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…And here was me hoping that the arguments over ‘flat license fees’ for music online were going away and people realised it was largely unworkable. Gerd Leonhard has been pushing this for a while as the answer - Gerd is a futurist, and as I’ve said before, he approaches the industry with the characteristic fatalism [...]

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OK, a little backstory - the marvel that is Billy Bragg wrote a piece for the New York Times last week about how social networks are ripping off artists, and we deserve a piece of the cash when they sell for hundreds of millions.
Billy’s logic is fine, it’s just a little out of date, and [...]

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So iTunes have started doing an annual festival - itunes live. This year they seem to have a thing for collaborations, which do often, it must be said, make a gig particularly special.
And is no doubt one of the main reasons why the genius that is Leo Abrahams was on the bill - his new [...]

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I went to a fabulous lunchtime gig yesterday - Billy Bragg and

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Just saw this on Jonatha Brooke’s Myspace blog - she’s working on a bunch of Woody Guthrie songs, with access granted to the archives by Woody’s daughter, Nora.
As a HUGE fan of what Billy Bragg was able to do on the ‘Mermaid Avenue’ records, and a huge fan of what Jonatha does on her own [...]

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