Pay to Play

Soundcheck | Jun 29, 2010

There’s a new target in music’s ongoing copyright wars: the small venue. Today, we’ll hear how churches, coffee shops, house parties, and other non-traditional performance spaces are under new pressure to pay for the right to present live music. Later, roots rocker Alejandro Escovedo tells us about his newest album, and indie-folk duo The Unthanks join us to perform live.

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