Email Author David Downs

Awards

• 2008 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published June 27, 2007

  "The Day the Music Dies"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 30, 2005

  "Roboscalper"

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2007 Stories by David Downs

• Ticketmaster Chases Roboscalpers to SF

  published November 21, 2007

  For years, Ticketmaster has known about a new breed of online ticket scalpers armed with automated ticket-buying programs. These programs let... More >>

• Sean Penn Leads Matt Gonzalez Into the Wild

  published October 31, 2007

  This week's Feature is a comic. Click here to view. More >>

• Radiohead's In Rainbows Leads to Digital Pot of Gold

  published October 10, 2007

  San Francisco producers, label heads, and distributors say the biggest music story of the year isn't taking place onstage at the Fillmore or in... More >>

• Love Like Fire

  published October 3, 2007

  Sounding like equal parts Muse and the Cure, Love Like Fire represents San Francisco's pop-obsessed shoegazer aesthetic. The guitar-heavy band... More >>

• The Day the Music Dies

  published June 27, 2007

  Elise Nordling answers the door to SomaFM's warehouse headquarters in the Mission District wearing blue hair, a studded belt, blue jeans,... More >>

• Band Width

  published June 27, 2007

  Local musicians air their views on the threat to Net radio Ted Nesseth The Heavenly States (Oakland rock quartet since... More >>

• Unpaid in Full

  published June 27, 2007

  The IRS of digital performance royalties, SoundExchange, claims it can't find thousands of often-popular artists to pay them their money. The... More >>

• Dark Payola Emerges

  published June 27, 2007

  Economics over artistic merit is a recipe for payola — which is where labels pay radio stations to spin their music. It's illegal. But a new... More >>