Red Radio || May 3, 2007

I'm very proud to present the first-ever Dd Podcast. This wound up being a lot easier to create and upload than I'd originally feared, which means this might be a regular addition to Dd. For the first iteration, clocking in at nearly 72 minutes, I focused on unreleased and rare local material from bands both old and new. In fact, at least four songs on this mix are world premieres. One of them is such a big premiere, I'm not even allowed to give the artist's name away (though it's tucked into the ID3v2 tag, which you can pull up in music players like WinAMP and iTunes). If anybody who provided me with one of these songs is suddenly offended by seeing said song on here--and I have a sneaking suspicion this might be the case--just e-mail me and I'll get rid of the offending track. But I think everything here checks out and makes for good promotional material, so I'm hoping for the best.

The timing of this podcast doesn't just coincide with my birthday; it's also coming at a time when Internet radio and streaming music face a huge, ridiculous hurdle from a joint effort by the RIAA and the American government. If you haven't heard, new legislation will force broadcasters to pay a new royalty rate:

"At the request of the Recording Industry Association of America, the CRB ignored the fact that Internet radio royalties were already double what satellite radio pays, and multiplied the royalties even further. The 2005 royalty rate was 7/100 of a penny per song streamed; the 2010 rate will be 19/100 of a penny per song streamed. And for small webcasters that were able to calculate royalties as a percentage of revenue in 2005--that option was quashed by the CRB, so small webcasters' royalties will grow exponentially!"

To top it off, such legislation will force webcasters to pay retroactive fees from as far back as 2006. You read that correctly: Retroactive chargeback was actually approved by American lawmakers. Could you imagine if insurance agencies were allowed to retroactively hike your car and home insurance rates from over a year ago and get away with collecting that money from you? So while you wait for this 86 MB file to download, I urge you to visit savenetradio.org and find out what's going on and how you can urge local and state representatives to do something before the ruling goes into effect on July 15.

Tracklist:

1) Doug Burr - Whipporwill
From his forthcoming LP On Promenade
2) Baptist Generals - Damn the Bloom
Bonus track from Europe-only version of Dog EP
3) Eat Avery's Bones - Nice Ice
From the band's latest CD-R
4) Bosque Brown - That Door
From a 2006 bootleg I recorded at The Cavern
5) Pegasus Now - Spider
Unreleased demo
6) Zapruder Sequence - Makin' Eyes
From their forthcoming LP Pretty Girl Charm Lies
7) History at our Disposal - Nature of Orientation
From their latest LP Symbols in the Architecture
8) Slowride - It's Good to Be Back
From last year's impressive C/S
9) tomorrowpeople - Unreleased Song
From the band's unreleased final studio album
10) Day of the Double Agent - Formidable Enemy
Unreleased demo
11) Lauren Fine - Sleeping Well
Unreleased home demo
12) Pleasant Grove - Why Did You Butcher Your Father?
Pre-mastered version from their forthcoming LP
13) Astronautalis - The Dogs Are Always Faster
From his tour-only freestyle EP Dang! -- yes, every word of this comes from the top of his head
14) Peter Schmidt - Lessons I Have Learned
Unreleased demo
15) Midlake - Grant's Hotel
Unreleased song from a 2002 Liquid Lounge bootleg
16) Versatile - Pass the Bottle
From the First Verse mixtape
17) The Theater Fire - Coyote
Unreleased song from the band's 2007 SXSW sampler CD
18) Sarah Jaffe - ...can't find the song title
From her latest demo CD-R
19) [super secret performer] - Landmines
From the forthcoming LP Marry Me
20) Deathray Davies - Barely Ticking
Unreleased demo

Download or stream: http://www.zshare.net/audio/redradio-01-mp3.html
(it'll automatically start playing if you don't click the "download" link, which'll give you an MP3 that's ready for your iPod/MP3 player) Enjoy! -SM