Mashups are not age restricted

Mrs. Teller proves that you’re never too old to work those decks and throw some beats downtown. Take a look at her very cool video here.  Reminds me of Mrs. Miller who covered Pet Clark’s “Downtown” and Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” back in the mid-’60s. Dig it.

Crawdaddy! Reborn!

The grand-daddy, or more accurately, the grand-crawdaddy of rock ‘n’ roll mags & zines is reborn over at Wolfgang’s Vault and worth a read. Jocelyn Hoppa is the new editor and kicks things off with a somewhat adoring profile of Crawdaddy!’s founder, Paul Williams. Hoppa is an unabashed fan of Williams, but she’s so damned sincere, that’s ok. The other thing to check out is the piece by Jason Thomas, “The Day the Music Dies,” about the imminent demise of internet radio as we know it. Unless we stop it by telling our Congresscritters to support HR 1060 without fail.

Podcast Hotel 3

This event is coming up next week in San Francisco and promises to be fairly awesome. I’m looking at podcasting in a big way right now, because the new royalty payments (also known as corporate extortion) may push all of us independent Internet broadcasters to it. We won’t be able to afford the fees for playing music on live365.com. I truly hope that doesn’t happen, but I’ll keep you posted on the appeals now under way. So it’s off to Podcast Hotel 3 for the feel-good, web 2.0, communal partay! All for professional reasons, of course. Check out details at Podcast Hotel –c u thr, y’all.

No news on the webcasters’ future

Wish there was something to report, but I haven’t heard anything new about the new “deal” for Internet broadcasters. If you have any updates, you can comment here — please!  The cool thing is that there’s been a really big spike in listenership of Chakra Chip Cookies. I’ll try to hang on as long as possible, y’all. Maybe our elected representatives will wake up to this obvious heist being orchestrated by the RIAA. Then maybe they’ll pull the plug on them instead of us. We can only hope.

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Is Internet radio doomed?

RIAA: We want it all! Sorry about the scary title for this post, but an obscure body in Washington dropped something nasty into the punchbowl last week. Let’s hope it doesn’t mean the party’s over for all of us independent internet broadcasters. The party-poopers here are the members of the Copyright Royalty Board — the guys who determine how much internet broadcasters have to pay in artist, composer and performance royalties for the music we play. Up to last week, the rates were set low enough for all of us non-profit broadcasters to afford this hobby. Now they are going to hammer us with a huge increase in the rates. This could spell the end of thousands (yes, thousands!) of small internet broadcasters. That really sucks. But here’s what you can do: Sign a petition here and let congress know that you are very concerned about this issue. You can learn more about what this means by visiting Radio Paradise. They’ve done a very good job of explaining the issues and some things you can do about this latest outrage, courtesy of the RIAA and Corporate Broadcasting Greedheads.

Our 2nd anniversary is coming up

Hard to believe it — we’ve been at it for almost 2 years. That’s a lotta spins. Japan is now our second largest audience, right after the USA. Who woulda thought? So stay tuned for even better mixes on CCC.

We’ve just added some new tunes, including “Everybody Wants to be a Cat” by Psapp (pictured at the left), a new duo from the UK. They have a new video out that you can check out here. BTW, when you click on the link, I found that it only plays when I right click and select “open in external application.” Go figure.

YouTube, too?

YouTube is my favorite new online community sandbox because people are uploading an awesome variety of great stuff, including old videos from bands you may have forgotten and some you wish you had. Fun to watch. Today, though, I bumped into a documentary by moebius32 on the "Amen Break." I hadn't heard of the Amen Break before. But it turns out I (and you) have heard it many times and probably didn't know it. Check this out. Highly educational. A little long, but stick with it.

Chakra Chip Cookies station logo

Totally forgot to upload the logo for all to see (if you haven’t logged onto the station before or recently). Needs some work, maybe. Any suggestions?

frappr

I don’t know how to get this onto my blog other than to post it in a message like this, but maybe wordpress will see fit to let us bloggers to add frappr to the widget list. It’s a very cool way for all of us Chakra Chip Cookies listeners to show where we are on the globe. Here’s what I’d like to add:

I tried to add the above code with the html editor provided by wordpress, but nothing showed when I published. Oh well, guess it doesn’t work. Please, WordPress, add frappr to the widget list.