Radio Zuckervati

I've rebuilt the shoutcast server on Radio Zuckervati, and fiddled with the page code in order to separate the different radio streams. I've made a separate one for each of the EFF Talk Radio, Freedom Fries, and Radio Zuckervati. If the stream is running, you should be able to see clickable images in the left column that look like this:

It's all in beta right now, and a lot depends on bandwidth and server power. So check back periodically. I should have things ironed out soon.

Posted by zuckervati at 05:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

If you're wondering what these new players are that are showing up in blog entries, I've started getting new submissions in from the lovely people over at MusicSubmit. This gives me an interesting resource for new and emerging artists. For each one I've posted, I've also requested a CD, and asked the artist's permission to play some of their songs on Radio Zuckervati.

So the players are kind of like posting neat YouTube movies. I like the sound of something, and make it available to you, even before I can get it into rotation on the radio stream.

(also, I get a buck if you buy their CD from the link)

Posted by zuckervati at 01:59 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Radio will be offline for the next little while -- some connection problems an buffering issues need to be addressed.

Posted by zuckervati at 12:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Been up and down this week. Hopefully the router will stay fixed for the next little while. Ran a firmware upgrade, and it should be stabilized.

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If you send us music for playlist rotation and subsequent broadcast, you need to either license the music in the Creative Commons, or use some other copyright scheme. In any case, please let us know, in as much detail as possible, what use limitations apply when/if we offer your music to our listeners. If you don't provide any copyright information, we will assume you are granting us a non-exclusive and license to use it in our streams. This allows you to provide us with content in exchange for us providing you an outlet for it.

If you no longer want your tunes on our playlist, you should let us know, and we will withdraw it from rotation.

We at Radio Zuckervati are BIG fans of Creative Commons licensing and would love it if you could release a few tracks to us under a CC license. This will give us the most flexibility in promoting your music through our site. For more information regarding the Creative Commons, check the website:

http://creativecommons.org/license/music

By sending any graphics or other information to Zuckervati.com you are granting us a non-exclusive license to use it. This information is not confidential and we can use it as we see fit -- that includes reproducing it, disclosing it, publishing it, or otherwise broadcasting it here. Subject to our Privacy Policy and your rights regarding the protection of personal data (we're not monsters, after all), the bottom line is that we may use anything you send us to post online. We're reasonable people, and we will deal with reasonable requests.

Blog content that isn't already covered by existing licenses is protected by a Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) with some rights reserved. Please keep this in mind when submitting to us.

Posted by zuckervati at 11:56 AM | Permalink

For submission requests, please contact: webmasterzuckervati.com

We at Radio Zuckervati have a pretty open music policy, and generally welcome submissions of all styles/genres of tracks, live sets, videos and DJ mixes. Currently there is a focus of indie rock, hip hop, breakbeat, ambient, electronica, electro, punk, all manners of trance, and plenty of styles of house music. We have a great sense of humour as well, and will accept comedy, spoken word and poetry for consideration.

We feature and review artists, groups, indie labels, DJs, etc. from all over the Interweb. We're not big, but we do represent a niche listenership. The more interesting your music, the more likely you'll be reviewed.

We are big, BIG fans of Creative Commons licensing and would love it if you could release a few tracks to us under a CC license. This will give us the most flexibility in promoting your music through our site. However, if you prefer to use a more traditional copyright scheme please let us know, in as much detail as possible, what use limitations apply and in what capacity (stream, download) we may offer your music to our listeners. For more information regarding the Creative Commons, check the website:

http://creativecommons.org/license/music

If you no longer want your tunes on our playlist, you should let us know, and we will withdraw it from rotation.

Sending in Music

You can send music and information to us through snail-mail, or send us links to your online tracks/mixes/videos, or you can send tracks/mixes through various file-sharing services online, such as yousendit (http://www.yousendit.com/). Use the webmaster[at]zuckervati.com email for yousendit.

Email us first for a snail-mail address. We'd like to know what to expect in our post box.

We just have a few guidelines to keep things running smoothly:

• Please do not send us any emails with attachments. Our server will delete them.
  
• For sending music samples: Please send all postal submissions on CD. Music files can be normal CD audio, Microsoft .wav files, .mp3s (please make them 128 kbps or better) and Ogg Vorbis (.ogg). Artists please send any full albums, eps, live sets, or a selection of your best tracks, DJs please send 1/2 mixes, and be sure to label all CDs properly.
  
• If you send us links to music in email, that's fine. We'll have a listen if the music files are in high quality (128 kbps or better) .mp3 or .ogg format. Please send links to any full albums, EPs, live sets, or a selection of your best tracks/mixes. If you have all your music in one spot on the Interweb, send a link to the page and we will check it out. We will not follow links to streams, unless they are Shoutcast-like.
  
• We will not add any RealAudio to our playlist, and will not consider these submissions.
  
• For sending information: Make sure you include a sheet with plenty of information about the artist in question. The bio should include details of the artist's history, influences gigs, releases, reviews, and anything you feel is relevant. Don't send an email with only links in it. That bugs us. Include info about yourself.
  
• For sending pictures: Data CDs and mixed-media CDs are acceptable too. We like images and artwork, heck, we love images and artwork. All images will be required in digital format (jpeg/bmp/gif/etc.) we will not scan images. Again, please do not send us any emails with attachments. Our server will delete them.
  

We promise to listen to everything you send us. We will add the best ones to our playlist if you let us. We will write reviews for the best ones and maybe some of the worst ones. At either extreme, you will probably get some added publicity.

Posted by zuckervati at 11:56 AM | Permalink

Received my first press kit. Still kinda surprised it showed up, what with me being some guy who hides in my basement, and all.

Well, it could have been the fancy-schmancy boilerplate I emailed out, but whatever it was, I'm now the proud -- well ... the owner of an official Julia Jane press kit CD.

We'll take a few days and give it a listen. They've even asked me to put the tunes into my rotation. Of all things...

Posted by zuckervati at 08:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We're back online again, and I've sorted out the network connections with some snappy new hardware. Radio should no longer be choppy and unlistenable.

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Freedom Fries Radio came into being after perusing the list of songs banned during the Gulf War, Gulf War II, and after 9/11.

Most of these songs and bands were banned by some authority or another.

The Big List of Censored Songs

All these recordings were banned during the gulf war in 1990:

• Jose Felicano & The Doors, "Light My Fire"


• Something Happens, "Parachute"


• The Cure, "Killing an Arab"


• Little angels, "Bone yard"


• Massive Attack had the word "attack" dropped during the gulf war


• Bomb the Bass also suffered during this period

• Abba, "Waterloo"


• A-ha, "Hunting High And Low"


• Alarm, "68 Guns"


• Animals, "We Got To Get Out Of This Place"


• Arrival, "I Will Survive"


• Joan Baez, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"


• Bangles, "Walk Like An Egyptian"


• The Beatles, "Back In The USSR"


• Pat Benetar, "Love Is A Battlefield"


• Big Country, "Fields Of Fire"


• Blondie, "Atomic"


• Boomtown Rats, "Don't Like Mondays"


• Brook Bros., "Warpaint"


• Arthur Brown, "Fire"


• Kate Bush, "Army Dreamers"


• Cher, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"


• Eric Clapton, "I Shot The Sheriff"


• Phil Collins, "In The Air Tonight"


• Cutting Crew, "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight"


• Skeeter Davies, "End Of The World"


• Desmond Dekker, "Israelites"


• Dire Straits, "Brothers In Arms"


• Duran Duran, "View To A Kill"


• Jose Feliciano, "Light My Fire"


• First Choice, "Armed And Extremely Dangerous"


• Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly"


• Frankie Goes To Hollywood, "Two Tribes"


• Eddie Grant, "Living On The Frontline"


• Eddie Grant, "Give Me Hope Joanna"


• Elton John, "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"


• Johnny Hates Jazz, "I Don't Want To Be A Hero"


• John Lennon, "Give Peace A Chance"


• John Lennon, "Imagine"


• Jona Louis, "Stop The Cavalry"


• Lulu Boom, "Bang A Bang"


• McGuinness Flint, "When I'm Dead And Gone"


• Bob Marley, "Buffalo Soldier"


• Maria Muldaur, "Midnight At The Oasis"


• M*A*S*H, "Suicide Is Painless"


• Mike And The Mechanics, "Silent Running"


• Rick Nelson, "Fools Rush In"


• Nicole, "A Little Peace"


• Billy Ocean, "When The Going Gets Tough"


• Donny Osmond, "Soldier Of Love"


• Paper Lace, "Billy Don't Be A Hero"


• Queen, "Killer Queen"


• Queen, "Flash"


• Martha Reeves, "Forget Me Not"


• B.A. Robertson, "Bang Bang"


• Tom Robinson, "War Baby"


• Kenny Rogers, "Ruby (Don't Take Your Love To Town)"


• Spandau Ballet, "I'll Fly For You"


• Specials, "Ghost Town"


• Bruce Springsteen, "I'm On Fire"


• Edwin Starr, "War"


• Status Quo, "In The Army Now"


• Status Quo, "Burning Bridges"


• Cat Stevens, "I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun"


• Rod Stewart, "Sailing"


• Donna Summer, "State Of Independence"


• Tears For Fears, "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"


• Temptations, "Ball Of Confusion"


• 10 CC, "Rubber Bullets"


• Stevie Wonder, "Heaven Help Us All"

Here is the list of songs deemed "lyrically questionable" by Clear Channel after 9/11. Note that there's no proof that Clear Channel actually prevented their affiliates from playing any songs (see the Snopes article for reference), but any time you say a song shouldn't be played, you are opening the door to censorship (See ABC News for the article):

• Alice In Chains, "Rooster"


• Alice In Chains, "Sea of Sorrow"


• Alice In Chains, "Down in a Hole"


• Alice In Chains, "Them Bones"


• Beastie Boys, "Sure Shot"


• Beastie Boys, "Sure Shot"


• Beastie Boys, "Sabotage"


• The Cult, "Fire Woman"


• Everclear, "Santa Monica (Watch the World Die)"


• Filter, Hey Man, "Nice Shot"


• Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly"


• Savage Garden, "Crash and Burn"


• Dave Matthews Band, "Crash Into Me"


• Bangles, "Walk Like an Egyptian"


• Pretenders, "My City Was Gone"


• Alanis Morissette, "Ironic"


• Barenaked Ladies, "Falling for the First Time"


• Fuel, "Bad Day"


• Korn, "Falling Away From Me"


• Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Aeroplane"


• Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Under the Bridge"


• Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"


• Peter Gabriel, "When You're Falling"


• System Of A Down, "Chop Suey!"


• Lenny Kravitz, "Fly Away"


• Tom Petty, "Free Fallin'"


• Bruce Springsteen, "I'm On Fire"


• Bruce Springsteen, "Goin' Down"


• Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight"


• Limp Bizkit, "Break Stuff"


• Green Day, "Brain Stew"


• Temple Of The Dog, "Say Hello to Heaven"


• Sugar Ray, "Fly"


• Local H, "Bound for the Floor"


• Slipknot, "Left Behind, Wait and Bleed"


• Bush, "Speed Kills"


• 311, "Down"


• Stone Temple Pilots, "Dead and Bloated"


• Soundgarden, "Fell on Black Days"


• Soundgarden, "Black Hole Sun"


• Metallica, "Seek and Destroy"


• Metallica, "Harvester of Sorrow"


• Metallica, "Enter Sandman"


• Metallica, "Fade to Black"


• Nine Inch Nails, "Head Like a Hole"


• Godsmack, "Bad Religion"


• Tool, "Intolerance"


• Soundgarden, "Blow Up the Outside World"


• Nena, "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons"


• AC/DC, "Shot Down in Flames"


• AC/DC, "Shoot to Thrill"


• AC/DC, "Dirty Deeds"


• AC/DC, "Highway to Hell"


• AC/DC, "Safe in New York City"


• AC/DC, "TNT"


• AC/DC, "Hell's Bells"


• Black Sabbath, "War Pigs"


• Black Sabbath, "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"


• Black Sabbath, "Suicide Solution"


• Kansas, "Dust in the Wind"


• Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven"


• The Beatles, "A Day in the Life"


• The Beatles, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"


• The Beatles, "Ticket To Ride"


• The Beatles, "Obla Di, Obla Da"


• Bob Dylan/Guns N Roses, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"


• Arthur Brown, "Fire"


• Blue Oyster Cult, "Burnin' For You"


• Paul McCartney & Wings, "Live and Let Die"


• Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe"


• Jackson Browne, "Doctor My Eyes"


• John Mellencamp, "Crumbling Down"


• John Mellencamp, "Paper In Fire"


• U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday"


• Boston, "Smokin"


• Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young"


• Dio, "Holy Diver"


• Steve Miller, "Jet Airliner"


• Van Halen, "Jump"


• Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust"


• Queen, "Killer Queen"


• Pat Benatar, "Hit Me with Your Best Shot"


• Pat Benatar, "Love is a Battlefield"


• Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party"


• REM, "It's the End of the World as We Know It"


• Talking Heads, "Burning Down the House"


• Judas Priest, "Some Heads Are Gonna Roll"


• Pink Floyd, "Run Like Hell"


• Pink Floyd, "Mother"


• John Parr, "St. Elmo's Fire"


• Barry McGuire, "Eve of Destruction"


• Steam, "Na Na Na Na Hey Hey"


• Drifters, "On Broadway"


• Shelly Fabares, "Johnny Angel"


• Los Bravos, "Black is Black"


• Peter & Gordon, "I Go To Pieces"


• Peter & Gordon, "A World Without Love"


• Elvis Presley, "(You're the) Devil in Disguise"


• Zombies, "She's Not There"


• Elton John, "Bennie & The Jets"


• Elton John, "Daniel"


• Elton John, "Rocket Man"


• Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls of Fire"


• Santana, "Evil Ways"


• Louis Armstrong, "What A Wonderful World"


• Youngbloods, "Get Together"


• Ad Libs, "The Boy from New York City"


• Peter Paul & Mary, "Blowin' in the Wind"


• Peter Paul & Mary, "Leavin' on a Jet Plane"


• Rolling Stones, "Ruby Tuesday"


• Simon & Garfunkel, "Bridge Over Troubled Water"


• Happenings, "See You in Septemeber"


• Carole King, "I Feel the Earth Move"


• Zager & Evans, "In the Year 2525"


• Norman Greenbaum, "Spirit in the Sky"


• Brooklyn Bridge, "Worst That Could Happen"


• Three Degrees, "When Will I See You Again"


• Cat Stevens, "Peace Train"


• Cat Stevens, "Morning Has Broken"


• Jan & Dean, "Dead Man's Curve"


• Martha & The Vandellas, "Nowhere to Run"


• Martha & The Vandellas/Van Halen, "Dancing in the Streets"


• Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"


• Sam Cooke/Herman's Hermits, "Wonderful World"


• Petula Clark, "A Sign of the Times"


• Don Mclean, "American Pie"


• J. Frank Wilson/Pearl Jam, "Last Kiss"


• Buddy Holly & The Crickets, "That'll Be the Day"


• John Lennon, "Imagine"


• Bobby Darin, "Mack the Knife"


• The Clash, "Rock the Casbah"


• Surfaris, "Wipeout"


• Blood Sweat & Tears, "And When I Die"


• Dave Clark Five, "Bits and Pieces"


• Tramps, "Disco Inferno"


• Paper Lace, "The Night Chicago Died"


• Frank Sinatra, "New York, New York"


• Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Travelin' Band"


• The Gap Band, "You Dropped a Bomb On Me"


• Alien Ant Farm, "Smooth Criminal"


• 3 Doors Down, "Duck and Run"


• The Doors, "The End"


• Third Eye Blind, "Jumper"


• Neil Diamond, "America"


• Skeeter Davis, "End of the World"


• Ricky Nelson, "Travelin' Man"


• Chi-Lites, "Have You Seen Her"


• Animals, "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"


• Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me"


• Mitch Ryder, "Devil with the Blue Dress"


• James Taylor, "Fire and Rain"


• Edwin Starr/Bruce Springsteen, "War"


• Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Tuesday's Gone"


• Drowning Pool, "Bodies"


• Mudvayne, "Death Blooms"


• Megadeth, "Dread and the Fugitive"


• Megadeth, "Sweating Bullets"


• Saliva, "Click Click Boom"


• P.O.D., "Boom"

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