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News Ticker: Allman Brothers, Elton John and the Performance Rights Act

2/4/09, 9:55 am EST

  • Didn’t get tickets to the Allman Brothers at New York’s Beacon Theatre this year? Moogis.com has you covered. The Website, founded by the Allmans’ Butch Trucks, will stream the band’s entire Beacon run (the site’s subscription cost: $100). “At 15 nights, three hours per show, Moogis promises to play host to the longest continuous concert stream in the history of the Internet,” Trucks said.

  • Elton John will end his Las Vegas residency, the Red Piano, on April 22nd, Yahoo! reports. The concert, which debuted in February 2004 at Caesars Palace’s Colosseum, will have run for 241 performances by its close. No replacement act has been announced yet.
  • The Perfomance Rights Act is expected to be reintroduced to Congress this week, according to Billboard.biz. If the bill passes, terrestrial radio will no longer be exempt from paying royalties to artists and labels whose music they play over the air. Artists and labels have long lobbied for the bill to pass once again, while the National Association of Broadcasters have opposed, saying playing music acts as a promotional tool.

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JP Bzet | 2/4/2009, 7:22 pm EST

The Perfomance Rights Act is messed up. Don’t artists realize that radio has the power to boost the sales of their records, promote thier concerts, etc. Just ask the artists who haven’t been able to get air play in the past because the music director didn’t dig the song. Ask them how the sales were. AND NOW ARTISTS WANT TO BE PAID BY THE STATION TO PLAY THEIR MUSIC? It should be the opposite.

If it passes, radio stations will probably charge to play a song, or be very picky about which songs it plays based on the price. This is totally WRONG.

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