SoundExchange Holding Royalties For Hard To Find Artists…Like Tone-Loc and T. Bone Burnett
And those artists are just in the "T’s"…
SoundExchange collects royalties from performances in digital media like online and satellite radio stations. Kind of a BMI or ASCAP for digital media. For months they been warning that artist that did not sign up by December 15th would loose any royalties due them from Feb 1996 to March 31, 2000. But until recently they’ve refused to provide a public list of artists owed the money claiming 
they did not want middle men coming in to grab a percentage of the artist royalties.
But a quick look at the list makes one question just how hard SoundExchange even tried to find these artists or who is heading the search. In addition to platinum selling artists like Tone Loc and recent Grammy winner T-Bone Burnett a quick glance at the list found several hundred recognizable 
names that could be tracked via various labels, agents, managers and publishers if anyone had bothered to try.
Jumping around the alphabet here are a few names that we found SoundExchange claims they could not find:
- A Flock Of Seagulls
- Ace Frehley
- Andy Gibb (OK he’s dead but…)
- The Archies
- Blue Cheer
- Booker T & The MG’s
- Dinosaur JR
- Dishwala
- Jimmy Vivino and The Rekooperator (He’s on TV every night in the Conan band)
- Joe Henry (another recent Grammy nominee)
- Molly Hatchet
- Mountain
- Rossington Collins
- Susan Tedeschi (a Grammy winner)
i have a contact that can probably alert the ‘amazing rhythym aces’ (pweination). i passed this info on to my contact.
sent a message to the band candiria. via their website (they are a great metal band).
sent a message to dana dane, who currently hosts sirius 43 (backspin).
used the ‘ask al’ section of weirdal.com to mention the frankie yankovich name on the list.
my bass player will contact Ra. we’ve opened for them twice.
and by the way, soundexchange Dimebag Darrell is dead. try his family. same goes for Jeff Buckley, Ol Dirty Bastard and Marilyn Monroe.
and Great White is probably not answering any calls or letters these days….