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THE TIME MACHINE is a radio program that uses a nonsense name as an excuse in order to play music from all over the musical spectrum. The show plays a lot of new stuff in addition to covering over 70 years of POP sounds.
"We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school."
- Bruce Springsteen from NO SURRENDER (1984)
Click the link below for this specific internet radio music stream available only on Saturdays. Join us every Saturday 7PM to 10PM East Coast Time / 4PM to 7PM West Coast Time as we let our hair hang down in
Nushu's Lisa Mychols and Tom Richards from The Waking Hours welcome you to The Time Machine
Friday, March 30, 2007
Rob Bonfiglio from The Skies Of America - radio interview on The Time Machine
The Skies Of America is the band that lets Rob Bonfiglio show off his musical craft. Rob returned to The Time Machine to share with us his take on his early years, his stint with Wanderlust and Superstone plus sharing his latest batch of music from The Skies Of America.
We haven't had the greatest luck with podcasting our broadcasts. So many services that cost us money and don't work. Even free sites often come up short. The player below may or may not work but you can still download the MP3 of Rob Bonfiglio's interview. Let us know if you experience any problems.
Singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata plays catch up online while dealing with being accident prone.
It's official...I am accident prone. I am contemplating writing a book logging my accidents, the trials and tribulations of getting a record out, my strange influx of animal related events and the ever-present appearance of emergency officials in my daily life.
I think I've been watching too many episodes of the Dog Whisperer because when I came upon a baby squirrel flopping in the middle of the road the other day, I was sure I could take control of the situation. Pull car over, jump out, scoop squirrel up in jacket, head to vet. Stunned little buddy (later I name him "Buddy") lay in lap with no evidence of external injuries and was quite peaceful. Little did I know squirrels bite to the bone. I didn't get bit – that's not part of the story, so no worries on that front...We had a connection.
At the vet, I was informed that they do not receive squirrels. So, standing in reception while they gazed at me as if I hit the thing ("No, I didn't fucking hit the squirrel for your information, I came upon him after he'd been hit/ p.s. my cat left your office dead so don't look at me like I'm the killer/ where has your bedside manner gone you putz")…I asked their advice. They suggested finding a 'rehabilitator' – the only "legally issued persons allowed to handle wildlife" (another condemning glance – now I'm breaking the law apparently), letting him back out where I found him (so he could die alone in the snow), or have him euthanized – compliments of said vet. Well, Buddy looked at me and I looked at him and within seconds we were back in my car driving home, illegally.
Buddy lay in the laundry basket resting as I tried to offer him mangos and nuts. He just lay there in shock so eventually I gave him a couple squirts of water from a turkey baster and hopped on the internet in search of nearby "rehabiliators". Found one and next thing I know I'm sitting in a house in a neighboring town with a woman cradling a beautiful pheasant and feeding it mush, pigeons cawing away (squawking/chirping – whatever they do), baby bunnies, a giant bunny the size of a mid-weight dog etc. She carefully explains to me the technique of feeding pheasant and the nature of Buddy's teeth, asks if I've had my rabies shots and shows me a spray that relaxes animals that you can get at health food stores. I ask if it works on humans. She doesn't think so.
So now I'm playing a benefit for NY wildlife in the spring. Go Buddy.
Let's see...In other news. Got into a car accident. Those are always fun. Someone ran a red light and hit a car, that car hit me and my drummer and we swerved into a pole. Airbags went off and what could have been bad was thankfully, not as bad. We walked away from it, although drummer's car has now been totaled. I did get some nifty pictures of ambulance emts and fireman, which I will post to go with state trooper (see previous blog). Fortunately, I loaded them into my computer before I lost my camera. Lord.
So with my busted knee (yoga no mas), sore neck and bump on head, recent hearing loss, and rain pains of broken wrist/ busted chin past – well, I've decided I shouldn't leave the house on any full moons. How's that for a meandering blog..
Xoxoxo r
Posted by Rachael Yamagata
Rachael's music has had a home on our playlists and in our hearts since her debut release. Be sure to pick up a copy of her first album, "Happenstance" and keep an eye peeled out for Rachael's upcoming release. You can get a sampling of what she's been up to lately at her website www.rachaelyamagata.com
Singer-songwriter Sabrina Taylor chimes in with her take on Britney Spears and the media.
OK! So, I was thinking today about all the controversy going on about Britney Spears and her shaving her head. IT'S EVERYWHERE I TURN!!
One reason I heard was "Kevin threatened to test her hair for drugs" to gain custody of their children.
Another one was "She was tired of having people touch her"...maybe hair people?
ANYWAY I could give two F@*KS about the reasoning. I say LET THE GIRL BE!!! She is human. So she goes out, drinks, plays with drugs. (I'm not into drugs) But it's HER life. If she wants to shave her head. POWER TO YA! I definitely do not have the balls to do such a thing. I WOULD CRY!!! :D
I don't agree with constant partying ESPECIALLY when you have children. (My mom is an alcoholic and would go out for weeks and leave us home.) But the occasional drink and "letting loose" once in a while is DEFINITELY needed.
Just think for a second. Put your self in HER shoes. Imagine your every day stress X 10,0000 and hung out on the line for the ENTIRE world to know. I WOULD LOOSE IT TOO!!!
Now, I do agree she needs to learn to be more DISCRETE. Hanging out with Paris and a group of people who FEED off the press isn't going to give you privacy.
Anyway... I'm trying to say, I'm sure postpartum depression has set in on top of EVERYTHING else. She needs a break and should really seek help. Maybe Dr. Phil should step in :D
Anyway, that's my thought for the day :D
xx ST
Posted by Sabrina Taylor
"Can't Go Home" by Sabrina Taylor has been heavily played the past year on "The Time Machine" and Sabrina was a wonderful guest on the radio show. With her new release coming out we hope to have this talented artist return to the program.
Prepare To Say Aloha To Internet Radio - Webcast Royalty Decision Announced
THE TIME MACHINE's days of broadcasting online may soon come to end along with the majority of internet streamed music broadcasts around America. The Time Machine uses Live 365 and pays music royalties to ASCAP, BMI and SESAC every month. Live 365 may be put out of business with many other legit companies around the United States who are above board and insure that artists and composers get paid. Here is the latest bad news about saying "goodbye" to internet radio from RAIN reported by Daniel McSwain.
The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange(a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA).
RAIN has learned the rates that the Board has decided on, effective retroactively through the beginning of 2006. They are as follows:
2006 $.0008 per performance 2007 $.0011 per performance 2008 $.0014 per performance 2009 $.0018 per performance 2010 $.0019 per performance
A "performance" is defined as the streaming of one song to one listener; thus a station that has an average audience of 500 listeners racks up 500 "performances" for each song it plays.
The minimum fee is $500 per channel per year. There is no clear definition of what a 'channel' is for services that make up individualized playlists for listeners.
For noncommercial webcasters, the fee will be $500 per channel, for up to 159,140 ATH (aggregate tuning hours) per month. They would pay the commercial rate for all transmissions above that number.
Participants are granted a 15 day period wherein they have the opportunity to ask the CRB for a re-hearing.
Within 60 days of the final determination, the decision is supposed to be published in the Federal Register, along with any technical corrections that the Board may wish to make.
Within 30 days of publication in the Federal Register, it can be appealed (but only by the participants) to the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.
Because a typical Internet radio station plays about 16 songs an hour, that's a royalty obligation in 2006 of about 1.28 cents per listener-hour.
In 2006, a well-run Internet radio station might have been able to sell two radio spots an hour at a $3 net CPM (cost-per-thousand), which would add up to .6 cents per listener-hour.
Even adding in ancillary revenues from occasional video gateway ads, banner ads on the website, and so forth, total revenues per listener-hour would only be in the 1.0 to 1.2 cents per listener-hour range.
That math suggests that the royalty rate decision — for the performance alone, not even including composers' royalties! — is in the in the ballpark of 100% or more of total revenues. — Kurt Hanson
How does this affect large webcasters?
Let's look at AOL as an example:
According to the comScore Arbitron ratings report for November 2006, the AOL Radio Network had a average audience ("AQH") between 6AM and Midnight of 210,694 listeners. Multiplied by about 16 songs per hour, 18 hours per day, and 31 days per month, plus adding an additional 10% to account for overnight (Mid-6AM) listening, suggests that AOL played about 2.1 billion songs that month. At the CRB's royalty rate ($0.0008 per play), I'm guessing that would create a royalty obligation to SoundExchange for the month of November of about $1.65 million. Annualized, that's about $20 million for 2006.
Here at RAIN, we're guessing that Pandora has an audience approaching that size. (Pandora founder Tim Westergren claims that Pandora now accounts for 1.5% of all Internet traffic.) Such a royalty obligation might exceed the total proceeds of all their recent rounds of venture capital plus all their sales revenues to date.
Since Last.fm is based in the U.K., another possible outcome is that Pandora dies and Last.fm becomes the "social music networking" player.
How does this affect medium-size webcasters?
Radio Paradise's Bill Goldsmith notes, "This royalty structure would wipe out an entire class of business: Small independent webcasters such as myself & my wife, who operate Radio Paradise. Our obligation under this rate structure would be equal to over 125% of our total income. There is no practical way for us to increase our income so dramatically as to render that affordable."
And Radio Paradise is perhaps the most-successful webcaster in its class! For most operators, this rate looks as if it would be >150-200% of total revenues.
How does this affect small webcasters?
Webcasters who stream through services like Live365 may be in jeopardy, as such firms' business models probably never envisioned a royalty rate this high. (Live365's royalty obligation for 2006 is running in the range of $350,000 per month, and that's not even addressing the question of the $500 per station mininum!)
How does this affect terrestrial broadcasters who stream?
The principles are the exactly same, but at the individual radio station level, the dollar amounts are of course are smaller. Clear Channel's total corporate obligation for November 2006 based on comScore Arbitron ratings and assuming 13 songs per hour, would be about $500,000... but if that's for streaming, let's say, 500 stations, it would only be a royalty obligation of about $1,000 per station per month in 2006. Are those stations selling enough online spots and website banners and sponsorships to make that affordable? I'm not sure. (The decision has no impact on news and talk stations who stream.)
What about future years?
The rate of increase in future years is huge — faster than it would seem possible that advertising revenues could possibly keep up with, much less catch up with. 2007's rate is a 37.5% increase over 2006; 2008 and 2009's annual increases are about 28% per year; and 2010 adds another 5.5% increase.
Is this the end of Internet radio?
Although this is undeniably a huge victory for the legal departments of record labels (or at least for the lawyers at their industry trade association, the RIAA), I doubt that the heads of the record labels and their marketing executives actually want to see Internet radio driven out of business. (This may be a case of "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it.")
Last summer, there were rumors of seemingly productive negotiations going on between Sound Exchange and webcasters regarding a voluntary (i.e., not statuatory) percentage-of-revenues royalty rate. Everyone's best hope, I believe — for webcasters, labels, musicians, and consumers alike — would be if those negotiations could resume.
*Steaming a radio broadcast for an audience to listen to is completely different from downloading a song. Yes...we know that some websurfers record internet streams just like people did thirty years ago on a cassette radio deck...the quality is not the greatest and requires a great deal of time and effort to edit a file a pass it around. That's assumming that someone would actually have an interest in passing around three to five to eight hour MP3 files of radio broadcast streams.
Changing the subject from royalty rates from streaming to downloading songs illegally, here is the video to one of The Time Machine's most played songs from 2006.
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