Tag archive: Gabriel

It might be the first YouTube baby. Engineer Marc Stephens from Cornwall, England, delivered the baby boy his wife has been carrying after she went heavily into labor, and before an ambulance could arrive to take her to hospital. According to the mother, Jo Stephens, the couple had planned a home birth for their fourth child, but not quite so dramatically. "I woke up and realized I was having contractions every five minutes,"… Read More

The former Genesis frontman and head of Real World has had his servers stolen from his ISP, leaving his organization offline for the moment. For many, Peter Gabriel is probably best known as the original frontman for Genesis, then as a solo recording star. But he’s enjoyed another, fruitful career as the man behind world music pioneer Real World Records.  That company, along with sister organization WOMAD, which stages… Read More

Rock star Peter Gabriel has launched a new music download service that will offer free music – but it comes with a price: It comes with ads.   The new service, dubbed We7 is meant to benefit both fans and musicians. Listeners won’t have to pay for their music, and musicians will receive income from the adrevenue. We7 uses MediaGraft technology, which embeds ads into both music and video downloads.   As the download business… Read More

An alliance of online music broadcasters sued the recording industry in federal court Wednesday, alleging major record labels have unlawfully inflated webcasting royalty rates to keep independentoperators out of the market. Webcaster Alliance, an organization claiming some 400 members, filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming the major labels and the Recording Industry Association of America have… Read More