Hello Bass Heads!
Here is the latest update on our ongoing creative process at the Bassnectar Labs. We are constantly formulating new ways to leverage the momentum of this music and culture, and to use that force to give back to the community.
Some of you have heard about our Dollar per Bass Head concept, and here is a bit more about it:
For every person who attends a Bassnectar event or show, we donate 1 dollar to nonprofit organizations in an effort to encourage giving, and to promote a strong, informed, empowered community. This concept is meaningful to us because it gives us an opportunity to come together and truly make a positive difference in the world. Here is how it works:
1. We collect and donate one dollar for every ticket sold, and sent it to Air Traffic Control (bold, link to website), a non profit organization that helps artists optimize their opportunities for social contribution.
2. Every time the Bass Bank reaches $50,000 we will present 3 different organizations that are doing amazing things to empower education, health, or community. On bassnectar.net you can learn about the organizations, what they do and how, and see how you can get involved if you are interested. This is not only a great way to give back, but it is also an awesome way to meet new friends, and to explore life OUTSIDE of the party.
3. We will hold a vote at bassnectar.net to place the organizations in order of preference.
4. The organization with the most votes will receive $25,000, the runner up will receive $15,000 and the third finalist will receive $10,000.
5. You can track the activity of each organization on bassnectar.net, stay involved throughout the year on our community comments board, and help us choose other candidates for upcoming rounds.
We are still developing how to make this project work best, so if you have any ideas, please send them over!
Thank you so much!
L
April, 2011
FALL TOUR’S NET NEUTRALITY CONTRIBUTION
Greetings Bass Heads!
With your help in purchasing tickets for this tour, Bassnectar Labs is excited to announce that we will be contributing a dollar of every US Fall Tour ticket sale to a worthy cause.
THE ISSUE:
With grand hopes of starting a nonprofit of our own brewing, The Labs decided that this tour should focus on one of the most pressing issues of our time- Net Neutrality.
For a quick primer on what Net Neutrality is, take a listen to a rantapella that Lorin created with Ill Gates to raise awareness about the issue:
Now, more on the organizations:
Public Knowledge
The most pressing front of Net Neutrality is legislative. The government has the ability to protect the internet from the capricious whims of companies like Google, Verizon, and Comcast that would like to create 2 internets: one where everyone has to pay for service- from the content creators to the content viewers, and another that is free, with no investors because a free service is not as impactful on their bottom line.
Think about the difference between HBO and public access television.
Public Knowledge is an organization at the forefront of Media rights legislation, watching bills as they pass through the government and keeping both citizens and officials appraised of the potential impacts of legislation on media freedom. When there is legislation or a policy introduced concerning Net Neutrality, Public Knowledge is on the forefront, analyzing and taking a stand for the rights of US Citizens to a free media and an open internet.
www.publicknowledge.org
Free Press
If you’re familiar with the issue of Net Neutrality, you’ve heard of savetheinternet.com, the effort at the forefront of the fight to keep the internet an equal playing field:
Freepress.net is the organization behind Savetheinternet.com, and is the largest media reform advocacy group in the United States.
Through education, organizing, and advocacy, they promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism, and universal access to communications.
www.freepress.net
Future Of Music Coalition
In collaboration with Free Press, the Future of Music Coalition’s Rock The Net Campaign brings the necessity of a free internet home to the concertgoer and the musician.
In order for music culture to continue to flourish with the diversity it shows today, an internet where a new artist can reach out to the same audience as an artist on a big label is essential. The internet is the primary medium by which artists expand beyond the range of their sound systems, creating international cultures that connect people to uplift an artist, a sound, and a genre.
Think about all of the music you’ve found through the internet.
Net neutrality made it happen.
www.futureofmusic.org
