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LeRoi Moore Dies at 46

Jamie Kohns on August 19th, 2008

LeRoi Moore, one of the founding members of the Dave Matthews Band, died earlier today in Los Angeles from complications due to an ATV accident he was in in June of this year. The saxaphonist was 46 years old, and had been playing with the band since its inception in 1991. He was born in Nurham, North Carolina and grew up on the same street as fellow band member Carter Beauford in Charlotsville, Virginia.

The band is still scheduled to play their sheduled show in Los Angeles tonight.

LeRoi played just about every kind of sax imaginable, as well as other woodwind instruments with the Dave Matthews Band, and his horn work is integral to the signature sound of the band.

LeRoi Moore 1961-2008

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Muxtape Site Down

Jamie Kohns on August 19th, 2008

Popular mixtape-making website Muxtape is down today, saying only:

“Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.”

The muxtape blog goes on a little to say that “No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned.”

A cnet article speculates that the RIAA may be after royalties for streaming media for the thousnads of music files that stream from the service every day. Pitchfork’s article even suggest it could be a publicity stunt. The last time I checked out the service, I noticed it used a simple mp3-streaming mechanism for media delivery that left copies of everything you played in your browser’s cache (a trick I really love).

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