Jeremiah's Music Blog: More Del.icio.us music

More Del.icio.us music

A few noteworthy mp3's and other events in music this week. Most notably, Paul Simon has released a new album, produced with Brian Eno. Paul is streaming several of the new songs online. My current favorite is "Outrageous", although every track is arguably a masterwork. "Wartime Prayers" is a very emotional track sounding something like a cross between Dire Straits and a Peter Gabriel (another Eno compatriot) production. It's great, great music, and absolutely deserving of mention.

Via FutureProducers comes another really nice track from GRUNGE titled 4-Ever.

Via SongFight's latest contest (themed "Rate of Decay") comes another fine song from Melvin. (Melvin also penned "Sign My Box" which I'd posted about back in September) While certainly an astute pop production, this song is technically illegal. Melvin's used a copyrighted sample (Jean Knight's "Mr. Big Stuff"). I don't think this would fall under "Fair Use" provisions, so I wish Melvin the best. I think it was still the best song.

While I'm on the topic of legal issues, Congress apparently gave songwriters a break in their latest tax-relief (read: relief for RICH people) bill. Senator Bill "Terry Schiavo is not a vegetable" Frist was lobbied to reduce the tax on catalog sales (currently taxed as a "windfall", around 40%) to be more in line with other business transactions of that type, applying the Capital Gains Tax instead (around 15%). This is really good news for Diane Warren, Kenny Edmonds and Quincy Jones, maybe a few other catalog writers, but this certainly doesn't benefit the majority of writers in the business, especially for-hire producers.

Photo courtesy of fensterbme.

Posted by Jeremiah at May 10, 2006 07:32 PM | Tag This Post | Digg It!