Just one of those neat things… You know how when you hear a song you love so often that it just resonates with you, and it doesn’t surprise you when it pops up other places?
I’m working on an article in the office, and I can hear Lori watching Men in Trees from the living room. [...]
Most excellent Spitzer-related media gaffe: CNN
RIAA Wants Songwriter Royalty Lowered – Slashdot
AMERICAN IDOL: Top 12
Keepm
Save You From Yourself now at iTunes
Moving in the right direction – Winnipeg Sun
What Happened to the Fortune Michael Jackson Made? – New York Times Blogs
Guy Hands feels the strain of EMI takeover – Telegraph.co.uk
iBank 3 lands with Direct Downloads, iPhone sync, more
‘Idol’ Tracker: Facing the judges’ Do’s and Don’ts
Online Music Fan Community Powerpoint
CD to digital: Painful for music industry
A Downtown Impresario’s New Uptown Canvas – New York [...]
oh, lazyweb, why hasn’t a clever musician recorded neat iPhone ringtones and posted them to iTunes through CDBaby or TuneCore or something? #
adding twitter daily digest posts to spinme.com, so it looks like I’m slacking off there a little bit less. #
We’ve all watched the sad death spiral of Britain’s Sanctuary Records over the past few years, but I didn’t think it would end up like this:
Universal Music Group purchased the company for about forty U.S. cents per share.
On one hand, as it evolved through the late 1990’s, Sanctuary was a great model for the kind [...]
It’s been covered in a few tech journals today, but the news that Gracenote will soon distribute song lyrics online is great news for songwriters and for working musicians alike.
Although the web seems like a perfect place for song lyrics, copyright and trade association rules about distributing sheet music has made it pretty hard to [...]
By Ken Levine: American Idol this week
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Hawaii Business Magazine Profiles iTunes Artist
“The music business is costly. To make the master copy of a CD usually runs around $30000.”
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PoughkeepsieJournal.com – Film takes hard look at music business
Before the Music Dies screens in Woodstock this week.
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Ian MacKaye fights all-ages show shutdown in [...]
Via Bob, I learned about this interesting attempt to game the downloadable singles chart, the way that authors often do at Amazon.com. By coordinating a whole lot of purchases through iTunes, the organizers hope to land a podsafe single by a band that has been dumped from two major label contracts onto the charts.
Here’s what [...]
Independent media distributor The Orchard has teamed up with social music service Last.fm to make its catalog of over one million tracks available to the service’s users. If you haven’t used Last.fm, you should definitely check it out. While it’s not for everyone, it’s a neat tool that suggests songs you might like based on [...]
