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Hal Ponder, the Legislative Director for the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), circulated a message by email yesterday to the union membership with regard to the brewing controversy over the recent Copyright Royalty Board rate structure. It presents the union's take

Here's a fun site with images of vintage music show posters. It's run by Mitch Diamond, who calls himself The Kardboard Kid. Mitch has been collecting these posters and hand bills since 1970, and has amassed a substantial number

We've told you before about the proposed merger of the two satellite radio providers, Sirius and XM. Previously the House of Representatives had inquired into the deal, now the Senate is doing so. The main objection to the action is

The live set from The Infamous Stringdusters is now up at the AT&T blue room. They pick and sing in the studio (over a single microphone) and discuss the new CD and their musical influences in six video segments. Two songs

Mandolin teacher and performer Butch Baldassari, has written in to let us know that he is now offering live online video lessons. The technology he's using is Skype. Skype allows you to make video calls to other Skype users provided

Tonight (March 20) will find bluegrass singer/songwriter Bob Amos as the guest on The Bluegrass Guide's monthly Songwriter Chat. Bob is a founding member of Colorado's Front Range, and has a new CD with his Bob Amos Band, Reels Of

The topic of the newly reconstituted royalty rates for cybercasting - Internet radio - has been covered here on Bluegrass Today a good bit, and generated some discussion in the reader comments to one of these posts as well. For those

H. Russell Farmer (Russ), had spent the last 30 years producing and directing programming for Kentucky Educational Television (KET), one of the largest public/educational TV networks in the country. Numerous broadcasting awards have come his way, and bluegrass fans are

McCoury Music has four tracks from the upcoming Larry Sparks CD, The Last Suit You Wear, available for online listening on their MySpace page. The CD is due for release shortly on the McCoury label, produced by Don Rigsby and

Wichita Rutherford, the podcasting superstar, has just announced that he has moved from Sirius to XM in the satellite radio world. Wichita's new show on XM is called The Grand Old Time Machine which is also the name of his upcoming