19 posts tagged “indie”
In this week's Tea with Hungry Lucy War-N & Christa share a preview of a new song (working title: Pajamas), likely title "The Best Day of Her Life". We get to hear the original noisy piano recording, and the newly arranged music.
Wanna know what Hungry Lucy talked about this week? So do they! Having recorded the poodcast last night and posting it today, HL seem to have forgotten what on earth they discussed! Things they do know are the OPM's. CB's choice was Smashing Pumpkins, specifically the album 'Adore'. War-N chatted about KLF and their origins and their method to their madness (video). The jaunty intro is back, as is the outro, until further notice. Power to the Chloe!!
A sneak peek into a rehearsal on the brand-new song "The Standing Ones". A bit on the wonky side mix-wise, but oh well! With another week to rehearse, it's sounding pretty good. But, there's ALWAYS room for improvement!! Like what you hear? Let us know here.
Join us next week when HL can report on how the show went and how the Vertigo Reunion goes!
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This week brings such wondrous excitement, where to begin?? HL chat about getting ready for live shows, making audio tracks and making new videos for the new songs they will be performing (don't you wish YOU could hear?? You CAN!!) CB chats a bit about vegetarian rennet and the sources to find cheeses made with said rennet, which she will post on her christabelle.com site soon. OPM from CB this week was Angelo Badalamenti and her viewing of Twin Peaks season 2 on the channel 'Chiller'. War-N had no OPM, nor did we use the jingle! Happy, Angel? ;)
The duo also discuss their recent finding of a warren out in their back yard, whilst mowing. What could have been VERY bad is now a saga of "will he get kicked out of the hole?". Stay tuned to see how Trauma, the bunny, fares with his siblings and Momma Bunny!!
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After a week off, War-N and Christa return for more random banter. This week the duo chat about preparations for two upcoming shows (in Dayton, OH and Pittsburgh, PA). War-N is working on some new arrangements and Christa on some new videos. These shows should fill the need for some full-on, real Hungry Lucy shows. War-N rants a bit about the foolish comments of Elton John and Christa shares some new writing and photos on christabelle.com. For OPM this week, War-N talks about the song "Listen" by Tears for Fears as well as the wonderful film Little Children (and soundtrack by Thomas Newman). Christa chats about Peter Murphy, his involvement with Sarah Fimm and her own return to all things dark and lovely as Fall approaches.
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In episode 81 of TWHL Christa and War-N talk about more BSOD adventures, how live performance has chipped away some of their former confidence and their plans to overcome it. The pair tell us of their grand plans for two upcoming shows in September (in Dayton and Pittsburgh) and War-N threatens to perform topless .... ewwww! OPMs this week are Azam Ali's latest project, Roseland, The Cranes and the deliciously dark film, Pan's Labyrinth. Then podcast ends with Christa off to punch some dough.
What HL songs would YOU like to hear live?.
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Early Sunday morning...huh? In an earlier than usual podcast, the duo chat about the progress on their new track "Hill", which is coming along quite nicely! CB goes on a small Gardening expedition and War-N quotes Rollo from Faithless on "not catering to anyone's taste but your own." That said, Faithless was this week's OPM, without the catchy little jingle. CB&W enjoyed a fabulous film called "The Fountain" and marveled at the film's visuals and story. Wow...what a Hugh Jackman you have!!
More progress on the t-shirts. An order will surely follow soon (probably in a couple of weeks) and we can all wear new HL t-shirts designed by Neil! :) But, we need your input. What size do you prefer? We will have regular black t-shirts, baby doll t's and the long sleeved hoodies. How do you like yours...small, medium, large, XL or more? Let us know HERE.
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Hey. it’s time for another Tea with Hungry Lucy. This week CB and War-N talk about their Tuesday show at Northside Tavern. The seemingly dodgy PA surprised us all. The pair also talk about their upcoming show on Fountain Square which will debut a new version of the song that started it all (Blue Dress). Christa talks about her new video series that shows us all what goes on behind the scenes. OPM’s this week include CB’s picks: Michael Oberst and Nathaniel Seer and War-N’s picks: Stephanie’s ID (and their new CD) and an alternate piece of media in the shape of Tyim Courts’ brilliant 3-a-week comic strip, Under the Lids. War-N speaks of future music and keeping it more layered than the stripped down versions they’ve been doing live.
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After a one-week hiatus, Christa and War-N are back to delight you with tales of musical excursions, violently smashing rehearsals, War-N’s Facebook fun and Bjork spoofs. War-N speaks about some other people’s music in the form of the delicious Tania Moran (who reminds War-N of Olivia Newton-John) and the fascinating new project from Collide and Daren Garcia (of Curve) called The Secret Meeting. Christa tells us of her plans for a new video series and promises to deliver the first one next week … personally, I’m moist with anticipation! War-N also alludes to some life-changes in the not too distant future, but we’re unsure of what’s the hell he’s talking about … what’s new? ;P
Hungry Lucy perform this Tuesday (June 12) at Northside Tavern in Cincinnati with the amazing Stephanie’s Id.
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If you haven’t experienced Stephanie’s Id live (from Asheville, NC), you won’t want to miss this show. They have managed to reaffirm my faith in the power of music every damn time I see/hear them!
Earlier today I bought into some posts I was reading on how SoundExchange collects money on behalf of artists without their consent. Well, this is kind of true, but not in an extortionist kind of way. Since my post earlier, I have emailed back and forth with John Simson, the Executive Director of SoundExchange. He explained how SoundExchange works to me. for the sake of completeness (and perhaps a little laziness) I will simply include the email exchange below (with John’s kind permission).
In response to my original email, John replied:
Please give me a call so I can explain to you how this works. You don’t need to “opt out” of SoundExchange – but you are free to direct license any service you want at whatever price you want. That is and has always been your right. What you will find is that most webcasters want to make one single payment for everything they play – and we facilitate that. As the webcasters wanted to make one payment and provide data about what they were playing to one entity, we were designated by the Copyright Office to be that entity.
I responded with:
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I would love to speak with you about this as it’s clear there is a lot of potentially inaccurate info in the web/media on this topic. I am simply reacting to what I have read.
So, is it correct that a “flat fee” is collected from the webcaster and each artist played is entitled to a portion of that whole? If so, what happens to the portion that goes unclaimed? Is it the webcaster that would need to opt-out of the system, and play only freely available music? I’m trying to get a handle on what I can tell webcasters who come to me. I guess in order to avoid paying anything on music of ours that has been played, they would just not report airplay of our music. They would still pay the same fees, but no portion of that would come to us, via Sound Exchange. Is that accurate?
John replied:
It depends upon the service. The 40 or so blue screen channels that play music over your cable tv or directv or dishnet pay us 7.25% of the revenue they collect and provide us with complete census data on every channel. We match the money to the performances and distribute. Satellite radio (XM and Sirius) also give us census data for all performances and we match their payments to performances and pay out accordingly. Webcasters, if they are non-comms (college, religious, community) for the most part pay a $500 annual fee. They do not provide data – so there is no data to match against their payments. We have tried to work with them to create a technology solution since getting data from them is important to me – so we can pay the right artists and labels.
Large commercial webcasters (who pay in 95% of webcasting royalties) are now required to report 2 weeks per quarter. If you show up in that survey, you get paid. Those payments would be made on the basis of audience size. In 2005 the rates for large commercial webcasters was .0762 cents per stream. So, if 100 people were listening to a song, the label and artist would receive approximately 7.6 cents for that performance. If 10,000 people were listening it would be $7.60.
What happens to unclaimed money, as in every performing rights organization is that we hold it for a minimum of 3 years (Copyright Office regulations) and if we can’t locate the person and they haven’t come forward to claim, the money is redistributed to all other SoundExchange royalty recipients.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
This is all good info. John is very open to conversation on this stuff, so I encourage anyone concerned (particularly webcasters) to contact him directly with questions. You can find his contact info on the SoundExchange contact page.
