Venable & Bari Koral for more info call (718) 384-4586 or visit http://www.galapagosartspace.com/ 70 N 6th Street Brooklyn, NY * WINNER, 2005 INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARD (FOLK) * WINNER, 2005 OUTMUSIC AWARD (SONGWRITER) ========================================================== MPress Records | www.rachaelsage.com | www.sonicbids.com/rachaelsage Label Manager & Distribution: JoJo Gentry | mpressjojo@aol.com Bookings: sectalentgroup@yahoo.com | www.sectalentgroup.net ========================================================== "rich vocals, sparkling piano & yearning poetry" - TIME OUT NY "melodies that will break your heart...unforced passion" - ROLLINGSTONE.COM "lovely & literate folk-pop-rock, socially aware & eclectic" - VILLAGE VOICE ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:08:42 -0400 From: DanStark <2005.carnivore99@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Ecto Happenings? Josh, if you happen to get in one night early, there's a Laura Tsaggarris CD release party, 9pm Thursday at the Iota, 2832 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA (a couple of blocks from the Clarendon Metro). Laura is great, and this is a rare full-band show for her so I highly recommend it if you can swing it. Dan Josh wrote: >I'll be in the D.C./Arlington, VA area from Oct. 7-11 (snagging Dead Can >Dance at the Strathmore on Monday night). Are there any other >Ecto-friendly music events anyone can point me to during that time? >I've done some searching but haven't turned up much. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:07:55 -0600 From: John Higdon Subject: Article on musicians unhappy with copy-protected CDs What with all the recent discussion, I found this article http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/10/04/music.copy.reut/index.html on artist unhappiness with copy-protection to be interesting. Apparently, "a number of leading acts are using their Web sites to instruct fans on how to work around the technology". "One solution artists offer iPod users is to rip the CD into a Windows Media file, burn the tracks onto a blank CD (without copy protection) and then rip that CD back into iTunes." (Note: I checked the Sony website, and it seemed to indicate that you could only make WMA files with a bit-rate of 128.) Another musician even briefly posted a link to a "software program CDEX, which disables the technology". The article also says that Sony BMG is frustrated with complaints, has a web site that "provides information on how to work around the technology". However, it doesn't tell how to rip to MP3s, just that fans should write Apple and urge 'em to license its own DRM technology out to the labels. John Higdon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:26:15 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Article on musicians unhappy with copy-protected CDs John Higdon wrote: > The article also says that Sony BMG is frustrated with complaints, has > a web site that "provides information on how to work around the > technology". However, it doesn't tell how to rip to MP3s, just that > fans should write Apple and urge 'em to license its own DRM technology > out to the labels. Maddeningly, while the SonyBMG (our label rep sometimes calls them "Bony") site leads one around hinting that it will say how to rip to iPods, the yellow brick road ends up at a form (http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/form10.html) which asks: Where did you purchase the disc? Artist Name Album Title Country/ Store Name Email Address with all fields required. I'm guessing that they might (or might not) then email you some information, and will probably add you to a list of people wanting to rip their music. I don't know what they would do with that list. Grr. By the way (again with the Record Store Guy perspective), one reason that CD ripping and burning is booming among musicsellers is that record companies are giving us fewer and fewer promo CDs, at least of artists in whom we are interested. Since we're officially banned from opening discs to play on overhead systems, the only way we're able to hear much of the music (except, perhaps, from buying it personally) is by finding it online and passing it around. Looking at larger artists, I don't think we ever got promos of, for example, the new (very good) albums by Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones, each of which we were tempted to yawn at and ignore based on their recent track record. (As of a few days ago, neither was available for listening to samples through our listening stations, either.) But having heard the CDs a bit ahead of time, we were able to recommend them eagerly to our customers. And the buzz is huge on the new KaTe album, due to the single -- and several of the most eager musicsellers wouldn't have heard it without clandestine technologies, since they don't have computers themselves. (And several of these had been quite dubious before hearing it, based on the combination of the long wait and "The Red Shoes".) When customers ask us why record companies have done various things (putting things out in one country but not others, pulling things out of print, playing games with pricing, etc), our stock answer has become "Because record companies are insane and evil." The customers just tend to nod sagely. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #270 ***************************