WTOP: “Wondering why you can’t listen to your favorite radio station on the internet right
now? Follow the money trail.

Most commercial radio stations in America… have been pulling
their streaming audio off the internet.” And more coverage, from The Industry Standard:

The law of unintended consequences
struck Internet broadcasting last week.
Many large radio stations stopped
streaming their content on the Internet
because of a clause that was negotiated
in the settlement of a two-year-old
strike. A few outlets carried news of the
outage last week; this week, reporters
are still finding new angles.

KPIG’s still streaming, though; they explain why.

“You have to want to experience something different. The
night is for people that are tired of everything being the
same and are bored of events that don’t even have a spark
of originality…” Deep Blue – an
original club concept devised by a Belfast collective of artists,
musicians, DJs, writers and photographers – is not for the nervous. Irish Times [via Robot Wisdom]

Prank heaven: Guardian reviewer likes Onion writer’s telephone-prank book. [via Robot Wisdom]

Bouncing Off The Walls. 20th century concert hall designs have supposedly been informed by acoustical science — often with disastrous results. Has the science finally advanced enough that the halls can be acoustical masterpieces as well as architectural? Lingua Franca

Miles too popular: cutting a cult off at the knees. New Statesman