No Music on Flash Drives for one hour!

Aderra shut the lights off (and all of the servers, computers and well even the fax machine...) for Earth Hour tonight.
no music was loaded onto a flash drive, USB wristband or anything else from 7 - a PM PST tonight!

Aderra in Billboard Magazine

Aderra Inc. was featured in a Billboard magazine article about live music recordings on USB flash drive wristbands. Click here to read the article

We were also mentioned in Matt Rosoff's cNet Blog, Digital Noise

The DRM walls are falling fast!

A lot of news about DRM free sales today:

Will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas opened his own digital download store with all tracks available with Digital Rights Management(DRM) (DRM is anti-copying software designed to prevent piracy but actually just limits the types of device the file can be played on.)HERE is an article about it.
In a previously announced move, Wal-Mart began selling DRM downloads through it's online store today. This will include tracks for artists on both the EMI and Universal. HERE is the full article.
The Rolling Stones are included in the tracks available on Wal-Mart's service as well as on www.7digital.com. 7Digital is selling The Stones' albums from the early 70's through their latest a Bigger Bang. The tracks are in very high resolution MP3 format, 320kbps (roughly double the quality of a standard iTunes track.

Count your Carbon!

The National Forest Foundation in the U.S. has a carbon offset program that is geared toward improving our National Forests. On their website They have a "Carbon Calculator" that helps you determine what your household's carbon footprint is. A typical American is responsible for an average of 10.73 metric tons of carbon output per year. If you fly as often as I do that can quickly double or triple. After running the calculator you can place a donation for $6 per metric ton. This money is used to plant and maintain new trees in on U.S. land. Many other carbon offset programs are sued to plant new growth in other countries. While this is still helpful (carbon dioxide has no borders) it is an added benefit to improve our own park System while lower the impact of our domestic CO2 output.

Berlin Honors Zappa

The city of Berlin has honored the late Frank Zappa with a street bearing his name. read the full story HERE.

Record Label releases music ONLY on flash drives

Superfrothco has announced that they will issue all of their upcoming releases in USB flash drive format only. Read more here: Superfrothco

New Music - Julia Albert

Julia Albert's New CD was recently released by Fresh Baked Music. The five song collection is a triumph of tasteful production and inventive songwriting. Industry vets Michael James and Urban Olsson handles mixing and production duties to bring out the best in Julia's already amazing voice. Watch for her live sets in Los Angeles: Saturday July 28th at the Hollywood Book Festival, 5PM; August 1 at the Derby in Los Feliz, 9PM and August 11 at Kulak's Woodshed 8PM (This show will also be simultaneously webcast). Her live band is Urban Olsson on Guitar and backing vocals , Allen Moreno on lead guitar and backing vocals and E.D. on percussion, electric sitar and lapsteel.