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Certain Songs #365: The Duke Spirit – “The Step and The Walk”

November 9, 2015 by Jim Connelly

41vPuUWl1GL Album: Neptune
Year: 2008

Groovy. That’s pretty much the only word I can come up with for The Duke Spirit’s “The Step and The Walk,” the lead single from their debut album Neptune.

I don’t know jack squat about The Duke Spirit. I don’t really know who is in the band, or how they came across my radar. I just know that “The Step and The Walk” is groovy.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Neptune, the Duke Spirit, The Step and The Walk

Is Playing Music on the Radio A Form of Piracy?

June 24, 2008 by Jim Connelly

Does playing someone’s music on the radio hurt them or help them? And is it a “form of piracy”?

I’m a lifelong radio listener. Not like I once was, of course, but I still listen, especially during my morning commute. A couple of weeks ago I happened to hear “The Step and The Walk” by The Duke Spirit on Indie 103.1, and fell instantly in love with it. So, is that a good thing or bad thing for The Duke Spirit?

A logical person would say that it’s a good thing for the artist. Right? I’d never heard of them, and now I have.

Of course, as we’ve seen many times before, the Recording Industry is not made up of logical persons. As a matter of fact, not only do they see no benefit in their artists being played on the radio, they want compensation.

Otherwise, “it’s a form of piracy,” and any argument that playing music is a form of promotion is a “red herring.”

Those aren’t my words, but rather the words of a spokesperson for a recording industry umbrella group with the hilarious name of musicFIRST.

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Filed Under: Mediacratic, Medialoper, Music, Piracy, Podcasts, Radio Tagged With: Indie 103.1, musicFirst, NAB, Piracy, the Duke Spirit

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