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The coalition has collected stories and quotes from other musicians telling how internet radio has impacted their lives. We're passing the mic to you -- feel free to share your voice so you can be heard.

pass the mic

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Byron Keith Taylor

For the longest time, the mainstream community including mainstream radio have thwarted my attempts as an independent artist to gain exposure because I am not associated with major funding or a major label. Internet radio not only embraced me but also allowed my music to be heard all over the world and now I have a fan base, albeit underground. If it were not for internet radio stations, I would NOT stand a chance to make a living as an artist by word of mouth and CD sales. by undercutting this valuable resource, the government is actually crippling many musical voices like myself that needs to be heard! Please do not further the destruction of the independent voice because we can determine the future of even mainstream music. artists like Nirvana and Ani DiFranco are prime examples. Thank you.

Consider the Source

Pandora allows me to discover new music while working on my computer. Pandora is the not-so-creepy guy who works at the record store and knows more about obscure early 1900 field recordings and Cambodia psychadelia than anyone should.

The Organ Donors

We depend on internet radio stations to air our music. This is our largest audience.

Minstrosity

While my band has ended its run, I fully intend to continue making music.  The Internet is the only place where I have a broadcast outlet.  Don't let it die!

Last Fall

Internet Radio is an amazingly powerful technology that must be kept inexpensive so it can continue to flourish.  There's no better place for independent bands like mine to be heard and build a fan base.  Please don't ruin this wonderful model by raising rates beyond what's acceptable to the market place.  We need Internet Radio for more reasons that I can mention here.  Please keep it alive.  Independent musicians and music fans everywhere are hoping you do the right thing here.  Don't ruin it for us.  Thank you!

Travis Thompson

I am a young college graduate graduate trying to make a difference through my music in other peoples lives.  Internet radio is the ONLY venue which I have access to in order to showcase my music.  Please help save internet radio.

Thrashbear

I am an amateur musician where internet radio will play a large role in sharing my music.  If internet radio is priced out of existence, budding musicians like myself will have even more limited options in which to market our art.

Betty Tilley Music Ministry

As am independant Artist it is hard to get stations to play you music.  It is usually the big dogs with the big money that gets played.  Money Talks.   Live 365 has helped the uknown artist and independant get their music out and spread the good news about our Lord and Savior Jesus. Live 365 has given us that opportunity.  The new royalty rates are going to limit tremedously the music selection.   Only the ones with lots of money will be able to survive.

Rind Stars

Internet radio is as good for small artists as it is for fans. People who love the Red Hot Chili Peppers know where to find them. People who like small groups like mine, Rind Stars, are lucky to find us in the huge sprawling pool of great music out there. Internet radio links artists to people who would appreciate their art. Keep internet able to compete with broadcats radio. It's important for the progress of the species. Sounds like a broad jump, but it's true.

A Street Car Named Desire

I am a bassist and I play in small bands here and there. These Internet Radio channels and such is how we become heard. If you remove these stations I predict most small bands out there will never make it because of the AM FM stations mostly don't play new artists. Please, if you love music stand up and show how much music means to you!

Lao Tizer

Please don't damage emerging artists careers in this day when the music business is in such awkward and scary times.  The voice internet radio provides is valuable and important to the art form.  In these days of free downloads, anything generating revenue and exposure through legitmate means is so important.

Michael Tomlinson

After the deregulation of radio, which knocked hundreds of artists off the airways because of program narrowing, Internet radio has become the means with which I and other independent artists are able to share our music with the world.

The Big Evil Acoustic Trio

Webcasting is essential to the performing and listening public.  For many artists it is the only way to have any prospect of being heard by anyone outside their general physical location.  The increases simply cannot be allowded to go into effect.  It would crush independent artists and record companies.

Truckee Brothers

I'm a small indie musician who's music has an opportunity for exposure on internet radio stations that it wouldn't have otherwise.  At our level we rely on touring, album and merchandise sales and word of mouth to stay alive and internet and non-commercial radio is a large part of that.  Very little terrestrial radio is available to us, so internet radio is extremely important. 

For all our fellow bands and artists at this level internet radio is imperative and we need to protect it.  The hike in royalty monies gathered won't directly effect us until we reach the level where we have more terrestrial radio and broadcast exposure available to us anyway.  For us Internet Radio is as important to the freedoms of information exchange as it is in getting our music, that we work so hard to bring to life, heard.

Dj Teknotuck

I know what artists make on their recordings and sales, I also know how much money is sqwandered by the agencies responsible. If this is about helping us artists get paid then reform the industry and you can start with the RIAA and their kind, they are parasites that we are forced to deal with who have their interests placed above ours. They are killing internet radio because without competition, everyone again has to deal with them.

Island Beat Entertainment

My name is Teresa and I run a company called IslandBeats.com. I work with Pacific Island Artists located all over the world to help them get their music out there and to eventually sell their music, which in turn helps them perpertuate their music and the Polynesian culture. Without Internet Radio, it makes it almost impossible for these artists to have their music heard to the vast amount of people looking to hear what they have created. Most all of these artists are independant and  are not able to get mainstream radio play. Please, support the new bill, making it a level playing field for all.

The Whorrorz

Internet radio has been the only means of spreading our music to the public so far other than playing live shows, our local radio stations are not reliable to play our music.

Step From Eternity

I am the leader of a small band in Gainesville, Florida. We have been around for about a year now, and we threw out all our old work, and we are recreating our music. We are only a small band, and we are still getting started. We don't exactly have that much music right now, but I will definitly want to get my music out there. And I know Pandora is a reliable networkl that i Have used for a few years now. And I personally think it is a great way to get people to hear our music.

Rick Underwood

I'm just a singer/songwriter tired of all the greed in the music business. It's time for this to stop! Our music should be heard by whatever means we see fit and Not the way 'they' see fit!

Rick Underwood

Corey

As an independent artist internet radio is THE way to get exposure. If I would have a song that's being played all the time on a large number of net radio stations, it would be nice to have some royalty compensation for that. But since it's hardly ever the case, I will only lose out if rates charged to netradio stations are raised to such a ridiculous amount. STOP THIS MADNESS.

 

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