Favorite Organizations

In a world where creativity is supposedly valued yet rarely nurtured, computers and cell phones replace person-to-person contact and real communities, and personal vision is quickly becoming a prime-time TV line-up, a not-for-profit group is trying to give area youth a new direction, purpose, and a place to belong.

Five major record labels have a monopoly that's bad for musicians and music culture, but now we have an opportunity to change that. We can use tools like filesharing to strengthen independent labels and end the major label monopoly. How do musicians get paid for downloads? Simple: collective licensing lets people download unlimited music for a flat monthly fee ($5-$10) and the money goes to musicians and labels according to popularity. This solution preserves the cultural benefits of p2p, gets musicians way more money, and levels the playing field. Our plan is to explain how the majors really work, develop software to make filesharing stronger, rally public support for a legal p2p compensation system, and connect independent music scenes with the free culture movement.

Flywheel is a non-profit, volunteer-run community arts space open to all

Skot's top 3 fav bands

Mark Everett is an awesome musician that has had a very interesting life. Also, I love his tasteful use of swear words

brilliant lo-fi rock with classic synthesizer arpeggios and strings as well as lyrics that somehow remind me of the book "Brave New World"

Able to simulate and mock any style of music while never stopping their endeavor into new original music and lyrics, they will never stop amazing me

Fav Local Bands

ice block-core from Kent Randell

Awesome people to tour with, play accordion with, and be in DC-FIY with

Jesse, Evan, and Justin = even more awesome ppl to tour with (from the U.P., Michigan)

Adam Kozack is one classy motherfucker

Tony, Matt, and Jakewith play some tunes

Dave is a cool guy from boston

Thom, Perkins, Widing, and Billy rock out with their cocks out

My old ska/punk band in high school, it was good times

The Good Stuff

Three Brain is some awesome crazy guy we found on the internet years ago. oh man, soooo funny