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SF’S MUSICIANS CATCH A BREAK ON HEALTH CARE
San Francisco, like any complex organization, is going to get some things wrong and some things right. Providing health care on a musician’s budget is something The City does right.
Read More »TICKETMASTER-LIVE NATION MERGER
Ticketmaster and Live Nation have merged, thus completing the stinkiest music deal of the new century. Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition and Consumer Rights, doesn’t like it
Read More »MOOD SWINGS AND MUSIC
The last HWS issue’s story about pointless divisiveness in the Bay Area’s zydeco and roots music communities drew some interesting responses. The better news is that zydeco’s battling bookers have decided against going head-to-head
Read More »HARVARD LAWYER FIGHTS FOR SONG SHARING
The Recording Industry Association of America regularly sends out thousands of greenmail compensation demands to the families of downloaders who are usually minors. College students are favorite targets, but the RIAA never sets its
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