Band Of Humans (an eastern CT based band) will perform in "The Best of The Best Grand Slam Finale" at the Century Lounge in Providence RI. The Group was selected along with 10 other bands, from 118 bands that competed in an eleven week competition. Band of Humans' unique acoustic-based style of original music won them the bid to compete in the Grand Slam Finale on May 13th. They topped bands from NYC, Cincinnati, Ohio, Boston, Hartford and Providence in the "Modern Rock" category. The May 13th competition begins at 8pm. The ten finalists will each perform a 15-minute set and will be evaluated on performance, stage presence, songwriting, overall look and drawing power. So try to get to the show and help support a truly great local group.
Official dates for Pearl Jam’s summer/fall outing have just been released.. At this point, the 37-date tour will touch down in amphitheatres and a few arenas August 3 - November 5. This marks the first major U.S./Canada outing for the band since 1998. Two cities announced on an early itinerary — Portland, Ore., and Austin, Texas — have been dropped "due to circumstances beyond our control," according to the band’s online newsletter. Pearl Jam has always made an effort to bring along interesting opening acts and they’ll uphold that tradition on this tour. Noisemakers Supergrass sign on for the second leg, October 4 - November5. The band’s new album Binaural, is set to be released on Epic Records May 16.
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff’s ruling that MP3.
com is liable for infringing the copyrights of the Recording Industry Association Of America may not have been music to the San Diego-based company’s ears, but was well-received by many, not only in the music industry, but other online music services as well. At issue were two services that MP3.com introduced earlier this year, Beam-it and Instant Listening. The Beam-it feature streams music to users who have already proved ownership of a CD. This is accomplished by putting the CD in the computer and "beaming" the I.D. information to MP3.com, after which, the user can hear a digital copy of what they already own, no matter where they are located, as long as they have a Net connection.The Instant Listening feature calls for participating online CD stores to notify MP3.com of a purchase. Once notified, MP3.com will stream an MP3 version of the CD to the user upon demand.When MP3.com announced the two new services last January, it said that it had digitized nearly 45,000 popular recordings. The Recording Industry Association of America filed suit a week later. In an open letter to MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson, RIAA President/CEO Hilary Rosen stated, "As we have discussed, your company’s violation of the copyright law is brazen on its face. Simply put, it is not legal to compile a vast database of our members’ sound recordings with no permission and no license."