WASHINGTON, DC — Future of Music Coalition will assemble a diverse group of acclaimed activist musicians for meetings in New Orleans from November 3-6, 2006. Steve Earle, Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Allison Moorer, Tom Morello (Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine), Boots Riley (the Coup), Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney) will attend the gathering and perform in a benefit concert at Tipitina’s on Monday, November 6th. The meetings are made possible by a generous grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation. read more

Five prominent organizations representing recording artists and musicians filed reply comments [PDF] at the Federal Communications Commission in the proceeding examining the upcoming transition from analog to digital audio broadcasting (DAB) (MM Docket 99-325). In their joint filing, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the Future of Music Coalition (FMC), The Recording Academy®, and the Recording Artists’ Coalition (RAC) expressed broad support for and excitement about the opportunities that digital audio broadcasting presents to citizens and recording artists. read more