Ken McGuire

Category: Music

Because it is my love…

  • Revisiting KilkennyMusic.com

    Revisiting KilkennyMusic.com

    Mugger Dave, Performing at KilkennyMusic.com's One Take Sessions a few years ago
    Mugger Dave, Performing at KilkennyMusic.com’s One Take Sessions a few years agokilke

    I’ve got unfinished business with kilkennymusic.com. As an online resource, it was borne out of a passion for music and local music in particular. Kicking things off in 2005, I built the platform to share and promote activities of bands on the ground in Kilkenny. In a pre-Facebook era it was the go-to place for music information, videos, gigs, photos, MP3s and had a bustling forum with membership in four figures.

    Expanding from a one man operation to a four man operation, we produced countless videos, podcasts, picked up award nominations, funding, ran countless weekend shows, toured with bands, booked venues, spent way too much on printing, pints and petrol money but had huge craic along the way.

    For me, the foot came off the pedal in 2011/12 as the gigs began to slow down and there wasn’t any activity at all in 2013. Local music listings and writings shifted out to the Kilkenny Events Guide, which I kicked off in 2011 and still continues today with new content partners on board for 2014 to help with the workload.

    In the time since things slowed down, I’ve started in radio, reconnecting with acts we had put on the stage and reconnecting with things on the ground in terms of music. Plus, after a break that mirrors that of the One Take Sessions, I’m back playing music myself and expect to be gigging somewhat this year.

    I’ve felt over the past two years or so that I could be doing the site much more the justice that it deserves, that unfinished business feeling eating away at me. So, I’m dusting things off, rebuilding from the ground up, clean slate and going for broke in 2014.

    Here’s to it paying off and returning to its somewhat former glory.

    Visit KilkennyMusic.com, find KilkennyMusic.com on Facebook or follow @kilkennymusic on Twitter.

  • The Midnight Union Band: If You’d Stay

    The Midnight Union Band: If You’d Stay

    Appearing online yesterday, here’s the latest music video from Kilkenny’s The Midnight Union Band for their track, If You’d Stay.

    Shot by Darragh Byrne in Set Theatre, Kilkenny. The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming debut EP Behind The Truth which lands on 13 September.

  • 2manydjs Tickets Up For Grabs

    If you’re not a reader of KilkennyMusic.com you might have missed a ticket giveaway there.

    Heineken Green Spheres comes to Kilkenny this weekend bringing with it Delorentos, Alex Metric (both Friday), Jape (Saturday) and 2manydjs on Sunday night.

    While the first three gigs have tickets available first come first served, we’ve got two pairs of tickets for 2manydjs to give away for the Sunday night.

    All you have to do is answer a simple question on the blog and we’ll draw the winners on Wednesday at midday.

    Get in while you can…

    Note: posted via WordPress for Android.

  • Win A Copy Of The Lions Mane ‘Strands’ By Commenting

    <a href="http://music.iamthelionsmane.com/album/strands">DNA 1 by The Lions Mane</a>

    The Lions Mane, one of Kilkenny’s rising progressive rock acts, released their debut album ‘Strands‘ online last Friday. The 12-track album is available to buy here for just €10. If you like what you hear in the preview above you might also like to hear that I’ve got two copies of the album, digitally, to give away.

    To win, all you’ve got to do is leave a comment here tell me you want a copy of the album.

    Simple as that.

    Competition closes 4pm on Friday and winners will be announced shortly afterwards and sent their copies of the album (at 320kb MP3).

  • Gerry Adams On Music (and his iPod)

    KCLR96FM are a great bunch. They’ve had me on the air countless times over the last three years to promote everything from Kilkenny Music to the Blog Awards, PodCamp to Devious Theatre and beyond. I’ve had guest slots on shows on the station (used to do a regular gadget slot with them) and more recently was on air with Sue Nunn talking up the evolution of the mouse. So when I heard that Sue was going to have Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams as a guest on her show yesterday I thought I’d ask him a question – or have them ask a question for me.

    I missed the majority of the show due to this week’s PodCamp Podcast and was amazed to hear him still on the air about 11:50am, having gone live just after the news at 11.

    Anyway – the question was posed to him “from Carlow Music and KilkennyMusic.com was simple and completely (one would hope), non-political. “What’s your favourite band”.

    In his own words, here’s Gerry Adams talking up his favourite band, music and his new iPod, the clip provided to me by KCLR96FM. You can listen to On The Record with Sue Nunn Monday to Friday from 10am to 12pm, streaming live via KCLR96FM.com.

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  • A New Music Conference for the New Music Economy – This Weekend

    I made a note to myself that for 2009 (not a resolution now) I would get on the road more – get to Dublin more, grab a coffee in the Absolute Hotel in Limerick at some stage, and hit more events and evenings. One event I’m sorry to be missing though (it’s a five hour drive up and I’m swamped for the weekend) is UnConvention, taking place in Belfast today and tomorrow.

    What is UnConvention?

    Unconvention is an unconference aimed at the grass roots of the music industry – bringing together musicians and industry professionals for conversation, inspiration and collaboration.

    or as About.com have it listed…

    “a music industry convention that really isn’t like a music industry convention at all. The event is aimed at the independent music industry. Entrance fees are in keeping with indie music budgets (free!) and the discussions all surround making it in music outside of the mainstream machine. At night, indie musicians get to show off their chops on local stages”

    Bands, labels, entrepreneurs, music industry insiders and outsiders – it’s an event that I should really be at and I know I should be at so I’m happy to be following the activity for the weekend here on Twitter and here at UnConventionBelfast.com.

    The Official Blurb

    The 2-day conference has attracted strong interest from all over the UK and Ireland; organisations who have signed up for involvement include BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio Ulster, Music Managers Forum, Island Records, Sony Music Publishing, NIMIC, Oh Yeah Music Centre, Birmingham University, Fat Northerner Records, Smalltown America Records, Richter Collective and First Music Contact, among many others. Radio 1’s Huw Stephens was one of the first to sign up to the event, and had this to say: “I’m looking forward to finding out more about the scene in Belfast, which seems to be thriving at the moment. Rory McConnell’s Radio 1 show features so many quality artists from Northern Ireland so to get to Belfast and meet the bands and managers is an exciting prospect. In the music world, doing it yourself is essential at the moment, and so I’m looking forward to seeing what will be discussed.”

    Friday night’s showcase line-up includes Ed Zealous, A Plastic Rose, Colenso Parade and Strait Laces on the live stage, and Vertigo Smith, Escape Act, Junior Johnson, Cat Molojian, Seven Summits and The Monts; spanning a highly diverse range of styles and genres.

    From a music industry perspective, the potential of UnConvention to boost the industry locally and further afield was recognised by key sponsor, Belfast City Council. Councillor Michael Browne, Chairman of BCC’s Development Committee comments “Belfast City Council is committed to helping support the development of the creative industries in our city which, if nurtured and supported in the right way, have the ability to make Belfast truly competitive on the global stage. UnConvention provides an exciting opportunity to showcase Belfast’s eclectic music scene and musicians and provide useful networking and business development opportunities for those working in this sector.”

    Attendees can that Rich Dale, Tracy Dempsey, Nick Fitzsimons, Jennie McCullough and Andy McMillan for organising the event.

  • Her Beautiful Ideas

    I’m not one to usually post music videos on this blog though as I’m flagging the above video for KilkennyMusic.com I thought I’d share it here as well given the sheer work, effort (50-odd hours of production) and stop-go animation enjoyment that’s gone into ‘Her Beautiful Ideas’ by The Guggenheim Grotto.

    The track, ‘Her Beautiful Ideas’ features on ‘Happy The Man’, the lads’ second album. I say “lads” as we’ve had them to Kilkenny for maybe six or seven shows over the last three years and no doubt we’ll have them down again. The video itself was produced, edited and directed by Aaron Copeland and Johnny Fitzsimons.

    Check them out here.

  • Bandcamp Launched & It Looks Interesting


    Bandcamp Screencast from Ethan Diamond on Vimeo.

    Cheers to Will Knott for the nudge on this one but it looks like BandCamp.mu has gotten underway and could provide a nice outlet for bands looking to distribute music online and further enhance their fan base.

    On the front of things from watching the screencast (above) it all seems pretty straightforward – add you profile, add your tracks, add some cover art and away you go. Grant API access to your PayPal account and you can start selling tracks direct from Bandcamp on a very Radiohead-esque “name your price” basis.

    I’ve signed up to give the service a try and see what it does for my own music (something I keep meaning to publish online and get away from the older demos clouding the MySpace) and those of other bands we have involved with KilkennyMusic.com.

    In their own words about what they do…

    We’re not yet another site wanting to host your tracks alongside the trailer for High School Musical 4: I’m Pregnant. Instead, we power a site that’s truly yours, and hang out in the background handling all the technical issues you dread (and several you’ve probably never even considered). We keep your music streaming and downloading quickly and reliably, whether it’s 3am on a Sunday, or the hour your new record drops and Pitchfork gives it a scathingly positive review. We make your tracks available in every format under the sun, so the audiophilic nerderati can have their FLAC and eat mp3 v2. We adorn your songs with all the right metadata, so they sail into iTunes with artwork, album, band and track names intact. We mutter the various incantations necessary to keep your site top-ranked in Google, so when your fans search for your hits, they find your music long before they find bonkersforlyrics.com or iMyFace. We give your fans easy ways to share your music with their friends, and we give you gorgeous tools that reveal exactly how your music is spreading, so you can fan the fire.

    The signup process (for me) has been delayed as I don’t have AIFF or WAV dumps of the music. Unlike MySpace, Bebo, NumberOneMusic etc where MP3s are the in thing, Bandcamp looks for the highest quality (loss-less) audio file you’ve got available and they’ll take care of the conversions to a variety of MP3 formats (192k and above), FLAC etc. The user or fan of your music can then decided how high a quality track they want to take, what format they want it delivered in and how much they’re willing to pay for it.

    The stats behind Bandcamp let you see where the visitors are coming from, who’s linking to and using your music online, what are your most popular tracks, how have they been played (complete, partial, skipped), everything you’ve wanted to know about who’s been listening to your tunes.

    Once I sort out a WAV dump of some of the session files I have gathering dust here I’ll give it a full run through, but for now, it looks rather promising indeed.

    Update:Andy Baio (Waxy.org) has an interview with Ethan here.

  • MySpace, Record Labels Team Up For MySpace Music

    The much rumoured and often spoken about ‘MySpace Music’ service has come to light, as I read this morning that MySpace have officially announced their new ‘MySpace Music’ service, a partnership between News Corporation and “three out of the four top record labels”.

    The service is looking to become a one-stop shop for everything music; DRM free downloads and music sales, ticket sales for gigs and tours, band merchandise, ringtones – everything and anything goes.

    It is a good move for the record industry and a great play for MySpace whose existing music service is used by millions of bands worldwide (I’m even in there) as a platform for showcasing music, listing gigs and connecting with fans.

    Couple with that the ability to sell your tracks, merchandise and tickets directly through MySpace and you really have a powerful promotional tool for aspiring and established artists.

    That said, with the deal seemingly focusing around the participation of three major record labels (EMI were holding out as of Friday), I would hope the the tools established by the service would be available to the smaller bands and those unaffiliated with record labels.

    While the record labels look for ways to dig into online sales and catch up with the rest of the world, independent artists have been steaming ahead, safe in the knowledge that you don’t need a record label in order to release music. I’ve worked with enough bands over the last few years to see first hand you don’t need a record label to succeed and gone are the days of needing millions of dollars, pounds or Euro in order to record, launch and promote a single, EP or album.

    Thomas Hesse, the President of Global Digital Business at Sony BMG Music Entertainment said in Thursday’s article on CNET that they are simply “aligning our efforts to reach fans through every conceivable platform”.

    I haven’t seen any indication of what percentage of the market they’re trying to grab, likely away from Apple’s iTunes service, but here’s to hoping they don’t forget about the independent artists and make their new resources available for everyone.

  • Blogging For (Creative) Beginners

    I’ll be giving a half day beginner blogging course in Kilkenny in May under the ArtLinks banner. With details being finalised just before the weekend and rolling out with the new ArtLinks business courses being promoted for the summer, I’ll have to say I’m looking forward to giving the course and working with more creative types in Kilkenny.

    That said, the course will be promoted to creative practitioners working within Kilkenny, Carlow, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow and should attract a good blend of visual artists, musicians, writers and the likes. This will be the second course I’ve been involved in putting together for ArtLinks, having facilitated a “Getting Ahead In The Music Industry” day (my 90 minute talk focusing on effective use of the web for musicians) in Wicklow last November.

    For musicians who are new to blogging and don’t want to wait until May for a chat, have a gander of Kyra Reed’s recent blog post for TuneCore on Why Every Artist Needs A Blog.

    It is also nice to see that the Kilkenny Arts Office have also started the ball blogging about their Artist In Residence programme at the gallery at 72 John Street.

  • DRM-Free Downloads From Play.com

    A trip to Play.com before the weekend lands (if I want something for any given weekend I’ll usually order by the previous Friday) tells me they’re now doing music downloads, DRM-free music downloads at that.

    Price-wise, it’s 50c more per track for Irish users in comparison to iTunes and you can only purchase if you’ve got yourself a UK debit / credit card. Plus, the currency conversion is a little sketchy. For you regular UK readers, however, you’re looking at £0.65 or £0.70 per track.

    Quality-wise the downloads will vary at either 192k or 320k in MP3 format only and if you’ve a few pennies saved in advance of a band’s new album you can also pre-order your digital downloads to get them on the day of release. If you need to re-download the album for any reason, you can do so as well but you’ll be restricted to the amount of times you can download any given purchase.

    BBC reported earlier in the week that you’d be able to pick up albums from as little as £4.95. It will be interesting to see what, if any, dent Play’s new PlayDigital service will put into the iTunes UK store.

  • No Sir, I Won’t Be Presenting This Weekend

    Just as I opened my mouth yesterday about the proposed ‘Getting Ahead In The Music Industry‘ day to be held in Kilkenny, the plug has been pulled by ArtLinks.

    It will be going ahead in Wicklow on November 24th, some of the speakers (including myself) remaining the same but for the moment it won’t be happening in Kilkenny and should be rescheduled for a date in early 2008. So, no sir, I won’t be presenting this weekend. Pity, as we were looking forward to trying out the brand new KKM powerpoint template – or at least I was anyway.

    What I will be doing instead on Saturday (as opposed to as well on Saturday) is hosting Vesta Varro and Frantic State in Cleere’s Theatre, if you’re interested, drop down – only a fiver.

  • Getting Ahead In The Music Industry

    I thought I’d give this a mention here as I’m involved in the setting up of a course with ArtLinks, due to be offered this Saturday in Kilkenny and on November 24th in Wicklow. The idea behind the day is “getting ahead in the music industry” and features

    • Myself (in my KKM capacity)
    • Alan Dawson (Sound Engineer)
    • Ross Costigan (Communications & PR, IT Carlow)
    • Ken Allen (Faction Records, ex-Polydor)
    • Angela Dorgan (First Music Contact)
    • Keith Johnson (IMRO)
    • James Doran (Itchy Trigger Finger)
    • Davy Holland (Good Tiger / Blue Ghost)

    as speakers / facilitators on the day. The purpose is to arm musicians both young and old with the information they need to get ahead in the music industry and as such we’ll be covering topics such as

    • Internet use for bands and musicians
    • Promoting yourself and working with the press
    • Booking gigs, booking venues
    • Writing an effective press release
    • Working in a studio environment (including preparation, etiquette, budget)
    • Working in a live performance environment (ok, you’ve got the gig – so what happens now?)
    • The changing face of the Irish music industry
    • Music rights and issues
    • A few more bits as well!

    If you’re living in the ArtLinks region you can register for free as a member of ArtLinks and the entire day (including lunch) will cost you €15. If you’re outside the ArtLinks region or you’re not registered on the website, the day will cost a total of €20. The ArtLinks region covers Kilkenny, Carlow, Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford County (not Waterford City).

    Registration takes place from 9:30am and the day wraps up around 4pm. If you’re interested in attending, leave a comment or email me and I’ll get someone at ArtLinks to contact you back (pop your phone number in an email). Alternatively you can register for free on ArtLinks or get the course details here.

    *Note if you register for free on ArtLinks you still have to register your interest in attending on Saturday.

  • MySpace, One Way In – No Way Out

    MySpace is a strange one. From a musician’s point of view, if you want a profile there it’s easy out. Go to the MySpace music site, register yourself as an artist and away you go. (Note that you have to be on the MySpace music site to do it, or you’ll wind up with a personal profile instead).

    If you register a new account with MySpace, you’ve now got the choice to remove it within 14 days. I set myself up with a music profile at the weekend in an attempt to encourage myself to demo some material (only demos going to MySpace at present as I’m not getting into serious recording until time and money allows it). I set the profile up, I’ve no intention of removing it.

    Two profiles though that I want to remove include one for the Sound System Podcast and one for the One Take Sesssions, both of which are pretty redundant as there’s a main KilkennyMusic.com myspace which is handling gig bookings, comments, music submissions etc. Having the one profile to govern all KKM activites saves time, energy and draws the traffic to the one spot. So why am I pulling my hair out?

    Well, the ‘cancel account’ option available in the account settings simply doesn’t work. Two weeks now I’ve been trying to remove both accounts and no joy.

    MySpace – if you’re watching, that’ll be the accounts at myspace.com/soundsystempodcast and myspace.com/onetakesessions – support mails have been sent and to no avail. You try to cancel your account and they say no problem, email is on the way to confirm. No chance. Ok I thought, maybe a problem with the email address, I’ll change my address and get the cancellation emails sent there. No chance. You have to confirm your change of email address and surprise surprise, no confirmation email.

    But – BUT! An account I held at MySpace (registered to a forgotten email address) rose from the dead just before the weekend, MySpace reminding me to log in or they’ll delete the account as it’s been six or seven months since it was used and I’m holding up what could be a valuable username. They’re happy to cancel accounts themselves but when you ask for it yourself all you get is a headache.

    It’s like socks in a washing machine….

    Gripe aside, my new profile is there to let me demo some material before starting the recording process in 2008. The tracks are available to download for free, do with what you please (barring re-recording them or releasing them as your own, that’d just be wrong) as they’re likely to be replaced as frequently as possible with updated versions, the MySpace profile allowing me to document the progress of certain tracks in a recording environment.

    The address is http://myspace.com/kenmcguiremusic

  • Kilkenny Moosic

    My first batch of Moo cards arrived this evening in the post (along with a great free CD to review and podcast from Hybrasil) and I’m pretty impressed. The order was placed around 2am finally getting home after PodCamp and a gig on the 29th of last month. Picking up cards from Elly and Grannymar was enough to convince me to finally press the submit button on an order and I couldn’t be happier with the result.

    The quality of the card is great, durable, nice print finish, fonts all readable, packaging all tidy and there was even a few free stickers thrown in (so you can guess what’s coming next).

    I’ll certainly be ordering more of these!

  • Win Tickets For Dave Browne (Picturehouse) In Kilkenny This Weekend

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    Yep, giving away two pairs of tickets through KilkennyMusic.com to go see Dave Browne (Picturehouse) in concert this weekend. He’s playing the intimate Cleere’s Theatre in Kilkenny in advance of launching his live EP ‘Prelude’ next month and his upcoming album ‘Windows To The Soul’ in the new year.

    Tickets are €20 for the gig, I’ve got two pairs to giveaway, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post on KilkennyMusic.com (or alternatively here on kenmc.com). Winners chosen at random by lunchtime on Friday.

    Doors open 9:30pm Saturday night with stage time set for 10pm.

    Dave Browne – Everybody Wants Love
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  • KilkennyMusic.com Are Fundraising EUR1,000

    Today, KilkennyMusic.com have started a 3-week fundraising project i.e. we are trying to achieve a goal of EUR1,000 within three weeks. It might be a little more than that as we’ve set a target of US$1,500 to allow us purchase a high definition video camera (the exact figure being US$1,524 when converted).

    The Arts Office in Kilkenny have been kind to us over the past two years with grant funding to a total of €8,048 allocated to KilkennyMusic.com for the purchase of equipment for live use. This money has been put to fantastic use and has allowed us to facilitate some of Ireland’s finest bands in a variety of different music venues through Kilkenny and Carlow.

    KilkennyMusic.com     operates on a strict non-profit basis. I foot a lot of the bills and overheads where needs be and where possible; we’re not sponsored by any individual or business and over the past two years monies raised have gone right back into the bands and upgrading our services.

    Aside from myself there are three other extremely talented and committed individuals who are doing an awful lot for music in Kilkenny, now expanding into the South East (before the launch of our national identity for 2008). What we’re hoping to do is this: over the next 25 days (upper limit established by fundable.org) to raise the grand sum of US$1,500 in minimum donations of US$10. The sum raised goes towards the purchase of a Canon HV 20 DV camera. This will allow us to

    • Start broadcasting our gigs online, weekend gigs and the free One Take Sessions held every third Thursday.
    • Archiving high quality digital footage of our gigs and special performances to showcase on Kilkenny Music TV. Footage would also be used in preparation for DVD releases of gig highlights in Kilkenny on an annual basis.
    • KilkennyMusic.com will begin to regularly podcast video interviews with bands both local and national in an attempt to a) boost the profile of the bands in question and b) boost the profile of Kilkenny as a “go-to” music destination in Ireland.
    • Offer additional services to bands seeking video as a promotional tool for their music – live footage, studio footage, video postcards etc.
    • Overall offer a higher quality of service across a broader media spectrum

    This has been advertised on KilkennyMusic.com and I’ve opted to bring it here to kenmc.com as well. An amazing amount of services under the KilkennyMusic.com banner are provided for free (from gig nights to promotion, press and beyond) and we’re hoping that people will get behind the fundraising idea (people in Kilkenny and beyond, and those who follow the gigs and online developments) and support KilkennyMusic.com.

    Donations that come in at the €250 mark will have the option of company branding (logo) as “sponsor” on the close of videos published in the online realm, this option is entirely up to the individual or business donating. We have also agreed that if the donations break US$1,500 within the 25 day cap that additional monies pledged will be donated to an Irish charity, nominated by members of the KilkennyMusic.com online community and forum.

    If you know anyone who might be interested, feel free to spread the word.

    Quick link: http://url.ie/5jg

  • Electric Picnic Ticket For Sale

    Yep – selling my Electric Picnic ticket. €226.50 (ticket value and booking fee – looking for face value and the original booking fee as any electronic transaction likely to eat into it!). If you’re interested, just shout. I’ll register-mail it Tuesday morning if you’re living in Ireland for free. Payment can be made via PayPal, details available on purchase.

    With way too much stuff on this summer I’m having to make sacrifices around the place, one of them is the Picnic for this year!

  • Music To Start A Business By

    Here’s an open question, one I just put out via Twitter. Is there any album you listened to again and again while starting a business?

    I found that all my Event Ireland planning (between myself and Aidan) as well as the first month or two of business were spent with Air’s Talkie Walkie (affiliate link through CDWow.ie). Any time I settle down to do anything business-wise with Kilkenny Music I’m listening to the soundtrack to The Animatrix (not an affiliate link).

    It took us a few months to get things together for EI in 2005 and I think I can safely say that Talkie Walkie stands out as the album that got us through everything, the late nights, the early morning coffees, the first weeks in the new office, so I figure it is good music to start a business by. Sure why not! To be honest I didn’t listen to Air an awful lot before that, maybe a small bit in college but it was that summer I got completely hooked on the album.

    So, I ask, has anyone a particular album that they played to near-death while setting up a business? Find songs or albums that inspired you through paperwork, idea generation, late night battles with presentations and proposals?

  • Pandora Will Fall Silent In Europe

    I blogged on KilkennyMusic.com a while ago about the saving of internet radio, mentioning Pandora in particular as a site that I love to have open in the office. The selection of music is incredible and I’ve been introduced to so many great artists over the last year or so. Alas, in reading Techcrunch before I’ve checked my emails it looks like the curtain is falling on Pandora for users outside the US.

    With DMCA laws in place, Pandora are fine to continue in the US due to the rights deals agreed to date but as the DMCA doesn’t extend past the US, Pandora need to negotiate direct deals with the labels, publishers and acts to continue using the music – something they’ve been working on for over two years and hope in the hope of being able to resume service in the UK and Canada while gradually restoring transmission through Europe.

    Reading the comments as well, the news has hit Pandora pretty hard, this comment coming from Tom Conrad (CTO)

    I can’t even begin to say what a disappointing outcome this is for us. We’ll continue to work with music rights holders with the goal of making Pandora a truly global service.

    To those that have listened from outside the US, we thank you for your support and we’ll look forward to the day when we can restore access — we’ll take good care of your stations in the meantime.

    Going to miss my Incubus Station, Zero 7 station, Alanis Morissette, Cary Brothers station and all the other stations I’ve built up of late.