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A recent decision by United States Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has set a high bar for independent webcasters who want to stream digital audio for little or no profit. The decision will hike royalty rates for non-interactive webcasting an average of nearly 25 percent annually between 2006 (retroactively) and 2010, effectively quashing small or non-profit webcasters and clearing the way for internet media consolidation for those who can afford it. 
After a lengthy European tour... I mean a soul-searching bout of drug & alcohol rehab with Britney.....ok, it was really just round three of a Space Nelson baby-making bonanza, the boys have come back down to Earth to grace us with their presence at The Bullfrog on Saturday, March 24th. SN will be sharing the stage with w/Jackie Blue, Leverage, Company of Strangers. The music will start at 9 p.m., so come out and welcome our favorite prog rockers back to terra firma.
Apparently lightning can strike twice. A week after E! Entertainment Television began using The Cobalt Party Revolution's amped-up version of "Keep Your Receipt" as the theme song for their 5-part series "101 Favorite Stars From Wayback When", the Detroit indie/hiphop foursome landed yet another song in the now somewhat controversial "Garlic Bread Prime Rib Sub" Quiznos commercial featuring a "real woman" who needs her meat. Curious? Click "Read More" below."
The WDET Spring Fundraiser Showcases will take place on Friday, March 23 and Saturday, March 24 at the local music venue, 313.jac- upstairs at Jacoby’s. Featured will be bands and solo performers that reflect the various eclectic styles of music often heard on the WDET's unique programming. Performing bands will also be featured on the Ralph Valdez Show on Sunday, March 11 at 10pm. Click "read more" below for more information and a list of performers.
Patti Smith, the outspoken and controversial punk rocker and poet who once lived in the Detroit area with her late husband, Fred "Sonic" Smith of the MC5, will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony to take place at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City on Monday, March 12, 2007. Smith will join Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, R.E.M., The Ronettes and Van Halen as a 2007 inductee. Her 1975 debut, Horses took the music business by surprise, eschewing industry pomp for raw passion, feminist poetry and a do-it-yourself punk ethic. Though Smith achieved only a single top twenty RIAA recognized hit, 1978's "Because The Night", she's widely recognized as one of the most influential artists in rock & roll. 
Derek Justice, director of the upcoming feature “Broken”, will be shooting the next Dendura concert for a music video at The Ritz in Warren, MI, on March 31. Dendura, a progressive metal band with a dark, sometimes middle-eastern modal sound, contributed their single “I Have a Gun” for this new sex, drugs and art feature film starring vocalist Aziza Poggi. The film premieres at the Emagine Theatre in Novi ono May 17th. 
According to a story in The New York Times, the FCC has reached a tentative settlement with four of the largest radio broadcasters in the U.S., effectively ending a year-old payola investigation. Times reporter Jeff Leeds writes that Clear Channel, CBS Radio, Entercom Communications, and Ciditel Commmunications will pay $12.5 million to the federal agency. If approved, the settlement will represent the largest one-time fine in FCC history.
