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Jamie Gray 5/24 @Toad’s Place / New Haven Music Festival at Toad’s Place

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Jamie Gray will be playing at the New Haven Music Festival at Toad’s Place in New Haven next month
Mark your calendars: Sunday May 24th, 2015 at 4PM.
Tickets are $10 adv and $15 day of the show, but you can get them ONLINE for just $8 from Gorilla Music! http://www.gorillamusic.com/eagleone/buy-tickets/
Mail order also available for $8 each.
Email tickets@jamiegraymusic.com for more information.
Get ’em today! See you in May!
**Be sure to fill in the “What band are you going to see?” box !
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In 6 Months SoundCloud Has Approved Just 100 Premier Partners – via Hypebot

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This morning SoundCloud announced that they’ve signed up 100 Premier Partners and paid them $1 million in advertising revenue since launching 6 months ago.

SoundCloud has been under pressure from the major labels and other rights holders to monetize more of the content available on the platform. Negotiations have been rumored to be difficult, but ongoing; and in August, SoundCloud added advertising with the promise of sharing that revenue with approved Premier Partners.

Six month later, the list of Premier Partners receiving payments – though including some significant creators like Green Label Sound, Sizzlebird, Maker Studios, Epic Rap Battles and comedian Kim Dawson  – totals just 100, all in the U.S.

175 Million Monthly Users = $166,000 Monthly Payments

Payments to these Premier Partners total $1 million since August, according to SoundCloud. That’s an average of just $10,000 per partner. Meaning that SoundCloud has $166,000 a month in payments from a service that as of December 2014 attracts more than 175 million unique users a month listening to free content from creators who upload 12 hours of audio every minute.

SoundCloud, which was founded in 2008, has said that they will expand the Premier Partner program outside of the U.S. and to more creators; but have decline to say when.

via In 6 Months SoundCloud Has Approved Just 100 Premier Partners, Payments Total $1 Million – hypebot.

Obama’s Bold Sony Statement: Canceling The Interview Was a ‘Mistake’ | WIRED

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In his end-of-year press conference today, President Barack Obama called the decision by Sony Pictures Entertainment to cancel the release of its film The Interview a “mistake.”“I am sympathetic to the threats they face,” Obama said. “Having said all that, yes, I think they made a mistake….“We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States,” Obama said. “Because if somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they will start doing when they see a documentary they don’t like or news reports they don’t like? Or, even worse, imagine if producers and distributors and others start engaging in self-censorship because they don’t want to offend the sensibilities of somebody whose sensibilities probably need to be offended.”

via Obama's Bold Sony Statement: Canceling The Interview Was a 'Mistake' | WIRED.

Indie Brew Radio – Now in Beta – IndieBrew.NET

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We just launched a new feature at IndieBew.NET:  Check out Indie Brew Radio, now in Beta!

Tune in now and let us know what you think. Be a little patient, as the stream may be unavailable from time to time during the beta, but our goal is to have 100% Indie Music flowing 100% of the time.  Yup ALL the time. That’s the goal anyway.

 

There’s no plugin or player needed. Just go to the site and hit play from any browser:

http://indiebrew.net/brewpress/indie-brew-radio/

 It even works from your phone’s web browser (tested so far on iPhone/Safari and Android/Chrome)! We’ve got some great artisit already signed up, with more on the way really soon!  (If you are an Indie Musician, be sure to submit your music to be played on the air)!

Click the link…you know you want to: Indie Brew Radio BETA – indieBrew.Net.

Indie Brew Radio – Now in Beta – IndieBrew.NET.

Right as Rain – Original Song Lyrics

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Right as Rain – Original Song Lyrics

music in my head, but i can't hear it
music in my head, but i can’t hear it

I wrote this song back in 2009 (the picture above is from 2009 too lol), and found this half-finished, draft blog post with the lyrics and some background about the song. So now, just 5 short years later (5 years? reallly?), here you go!

Right As Rain – 2009

The inspiration came from a school project my son had to do on The Water Cycle. The other day it hit me that many of the relationships that I’ve had follow the same cycles. They always start off making you feel like you can just float off into the atmosphere forever…but sooner or later you fall back to earth. You can sink deep into the roots of the earth, grow and nourish the lives around you, or go with the flow and let yourself be washed out into the sea, into the seas of humanity. Just another drop of water in the ocean of humankind.

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You can download the MP3 for free from the player above or here: http://reverbnation.com/jamiegray

Lyrics, Right as Rain

Like a dew drop in the sunshine
We float into the atmosphere
Heated by the passion of the day
Drifting higher and higher
Cooling on the winds of fear
Until there’s nothing left to say
Smiles now have turned to ice
Too heavy for the air to hold
Falling we go falling thru the dark
Melting on the way back down
Splashing as we hit the ground
Thunder crashing in a lightning spark
It’s always right as rain
The circle starts again
This time you and me
Next time wait and see
Round and round we spiral thru the pain
Round and round and round and round again
Which path shook we take this time
Should we flow down to the sea or should we
Try to reach the heavens while we can
Join with mighty river currents
Or sink into the earthen roots
Try to choose, try to understand.
But like a dew drop in the sunshine
We float into the atmosphere
Here we are again now anyway
Drifting higher and higher
Flying on the winds of change
Wishing we could both just float away

©2009 – Jamie Gray Music – All Rights Reserved

Jamie Gray at Two Boots Bridgeport CT 9/7/14

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Solo Show Just Announced: Jamie Gray @ Two Boots, Bridgeport CT 9/7/14

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Jamie will be playing an Solo Acoustic show this Sunday, September 7th, 2014, at Two Boots in Bridgeport, CT. There’s no cover charge for the show.

Doors open at 7:30, and Jamie will close the show following two other performers.

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Jamie Gray at Two Boots Bridgeport CT Sunday 9/7/14 at 8pm