zeropaid
Consumer Focus also says that 85% can only name two, iTunes and Amazon, but UK music industry, in typical fashion, emphasizes that more than 35 exist and touts own study that found 96% awareness of iTunes and Amazon. Consumer Focus, the UK govt-backed consumer advocacy group, has long tried to illustrate the deficiency of the [...]
press release
The iStandard Producer Showcase, the premier national music producer specific event spotlighting aspiring hit-makers in front of a panel of prominent music industry tastemakers, returns to the ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO debut on April 22rd, 2010, 10PM at The Highlands (5th Floor) in the evening. iStandard is very excited to be returning its [...]
press release
Myxer, a leader in mobile entertainment, and rap mogul, Snoop Dogg, announced today a promotional partnership for the upcoming Snoop Dogg release of the CD + DVD combo More Malice - the follow-up to the highly successful original album, Malice N Wonderland. As part of the promotion, Snoop will utilize Myxer’s MobileStage product to [...]
metalinsider
Iron Man 2 was already going to be a pretty metal-friendly block buster. First, Marvel Studios announced the Iron Man 2: AC/DC soundtrack. Then it was revealed that Lamb Of God will contribute a new song to Iron Man 2: The Video Game. Now it has been confirmed who will help compose the rest of [...]
press release
A chorus of the UK’s freshest acts will hope to take the US music industry by storm when they, along with key UK music executives and companies, take part in South by South West (SXSW), one of the world’s leading music trade festivals held in Austin, Texas, from March 15 to 21.
Around 200 [...]
ezinearticles
In order to be successful, you have to own success. What does this mean? Well, when you own something, it’s your possession. It belongs to you. To some extent, it becomes part of your identity, an expression of who you are. When you own something, you are convinced beyond any doubt that it is yours. [...]
drownedinsound
As one half of the terrific two-some Blood Red Shoes, vocalist and drummer Steve Ansell has been on one hell of an eye-opening adventure. He’s played (and continues to play) in various seven-inch-spewing DIY bands - most notably the DiS-adored Cat on Form. The second BRS album Fire Like This (Recommended: 9/10 Review) has just [...]
wired
Thousands of bands and countless music freaks will descend on Austin, Texas next week for the annual SXSW music conference, representing some of the best and brightest contemporary music makers, from naive hopefuls to grizzled veterans. Even if you’re not making the trip, you can hear an astonishing selection of their music from the comfort [...]
press release
Named by The New York Times, XXL, Vibe and others as one of the hottest producers in the South it’s no surprise that this weekend Christopher “Drumma Boy” Gholson took home his 2nd consecutive Award for “Producer of the Year” at the 2010 Southern Entertainment Awards during their 7th Annual ceremony in his hometown [...]
nashvillepost
MusicRow’s notorious crystal ball is showing that a major Nashville label is planning to create a second imprint, and may announce the new venture this week.
In recent years, we have seen second imprints arrive and depart. In fact, companies such as Sony Music Nashville, UMG Nashville, Warner Music Group, Big Machine and Broken Bow currently [...]
press release
Pandora Media Inc. today announced Steve Cakebread as the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Cakebread will start on March 15th.
Mr. Cakebread stated, “Pandora is an incredibly exciting company with great momentum. The company is led by a powerful team of talented, creative and thoughtful executives who are focused on building a great company. [...]
Music Think Tank
I can not believe that March is upon us that means only one thing… It’s SXSW time again! Undoubtedly it will be just as full-on as last year with over 100,000 attendees expected to flood the venues and streets of Austin downing (free) Dixie and (free) BBQ and soaking up the music and [...]
musicxray
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Dedicated to recommending the best in new and old underrated indie and non-mainstream music of multiple genres. Particular attention is given to [...]
megaplatinum
A man was fined $12,000 for infringing the copyright of Serbian composers in the Waaga Local Court. Sasha DIMITITIJEVIC (36) was found guilty of six counts of manufacturing pirate music with an intention to sell for profit and six counts of possession of pirate music.
The Serbian-born man was stopped by Wagga highway patrol officers in [...]
cedricmuhammad
A few weeks ago, thanks to a gift from my big brother (and only a 20 minute sales pitch) I finally came out of the stone ages, better known as On Demand cable viewing, and entered Netflix nation. Now, don’t get me wrong, I appreciate what the previous era had to offer in terms of [...]
feed-xmlrss
The RIAA would like you to believe that you are participating in the Recording Industry. Be advised, you are not. You are in the Touring (Gig) Industry, make no mistake. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get as many bodies through the doors of your show as possible. Then, get them [...]
blogs.wsj
Want to tweet personal “feel better” messages to Crystal Bowersox? Too bad — your time has passed. As of roughly 6 p.m. ET on March 3, all Twitter, Facebook and MySpace followers of individual “American Idol” contestants were sent the same message: “Thanks so much for following me/joining my Fan Page! All my updates from [...]
press release
Slacker, Inc. (www.slacker.com) and The Source Magazine (www.thesource.com) today announced The Source Digital Radio, a free Hip-Hop station programmed by the tastemakers at The Source and powered by Slacker Personal Radio available on The Source’s new website. The Source Digital Radio offers a definitive Hip-Hop collection ranging from industry icons to groundbreaking newcomers and [...]
dimewars
Steve Rifkind is a music entrepreneur who is, according to XXL magazine, “responsible for breaking in some of hip-hop’s biggest artists in his 25 years in the business”.[1] Rifkind was the founder and chairman of Loud Records as well as the founder and current chairman of SRC Records[2]. He is associated with artists such as [...]
chicagotribune
In the music video for Lady Gaga’s hit single “Bad Romance,” the pop diva vamps across several nightmarish tableaux wearing a variety of barely there lingerie get-ups. The flashy clip caused a sensation when it debuted in November, and to date has racked up 85 million views on YouTube. But perhaps its most striking aspect [...]
boston
You couldn’t swing a microphone stand on Route 1 the other night without hitting a fake rock star. At Showcase Live, bands mimicking Kiss and Rush were promising to rock and roll all night for the packed house. Less than a half-mile away at Fusion 5, U2 copycats were regaling the crowd with a note-perfect [...]
theregister.co.uk
Two weeks ago a US market research company caused a panic in the music business when it reported sales of MP3s had declined. DRM has all but disappeared from digital music, while music catalogs and retailer choice have grown… and yet the volume of digital song sales fell. Ironically, it’s the major labels’ darling Spotify [...]
alexjmann
Earlier this week, Mashable published an admittedly brief social media analysis piece I wrote on Lady Gaga relating online conversation to her music’s consumption. The question I keep asking myself, and the question I continue to be asked, is why Lady Gaga?
One reason is that I’m fascinated how this ordinary looking, but otherwise talented female [...]
musicianwages
Earlier this month, I chatted via Googletalk with music producer, songwriter, remixer, and entrepreneur, Steve “Mr. Mig” Migliore, CEO of Migtight Productions. Mig has remixed, engineered, and/or produced for Akon, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Diddy, Backstreet Boys, John Legend, Lucas Prata, Taylor Swift, Usher, and Wyclef among others.
Mig is an expert with Apple’s Logic music production [...]
itbusiness.ca
If you’re the kind of person who insists on handpicking a road-trip playlist rather than just setting your music player to shuffle, you were born for radio, baby. Fortunately, you don’t have to let your daily life get in the way of your broadcasting fantasies. As long as you have a PC with a broadband [...]
Youtube
Frontman, guitarist, producer, songwriter, businessman these are some of the many hats that musician Tom DeLonge has worn throughout his dozen-plus years in the music scene, whether as the on-stage co-lead to bassist Mark Hoppus in platinum pop-punk powerhouse Blink-182 or as the sole frontman of the more experimental, alternative rock act Angels and Airwaves. [...]
nydailynews
If the walls of Casa Amadeo could talk, they wouldn’t. They’d sing. That is because Casa Amadeo is the oldest Latin music store in the South Bronx. Mike Amadeo has been running the mecca for both Latin musicians and music fans at 786Prospect Ave. since 1969. That’s when he bought it from Victoria Hernandez, sister [...]
houstonhiphop
Houston Tx own Chamillionaire looking for beats !
Whats up yall. Chamillionaire is looking for some heat! This is for all my producers out there. Im pretty sure he will clown on you if you send a demo. Check out what he had to say. “For all of the producers who have [...]
RIAA
“A little bit, a little bit, a little bit won’t hurt.”
Industry analysts, executives, critics, and academics have been debating the impact of digital piracy for a decade. During that period, the U.S. music industry fell from nearly $15 billion annually to $8.5 billion. While a quickly growing digital market helped offset the decline [...]
TMZ
Remember when Suge Knight had money? The government sure does … and they want over $6 mil from the former rap mogul. According to court docs, a tax lien originally filed in 2003 — against Suge’s 1996 tax return — was re-filed again in January to the tune of $6,578,696.31. 2Pac better put out a [...]
press release
Leonard “LB” Brooks, SVP of Urban A&R Capitol Records, will speak at Harvard Law School. Brooks will be a panelist at this year’s Youth Summit, and will discuss the importance of making good decisions to ensure success in the future as well as the different career opportunities in music business. Although the summit is [...]
kerascene.blogspot
The music industry is struggling to monetize its assets across digital, mobile, physical, and even publishing channels. But consumers are paying increasingly large amounts for entertainment and content access, at home and on-the-go. In that light, Spotify is only free in one sense; to use Spotify, broadband access is required, and even ‘on-the-house’ cafe, university, [...]
musicweek
On May 1, the major will switch to a digital e-card system for the distribution of promotional music. Sony already uses this digital system for many releases but Sony UK chairman and CEO Ged Doherty reveals that the major will be phasing out the mailing of physical stock at the same time.
“Digital promo is set [...]
digitalmusicnews
Sade is once against sitting atop the album charts for the third straight week, a success story that feels more like 2001 than 2010. In the most recent period, Soldier of Love scored sales of nearly 127,000, according to Nielsen Soundscan, bringing the three-week tally to more than 820,000. After smashing gold in [...]
press release
SAE is proud to be hosting Industry Legend Alan Shacklock for a special guest lecture open to the public. Alan Shcaklock recently completed an “Expert Interview” for the Myspace Music studio collaboration with SAE and Vodaphone, so the UK tour is a fitting top off to Mr. Shacklock’s ongoing support of audio education in [...]
cmt
Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Billy Currington and Kellie Pickler have been added to the list of performers at the 2010 CMA Music Festival in downtown Nashville. Since debuting at the festival in 1990, Jackson has made 15 appearances at the festival that was previously known as Fan Fair. He last performed during the nightly concert [...]
futureofmusic
In 2002, Future of Music Coalition conducted an online survey to gauge the level of health insurance among working musicians. Of the nearly 2,700 respondents, 44 percent of them did not have health insurance. As a response, we launched the HINT project, which has been providing musicians with personalized, artist-friendly advice about their health insurance [...]
musically
If Music 4.5 is all about the startups, then its final session should be the most sparky. Ten startups are taking the stage to pitch their services to the audience, saying what they do and why they’re The Future. Three minutes each plus short Q&As.
This post is being updated live, company by company by the [...]
hiphopdistribution
Part of my DIY experience is about just testing things out. My music could always use extra promotion and after seeing some sales stats from my old album, I started thinking.
My album sales were down but my singles sales went up. Instead of finding this discouraging and abandoning the Do It Yourself effort [...]
ArtistHouseMusic
George Howard
Former president of the storied Rykodisc label and founder of Slow River Records, George Howard is an accomplished musician, producer, executive, and educator. He currently holds posts as Assistant Professor of Management at Loyola University, Instructor and lecturer at Berklee College of Music’s BerkleeMusic program, and editor and frequent contributor to Artists House. He [...]
breakingnews.ie
Gorillaz refused to work with Katy Perry because she is dating Russell Brand. The animated group - created by Blur star Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett - were apparently approached by the ‘I Kissed A Girl’ singer who asked to collaborate with them on a song for their new album ‘Plastic Beach’.
But they turned [...]
mashable
We recently looked at an example of Twitter collaboration in the music world, but this may be the first case wherein the micro-blogging network was used for mainstream sample clearance.
Pitchfork reports on an exchange initiated by Erykah Badu on Twitter (Twitter), seeking last-minute clearance for a sample from the Wings song “Arrow Through Me.” Looking [...]
detroitnews
Two members of the Winans, Detroit’s first family of gospel music, orchestrated an $11 million Ponzi scheme that fleeced more than 180 people, investigators alleged Thursday. The Winans’ alleged scheme even spawned a sequel, state investigators say: a suite of $5 million solo scams run by an Ann Arbor securities broker ripped off in the [...]
hypebot
Music recommendation platform The Echo Nest has been awarded a $500,000 Phase IIB SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation.
Since 2005, The Echo Nest has been indexing and analyzing music fan activity across the web. The NSF-funded project, entitled “Automated Community and Sentiment Mining for Global Media Preference Understanding” will augment the company’s [...]
yahoo
Music videos are still valuable content for MTV, even though viewers’ evolving tastes have required an expansion into reality and other shows, a top executive at the cable channel said Thursday. MTV and its sibling networks, such as VH1 and CMT, still play more than 600 music video hours a week, but they increasingly play [...]
“I learned that at the end of the day the one thing that matters is the song, It’s not about a beat. We have a lot of beats and it’s easy to go in there and make a beat, especially now because of the technology."
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