I imagine that it gets tougher and tougher each year for Side One Dummy to come up with concepts for the annual Warped Tour compilation, but their work this year has turned into something truly stunning. As a double CD set with 50 bands, this project is nothing short of immense, and there’s so many [...]

Woohoo! One of Pastepunk’s favorites, AUTOPILOT OFF are ready to serve up their debut Island full-length shortly (and with much anticipation), and the first single from that disc is “What I Want.” Check out that song here. As a side note, unfortunately, the track is protected by DRM, and you can only play it five times, but I am sure the tune will be posted elsewhere shortly without such restrictions.

Electronic Frontier Foundation Releases File Sharing Recommendations

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, February 24, 2004

San Francisco, CA – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced the release of a report outlining its favored solution to the music file-sharing controversy. The EFF white paper recommends that the music industry adopt a model similar to that used by radio stations today, known as voluntary collective licensing. The proposal suggests a way that artists and copyright holders can get paid and music fans can share music freely at a reasonable charge without feeling like criminals.

“”Voluntary collective licensing aligns the interests of the music industry with music fans,”" said EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von Lohmann, “”The more people share music, the more artists and copyright holders should receive compensation for their creations.”"

The report, entitled “”A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing,”" is part of the organization’s “”Let the Music Play”" campaign.

link: A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing (.pdf)

Did anyone else notice that Roadrunner released a MADBALL – Greatest Hits disc in 2003? I haven’t heard it yet, but I bet someone took a beatdown for it…

Below is a link to the New York Time’s article covering yesterday’s billing as GREY TUESDAY, in support of DJ Dangermouse’s “”Grey Album,”" where over 150 websites put up the release for free downloading. This particular quote from Harvard Professor, Jonathan Zittrain is particularly on-point:

“”As a matter of pure legal doctrine, the Grey Tuesday protest is breaking the law, end of story,”" … “”But copyright law was written with a particular form of industry in mind. The flourishing of information technology gives amateurs and home-recording artists powerful tools to build and share interesting, transformative, and socially valuable art drawn from pieces of popular culture. There’s no place to plug such an important cultural sea change into the current legal regime.”"

link: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/arts/music/25REMI.html

BLINDSIDE – About A Burning Fire

SCARS OF TOMORROW – Rope Tied To The Trigger

I’m with Jordan. I haven’t had mayo in years. Mustard is the all-american condiment.

As other labels have gotten more creative with their annual or bi-annual label sampler compilation, Epitaph has remained true to keeping the “Punk O Rama” formula consistent one. Whereas the last “Fat Music For Fat People” compilation contained all unreleased material, “Punk O Rama” still offers a few unreleased songs to compliment a summary of [...]