{"id":360,"date":"2009-06-11T23:26:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T03:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2009-06-11T23:26:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T03:26:33","slug":"heads-roll-and-heads-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/11\/heads-roll-and-heads-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"heads roll and heads roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

My birthday was last week. It was a good day: I went to Library Camp<\/a> and ate chocolate cupcakes w\/vanilla buttercream frosting, yum. (not at the same time, though.) I am also old finally enough now. “Old enough for what?” you may ask. And I will answer: “everything.”<\/p>\n

Among the lovely wishes + gifts, I got the latest release by 50 Foot Wave: “Power + Light.” 50 Foot Wave is Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses fame)’s other band, and they are loud + rocking. Lately this old lady has been all about the rock music, and I am happy to report that this scratches my rock itch. (Which sounds kind of yucky, actually.)<\/p>\n

But that’s not what I want to blag about. What I really want to do is give big ups to Kristin & Co. because they have escaped the shackles of the recording industry and are kicking it open access-style. They founded Cash Music<\/a> as an alternative means of music distribution. They released this new record on beautiful vinyl (choice of 4 colors! I picked cyan), which you can buy<\/a>. And they also made the mp3 of the whole dang record available to download for free<\/a>. Which kicks ass for me because now I don’t have to sit there making sure the cats don’t mess w\/things while the USB turntable rips the vinyl to mp3. And of course the whole dang thing is Creative Commons licensed<\/a>, so others can mix + mash these tracks as the spirit moves them.<\/p>\n

I’ve been interested in open access\/source kinds of things for a while, I guess, but I’ve gotten more and more passionate about those issues since I became a librarian (don’t get me started on the absurdities of scholarly journal publishing). Of course music\/content\/art producers need to get paid for the good work they do, but so many of them are held hostage by the recording\/publishing industry. These models are broken. I’m not sure what the answer is — I don’t think we’ll know that for a while yet — but I’m 100% convinced that things like Cash Music are a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My birthday was last week. It was a good day: I went to Library Camp and ate chocolate cupcakes w\/vanilla buttercream frosting, yum. (not at the same time, though.) I am also old finally enough now. “Old enough for what?” you may ask. And I will answer: “everything.” Among the lovely wishes + gifts, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,21],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-copyright","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}