A deal reached on Internet Radio and Royalties

Newsflash - Tuesday July 7, 2009

Music Business Monthly daily headlines:

1)R.I.P. Drake Levin of PauL Revere & The Raiders
From L.A. Times

By Randy Lewis
July 7, 2009

Drake Levin, lead guitarist for Paul Revere & the Raiders during the quintet's hit-making prime in the mid-1960s, died Saturday at his home in San Francisco after a long battle with cancer, according to his longtime friend and former Raiders bandmate Phil Volk. He was 62.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-drake-levin7-2009jul07,0,2699826.story

2)Internet Radio & Sound Exchange

“If the rates weren’t resolved, we were sunk,” says Tim Westergren, co-founder of the popular music-streaming website Pandora.

Deal with SoundExchange allows large webcasters such as Pandora to pay lower per-song royalties or 25% of their total revenue.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-webcaster8-2009jul08,1,6629601.story

3)Norman Greenbaum Returns to Malden
"Spirit In The Sky"

Read our THREE PART story / interview with Norman from 2008

Dec. 4, 2008 (Interview was January 2008)
http://tinyurl.com/normanpart1

December 11, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/normanpart2

December 19, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/normanpart3

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