Dear Pandora fans -

We urgently need your help! We need you to make a phone call to support internet radio.

After a yearlong negotiation, Pandora, SoundExchange and the RIAA are finally optimistic about reaching an agreement on royalties that would save Pandora and internet radio. But just as we've gotten close, large traditional broadcast radio companies have launched a lobbying campaign to sabotage our progress.

Yesterday, Congressman Jay Inslee, and several co-sponsors, introduced legislation to give us the extra time we need but the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), which represents radio broadcasters such as Clear Channel, has begun intensively pressuring lawmakers to kill the bill. We have just a day or two to keep this from collapsing.

This is a blatant attempt by large radio companies to suffocate the webcasting industry that is just beginning to offer an alternative to their monopoly of the airwaves.

Please call your Congressperson right now.

Call 202-225-3121 and ask for your representative.

Ask them to support H.R. 7084, the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008. Congress is currently working extended hours, so even calls this evening and over the weekend should get answered.


Thanks so much for your continued support!

Tim, and the whole Pandora staff

Tags: music, politics

Supporting my theory that people who like purple (especially those who wear it, and especially exclusively) are weird or crazy.

Also, Re: ASTROTRAIN.

"It’s actually the least serious song I’ve every written. It’s actually one of the very few songs that was written for a girl, which was my girlfriend at the time. When I first moved to New York in ’98 I had this, kind of obsessive, crazy psychic gypsy lady who was living right next to us, in our building. And you know how it is some people have this fixation with a certain colour, and purple is one of those colours, and that is the whole archetype of these ladies, she was wearing everything: shoes, stockings, handkerchief, skirt, coat, everything, purple shades she was crazy. And one of my girlfriends, she was getting crazy, getting out of hand I was saying ‘you might as well start wearing purple now, because that’s exactly what’s gonna happen to you’. One day I just sat down with a guitar and basically just set it down with just an A minor chord and a song rolled out of it. I love it when that happens. Some songs just roll out.."

Tags: funny, music, youtube

http://www.pandora.com/people/ihavedna

Tags: music