RTP-area local music and culture

[Brian Russell <brussell AT ibiblio.org>]

www.greytuesday.org

From the above website:

It's time for music fans to stand up and demand change from the music 
industry's copyright cartel.

 Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience: 
websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site for 24 hours 
in protest of EMI's attempts to censor this work.

 DJ Danger Mouse created a remix of Jay-Z's the Black Album and the 
Beatles White Album, and called it the Grey Album.  Jay-Z's record 
label, Roc-A-Fella, released an a capella version of his Black Album 
specifically to encourage remixes like this one.  But despite praise 
from music fans and major media outlets like Rolling Stone ("an 
ingenious hip-hop record that sounds oddly ahead of its time") and the 
Boston Globe (which called it the "most creatively captivating" album 
of the year), EMI has sent cease and desist letters demanding that 
stores destroy their copies of the album and websites remove them from 
their site. EMI claims copyright control of the Beatles 1968 White 
Album.