Well this article by Listening Post is a must read!!!

As the RIAA shuts down unlicensed mixtape services such as Muxtape,
the RIAA’s main constituents — Sony Music, Universal Music Group and
Warner Music Group, all equity partners in MySpace Music — have
approved the same sort of user-generated playlists on MySpace,
according to Fortune.
[read it in full @ Listening Post ]

Avant Garde samplemeister Johannes Kriedler is using his latest work, product placements, to create a nightmare for GEMA (the German RIAA, and explore the ways that copyrights limit art in the process.

Here’s the text of his announcement: – If you want to register a song at GEMA (RIAA, ASCAP of Germany) you
have to fill in a form for each sample you use, even the tiniest bit.
On 12 Sept 08, German Avant garde musician Johannes Kreidler will —as a
live performance event—register a short musical work that contains
70,200 quotations with GEMA using 70,200 forms. – This doesn’t sound like it would be much fun to listen to – but it’s a great performance piece that challenges the status quo when it comes to the arts. [via Synthtopia ]

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via My[confined]Space

Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while they sort out a problem with the RIAA. Muxtape says: – No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned. -

It has been something of a David and Goliath battle, but the first skirmishes in the war on file sharing are over. While the RIAA jubilantly claimed success last year, it is another case that has has now silenced the RIAA, as it avoids drawing attention to the case it never had. If you read a mainstream media news report about file sharing or talk to a reporter about (illicit) filesharing, you would think that the only case involving the RIAA was Capitol V Thomas, a case that made news nationwide for the size of the fines. However, there are a number of cases going on around the country, cases where the RIAA did not win. [read more @ TorrentFreak ]

RIAA: Radical, Intense and Awesome!! [zip file]

RIAA, the Mad Dogs of Mashups, have a new 10 song summer collection called Radical, Intense & Awesome!! that goes beyond the usual acapella vs instrumental formula. Some songs might have 10 sources crammed into 3 minutes, plus campy movie quotes and Spike Jones-ish sound effects.

Mr Fab: Jet-Set suite [mp3]

Mr Fab aka RIAA just released a brand new episode in his Travels and Adventures mix series called Jet-Set suite. Here is how he describes it:
- Remember when air travel was fun and glamorous? Here’s a mix done for the Peter
Nelson Show of swinging ’60s swank rudely mixed with all manner of odd noises and
voices, propelled by boomin’ beats. -
The mix is includes: PanAm commercials, Mel Torme "Jet Set," The Wild Magnolias "Somebody Got Soul," Eazy
E "Eazy – Chapter 8 Verse 10," "The Naughty Stewardess" movie ad, Anaconda
"Cuban Beach," Ming & FS "Madhattan Bound," Esquivel "Whatchamcallit," the crypto-Beastie
Boys "Your Sister’s Def," Alphaville "Jet Set," Astrud Gilberto "Fly
Me To Brasil," Joe Walsh "Meadow," Enoch Light & the Light Brigade "(Sittin on
the)Dock of  the Bay," Moby "James Bond Theme," Stevie Wonder "Superstition,"
The Big Bopper "Chantilly Lace," Electric Six "Gay Bar," Mason Williams "Classical
Gas," from "Akom: The Art of Possession," Komeda, Beastie Boys "Shake
Your Rump," Manu DiBango "Soul Makossa," Tom Jones "Sex Bomb," Flipper "Sex Bomb,"
B-52s "Rock Lobster," Henry Jacobs "Lowdown on the New Line," additional beats,
synths, sounds.

this is the second volume of our new weekly series
recommending you some nice, but longer reads about music
it’s a weekend, you have more time, so just go
read and think
and let us know what you think about the recommended subjects
this week you can read and think about these:

RIAA [Wired]
RIAA Training Video Leaked onto Torrent Sites
The RIAA apparently produced a new video, already available on a variety of torrent tracker sites, in conjunction with the National District Attorneys Association with the goal of instructing U.S. prosecutors on how to deal with music piracy cases.  According to early reports, the video, called In Trial, also provides instructions on how to get an RIAA investigator qualified as a court expert.

Indiepop [TimesOnline]
Pop bands shun major labels to go indie
As the music industry implodes, we introduce the rising young pop bands taking a leaf out of the indie rulebook

Men VS Women [Guardian]
Women and men do not listen to music differently
They might react emotionally to different things – but the theory put forward by Lesley Douglas, co-ordinator of the BBC’s popular music coverage, is patronising bunkum

Old Nick [Guardian]
Nick Cave interview
He has been spitting hellfire and damnation for years, but now that he has turned 50, is Nick Cave finally mellowing? Of course not, he tells Simon Hattenstone