Supermoon

‘Supermoon’ is taken from the new 65daysofstatic record, ‘No Man’s Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe’, the official soundtrack to the procedurally generated science fiction computer game ‘No Man’s Sky’. Pre-order is available now with exclusive an second album of soundscape/sound design from http://www.lacedrecords.com http://www.65daysofstatic.com Sweet 2016/04/08 12:40:54 +0000 I love it. So very much!…

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The Kesha ruling is offensive, dismissive and utterly predictable | Lucia Graves | Opinion | The Guardian

To the non-legal mind, Kesha’s court case is eminently reasonable. She would like to be unshackled from a decade-old contract tying her to producer and collaborator Lukasz Gottwald (aka “Dr Luke”), a man she says has drugged, raped and psychologically abused her from the time she was 18. Specifically, she would like to be freed…

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Kesha vs. Dr. Luke: The Singer’s Case Against Sony Is Dismissed Because of Statutes of Limitations, Hate-Crime Laws, and Venue – The Atlantic

Say that everything that Kesha alleges about the producer Dr. Luke raping and abusing her is true. She still loses her lawsuit against him. This is not a hypothetical scenario. In the ruling where the New York judge Shirley Werner Kornreich dismissed all of Kesha’s claims against the man born Lukasz Gottwald, his affiliated companies,…

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Pharrell Made Only $2,700 In Songwriter Royalties From 43 Million Plays Of “Happy” On Pandora

Matt Sayles/APPharrell is sad about his royalties.This past year was great for singer Pharrell Williams. His song “Happy” secured him Grammy nominations for Best Music Video and Best Pop Solo Performance. Despite Pharrell’s ubiquity, “Happy” made $2,700 in publisher and songwriter royalties from 43 million Pandora streams in the first quarter of 2014, according to an email…

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One Thing Considered: ‘Stressed Out,’ Twenty One Pilots’s Anthem of Millennial Anxiety – The Atlantic

This is the inaugural “One Thing Considered,” an occasional attempt by Megan Garber and Conor Friedersdorf to talk through cultural artifacts that tickled their brains. In this edition, the artifact at hand is the song “Stressed Out,” the nostalgia-laced hit from the Ohio duo Twenty One Pilots (also known as Josh Dun and Tyler Joseph)….

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