A little of History: Internet Radio

 

Internet radio was pioneered by Carl Malamud. In 1993, Malamud launched "Internet Talk Radio", which was the "first computer-radio talk show, each week interviewing a computer expert". The first Internet concert was broadcast on June 24, 1993, by the band Severe Tire Damage. In March 1994, an unofficial automated rebroadcast of Irish radio news was setup as the RTE To Everywhere Project, allowing Irish people across the World daily access to radio news from home until it was rendered obsolete in 1998. In November 1994, a Rolling Stones concert was the "first major cyberspace multicast concert." Mick Jagger opened the concert by saying, "I want to say a special welcome to everyone that's, uh, climbed into the Internet tonight and, uh, has got into the M-bone. And I hope it doesn't all collapse." [twenty] On November 7, 1994, WXYC (89.3 FM Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) became the first traditional radio station to announce broadcasting on the Internet. WXYC used an FM radio connected to a system at SunSite, later known as Ibiblio, running Cornell's CU-SeeMe software. WXYC had begun test broadcasts and bandwidth testing as early as August 1994. WREK (91.1 FM, Atlanta, GA USA) started streaming on the same day using their own custom software called CyberRadio1. However, unlike WXYC, this was WREK's beta launch and the stream was not advertised until a later date. On December 3, 1994, KJHK 90.7 FM, a campus radio station located in Lawrence, Kansas, at the University of Kansas, became one of the first radio stations in the world to broadcast a live and continuous stream over Internet radio. Time magazine said that RealAudio took "advantage of the latest advances in digital compression" and delivered "AM radio-quality sound in so-called real time." Eventually, companies such as Nullsoft and Microsoft released streaming audio players as free downloads . As the software audio players became available, "many Web-based radio stations began springing up." In 1995, Scott Bourne founded NetRadio.com as the world's first Internet-only radio network. NetRadio.com was a pioneer in Internet radio. It was the first Internet-only network to be licensed by ASCAP. NetRadio eventually went on to an IPO in October 1999. Most of the current Internet radio providers followed the path that NetRadio.com carved out in digital media. In March 1996, Virgin Radio - London became the first European radio station to broadcast its full program live on the Internet. It broadcast its FM signal, live from the source, simultaneously on the Internet 24 hours a day. On May 1, 1997, Radio306.com (now Pure Rock Radio) launched in Saskatoon, Canada. The internet-only station purerockradio.net celebrated 20 years on air in 2017 as the longest-running Canadian internet station. Internet radio also provided new opportunities to mix music with advocacy. In February 1999, Zero24-7 Web Radio was launched. t was the first internet radio station to be crowdsourced and programmed by professional broadcasters and crowdfunded by a unique partnership of people, charities and businesses. Out of Washington DC, the station mixed progressive music and green messages. It was created by BBC and WHFS veteran Mark Daley. Internet radio attracted significant media and investor attention in the late 1990s. In 1998, the initial public stock offering for Broadcast.com set a record at the time for the largest jump in price in stock offerings in the United States. The offering price was US $18 and the company's shares opened at US $68 on the first day of trading. The company was losing money at the time and indicated in a prospectus filed with the Securities Exchange Commission that they expected the losses to continue indefinitely. Yahoo! purchased Broadcast.com on July 20, 1999, for US $5.7 billion. With the advent of streaming RealAudio over HTTP, streaming became more accessible to a number of radio shows. One such show, TechEdge Radio in 1997, was broadcast in three formats - live on the radio, live from a RealAudio server and streamed from the web over HTTP. In 1998, the longest running internet radio show, The Vinyl Lounge, began netcasting from Sydney, Australia, from Australia's first Internet radio station, NetFM (www.netfm.net). In 1999, Australian telco "Telstra" launched The Basement Internet Radio Station but it was later shut down in 2003 as it was not a viable business for the company. From 2000 onwards, most Internet radio stations increased their stream quality as bandwidth became more economical. Today, Most stations stream between 64 kbit /s and 128 kbit /s providing near CD quality audio.  As of 2017 the mobile app Radio Garden, a research project of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, was streaming approximately 8,000 radio stations to a global audience.

New blues band on the radio from this weekend: The Tamarros

 

 "In December 2019 I met with my old friends with whom I played in our group called "The Tamarros" in Trentino Alto Adige in the distant 1985 and surroundings .... it was a good experience ..... we decided to resonate our material by rearranging it with new instruments ..... and why not continue the adventure with new pieces ..... original components: - Angelo Alabiso (me) - drums, Sepp Thaler - electric guitar, Fabio Rossi - electric bass ....... other friends are added occasionally."

New band from this weekend on JAM Radio: The One Wish Carnival

 

 

The One Wish Carnival is a coterie of troubadours anointed in the ashrams of guru maharaji.
Being blessed with the powers to see through the deceptions of Babylon, the OWC was summoned by the most high to set into motion a street wise ministry of song and dance to bring a message of joy and light into the darkness.

Site:  https://www.onewishcarnival.com/

New blues band from this weekend on JAM Radio: BJ Wilbanks

 

 

Georgia-based BJ Wilbanks's authentic exploration of love and the pursuit of enlightenment has been referred to as “Back Porch Soul,” fusing the musical roots of Americana, Motown and Delta Blues into an intoxicating blend of Southern Rock. BJ's solo work explores the intimate, raw, emotional feeling of the gospel, blues, and 70s rock he was raised on as a child. The BJ Wilbanks Band has played shows with famous acts Drivin N Cryin, Mother's Finest, and the legendary Gladys Knight. BJ’s gregarious personality is palpable on record, often channeling other charismatic musical personalities like Otis Redding, Sturgill Simpson and current retro revivalists like Leon Bridges. His self-titled album, BJ Wilbanks (released April 28th) captures the refined analogue production qualities of yesteryear, complete with swampy southern bass and Stax-inspired horn sections. It is of a reminiscent of bygone era when music was so good, it transcended genre. “The best music brings the most unlikely people together,” BJ asserts. “It's music from the soul.”

The Just Imagines

 

Tyler Cressman and Cirovelle are members of The Just Imagines with Ciroyelle. They are a real life power couple who met through music and are now engaged and have formed a band. From the USA and the instrumentalist and producer in the band and Ciroyelle is from Germany and they both compose the lyrics and do vocals. Ciroyelle in charge of all visual art and promotion of the band. They are in the process of releasing their debut album, which tells their true love story as they wait for Ciroyelle to be able to move to the USA. This album includes songs from across the musical spectrum, including blues, folk, jazz, reggae, rock, funk, classical and more! The intention is that the album sounds as diverse as our love for one another. 

The first single, Not a Chance Encounter, is out now and is a sultry and psychedelic blues epic proclaiming their meeting could not have been by accident.  They both do vocals in this song and it features long and powerful guitar solos conveying the vibes of the song.  It has already been featured on multiple FM stations, podcasts, youtube shows, and internet radios. There is a pop art style music video for this song on our youtube channel as well.

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JAM Radio - Bulletin 12/31/2021

 

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Winamp, the famous media library

 

 

The popularization of the internet, the lowering of its rates and the digitization of music made the computer take on the role of source and player of our songs. Regarding this, it is impossible to ignore a chapter in this story in which piracy was the order of the day, with protagonists such as KaZaA or eMule (perhaps more common and longer in time depending on the country). Either way, getting a significant number of songs in mp3 format made the players much more required and someone thought that what was offered so far (Windows Media Player, Real Player, etc.) did not satisfy the needs or did not give the option to do so, specifically Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev (former students at the University of Utah). They created the germ of the player, which came to be a very simple graphical interface to make the use of AMP (Advanced Multimedia Products, which is considered the first * .mp3 player) more comfortable on Windows systems (a title bar and a menu bar with a few playback commands). In 1997, Frankel created Nullsoft, his company, and Winamp 1 was released. It was not the only alternative player created to listen to this music format, but it was the one that combined features such as creating playlists or random playback, all in an interface that used to be quite intuitive. It soon became popular, becoming one of the most downloaded software in the last 10 years. What started out as free software ended with version 1.5, at which point the freeware license became shareware, giving users a free 14-day trial after which they would be required to pay $10. The show became popular to the point where Frankel earned $ 100,000 a month. And the success did not go unnoticed for what was a great company of the time, AOL, which bought the software from Nullsoft for 80 million dollars, in fact it also kept the streaming service and the SHOUTcast protocol. The intention was to create an online radio platform such as Pandora or Last.FM unifying the Winamp and Warner Music catalogs, but they did not succeed (the existence of one and the absence of the other is the proof). This also coincided chronologically with the launch of the iPod and its song sales platform, iTunes, which, although it was somewhat behind the mp3 revolution, had its role in normalizing the purchase of mp3s to the detriment of piracy in the United States. AOL would end up dismantling Nullsoft in December 2003 and Frankel left the new parent company in January 2004. Rocknerd cites Nullsoft's Rob Lord in relation to the acquisition of AOL and what Winamp could have been had it not been managed by AOL the way it was. Depending on how familiar Winamp is to you (if you were a user from the beginning, last minute or if you have never used it), one interface or another will have stuck in your retina, but the most popular ones may be from the 1.9, when quite a few new features and items were added. In the Old Version blog (now defunct) they made their particular tribute to the app by showing some of the interfaces of these versions that allowed us to recover some images. As we mentioned before, the first version was 0.2 (April 1997), which already went beyond plain text to present an interface with the basic elements of a player (title, playback buttons, bitrate, audio output mode, etc.). The dark gray background that would become a hallmark would come with 0.92, in addition to the upper bar with yellow lines, and in 1.0 a graphic equalizer, the list editor, a frequency analyzer and the bar would be added. search. Version 1.6 started another of the characteristics that had the best reception: personalization. In addition, they were expanding the support of different formats, such as MIDI, * .wave and CDs, which came with version 1.91. This interface with the equalizer occupying a large part of it and the screen for the playlists may be quite familiar to you. With version 2.0 came the Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS) by default (until then it was a separate plug-in), which allowed to create rhythm-dependent animations on demand. But it was ** in 2002 when Winamp 3 ** arrived, after the purchase of AOL and completely rewritten at the code level, incorporating a multimedia library, a renewed interface and the only one adapted to Linux of all the existing ones (and video support from the 2.9), although there was some rejection by consuming too many system resources and being somewhat unstable.  

With version 5 in December 2003, the code bases of Winamp 2 and 3 would end up converging, trying to include the best of each one, with a renewed interface based on that of version 3 that supported the skins of version 2, as well as its plug-ins. Later, version 5.5 would coincide with the 10th anniversary in 2007 of the app (called 'The 10th anniversary edition'), which unified the modules in a single window and added support for languages ​​other than English. Did Winamp die? If it had at least one sentence notice, the end of its availability was announced for December 20, 2013, after 15 years of existence. An announcement that came after a series of layoffs in April of that year in AOL Music (division to which Winamp belonged) and the rise of streaming. Not that day came, it did not disappear, and what there was was a certain abundance of rumors of its purchase for which names like Microsoft itself sounded. But in the end, it was not those of Redmond who put in the capital to keep this part of the history of the mp3 alive, but it was the Belgian company Radionomy, an aggregator of online radio channels that already had more than 6,000 radio stations. However, this purchase did not bring too many movements for the famous player and at the end of 2015 it was Vivendi Group who took over a large part of Radionomy's shares. In early 2016 it was making headlines that there would be a new version of Winamp, aimed at polishing it out of the libraries for which Radionomy had no use rights. Now, a few years later, we are still waiting for that hypothetical version that would also include mobile devices, but although its version 5.8 was released if you go to its official website you will see that it does not load. In the end those "novelties on the way" that were promised in it did not arrive. Of this popular player there was even a version for Android in 2010 (with the last update in 2013), although today the battle of listening to music in digital format is broadly a matter of streaming, either on a computer or on devices. mobiles. Be that as it may, the fact is that Winamp is still alive in the hearts of many users who prioritized customization as a hallmark and the possibilities it gave with respect to other software. Although while there is someone who conserves and uses it, we have no choice but to end this review post with the phrase that every fan maintains: long live Winamp.

History of blues music

 Blues is the name given to the musical form and the music genre that emerged from the African-American communities and the black cultural melting pot of the American South of the 1890’s, drawing on a fascinating mixture of African-American spirituals, traditional songs, work songs of the slaves, field hollers, shouts and chants, folk ballads, European hymns, contemporary dance music and rhymed simple narrative ballads. During their back-breaking toil in the fields of the Southern plantations, black slaves developed a “call and response” way of singing to give rhythm to the drudgery of their work.

The term blues may mean melancholy or sadness, but not as much in recent years as at the outset. The origin of the term was most likely derived from mysticism involving blue indigo, which was used by many West African cultures in death and mourning ceremonies where the mourner’s clothes were dyed blue to indicate misfortune and suffering.

Today, when one thinks of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. When you lose your job you get the blues. When your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. When your dog dies, you get the blues.

While blues lyrics often deals with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond self pity. The blues is also about overcoming bad luck, saying what you feel, getting rid of frustrations, letting your hair dow, and just plain having fun. The best blues is visceral, cathartic, and starkly emotional on a very personal level. Blues goes from unbridled joy to deep sadness. No other form of music communicates more genuine personal emotion.

The blues grew up in the Mississippi Delta just upriver from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. Blues and jazz have always influenced each other, and they still interact in countless ways today. Following the end of the Civil War, black men had few options other than doing backbreaking manual work or something like becoming a traveling minstrel. Many chose to rely on their physical stamina and the soulful and melancholy lyrics of many blues songs to create a powerful, emotive and rhythmic music celebrating the life of black Americans. The lyrics they sang reflected their daily lives including sex, drinking, jail, murder, poverty, hard labor and lost love.

In the early 20th century, the blues was considered disreputable as white audiences began listening to blues. Blues came into its own as an important part of the country’s relatively new popular culture in the 1920s with the recording, first, of great female classic blues singers and, then, of the country folk blues singers of the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont of the Carolinas, and Texas. The first copyrighted song was in l912, the “Dallas Blues.” As huge numbers of African-Americans left the South at this time due to failed Reconstruction, dismal economic conditions, oppression in the South and the hope of better treatment in the North between l915 and l940, the blues went with them, and settled in the urban centers of the North, especially Chicago. A more urban, electric blues developed as a result, which eclipsed the rural blues of the South and eventually became both rock and roll and what would become known as rhythm and blues.

Blues fell somewhat out of popular favor until the later l950’s. In l958, the Kingston Trio recorded “Tom Dooley” and gave birth to a folk revival. Folk and blues were reintroduced to white Americans. Blues had a huge influence on American popular music. Popular musicians Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry with their enthusiastic playing styles departed from the melancholy aspects of blues. After this time, the blues became increasingly merged with rock music to form the rock blues bands of the l960s and 70s.

When the country blues moved to the cities and other locales, it took on various regional characteristics. These were called the St. Louis Blues, the Memphis Blues, the Louisiana Blues, etc. Today there are many different shades of blues. Forms include:

Traditional country Blues —A general term that describes the rural blues of the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont and other rural locales.

Jump Blues —A danceable amalgam of swing and blues and a precursor to thythm and blues.

Boogie-woogie —A piano based blues derived from barrelhouse and ragtime.

Chicago Blues —Delta blues electrified.

Cool Blues —A sophisticated piano based form that owes much to jazz.

West Coast Blues—Popularized mainly by Texas musicians who moved to California, heavily influenced by the swing beat.

There are Blues Societies all over the world, including New Mexico. In recent years, perhaps as a result of the recessionary economic times there has been a revival of interest in the Blues.

 Source: https://santafe.com