ers lot of stuff on the internet, live shows, music blogs, this hne an impediment to you commercially. it seems the opposite. it is hard to say, i guess. certainlier on it was better for us to have people hear our music. that is --thnk w took our attitude started becoming a viable way for people to hear. i a tats good, that is the whole point. we want to play our music. it is what we to spend energy and letting people interact. i don't know what things are like now. eance keeps changing. the industry has definitely -- you, i shrunk. it shrunk quite a bit. i still prefer to have people listening to our muscha not learning. i think it is obvious there are a lot of people doing that. >> in the newspaper business, if theygiw something, they say that is the reason that fwhoowe're in decline. in the film business they won't let us consume it without paying for it. in your corner of the music bune, i'm impressed that this you don't feel has been an impediment. >> i mean,imil i think that has been easier for us, because the business model for us has beenenerrond touring, playing shows and doi

♪ ♪ >> the town of 40,000 right on the mississippi river is home to horse shack studios and the music blogy trotter. bands flock to this small studio because this is the new hot place to get noticed. as many as seven bands a week pass through. offering their music to shawn moler. no contracts are signed. bands don't even get to choose their own artwork. the music is posted on-line in raw form for anyone to download. now the intention of day trotter is to find new music. though lately big names have tried their best to get through the door. shawn moler grew up on farm, says he could watch the tour busses belonging to rock and roll busses pass his town by on interstate 80. he is joined by kate mets of wired, mccall of "fortune." you're now so successful, aren't you, is that the danger that somebody else needs to make another day trotter for the bands that don't get into day trotter. >> well, we don't want anybody to do that. >> a huge film festival. an alternative to. at some point sundance got so big that somebody said we need a sundance for sundance. >> right. >> do they need a day trotter

now see using music blogs with american domains over copyright claims so the site in question is r. and b. exclusive dot com it's a dot com domain but it's based in the u.k. now i followed the link to the story about it being seized and here is the image of what i was presented with soak up which is the serious organized crime agency has taken control of this domain if you have downloaded music using this website you may have committed a criminal offense which carries a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment and an unlimited fine under u.k. law this is your ip address and then goes on to say the above information can be used to identify you and your location soca has the capability to monitor and investigate you and can inform your internet service provider of these infringements put that together with the google story and the ability to farm all of the information images and photos of the next time it'll be a picture of some greasy grease ball from washington with your grandmother and a gun to her head and say stop or blow your grandma's head off. and look at the also this is th

>> sreenivasan: find more of spencer's reporting on music therapy on the rundown blog. page, the political checklist returns as political editor christina bellantoni asks gwen and judy what they are watching for in tomorrow's arizona and michigan primaries. and on our world page, two more presidential elections, our team in russia has more on vladimir putin's try for a third term. plus we have an update from senegal, which has been rocked by weeks of anti-incumbent protests. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. gwen? >> ifill: and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday, we'll look at the pivot point primaries in arizona and michigan. i'm gwen ifill. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. an

music, mr. romney is better than he sounds." on the conservative blog red state, eric erickson wrote, i'm not sure i'll waste my time defending romney in a general election. sure, i'll vote for him, but i think i'll focus on house and senate races so when the buyer's remorse sets in on those who did screwed down the ballot. this doesn't surprise me from him. he's pretty far over. >> here's the thinking among those people. they are thinking, we don't love mitt romney. okay. he's a massachusetts moderate. he's trying to make himself a conservative. but if we're going to take him, let's at least have a good politician. let's have a guy who is good at being a politician. if he's not with him idealogically, what grounds are the conservatives going to september him? that's what jonah goldberg and the others are saying. laur inggram, she said is he hopeless? she said, no, he's not hopeless, but he's not there yet. >> look at the rap sheet. i should tell my story. i'm also unemployed. we could raise taxes on people. corporations are people, my friend. >> my fri

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music >> all right. so that's a little taste for you right there. joining me this morning is christopher barly, ed or the of the "wall street journal" speak easy blog.t's good to have you both here because -- both here to talk about this this morning. because as we were paying attention to this yesterday, got a lot of people talking in the newsroom. erin, i want you to specifically listen to the lyrics of rihanna's song "birthday cake." some are so explicit we're not going to be able to tell everybody what they are, but here are some of the lines. been a long time, i've been missing your body. and then it goes on from there to get a little racier, a little dirtier. what kind of message is this sending to female fans out there about this collaboration? >> well, sure, i think the issue is not that rihanna is sending a message to the women of this country. it's the fact that rihanna is clearly one of the women of this country. 1 in 3 women in this country will experience intimate partner violence at some point in their lives and about half of them will cycle between going back periodically. and so there's really cause for concern here. but certainly th

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