- Don't miss our exclusive interview with Gary Chen the CEO of Chinese download leader Top100.cn who recently cut a landmark deal with digital distributor The Orchard to bring their catalgue to this huge energing market. (Part l & and just posted Part II)
- Bob Dylan tried to extend his brand to Broadway, but nobody much likes the result. (Reuters)
- The Future Of Music Coalition and American Federation Of Musicians filed joint comments with the FCC arguing that "increasing the local ownership cap would have no demonstrable benefit for programming variety and would instead cause harm to programming variety by endangering the smaller station groups that currently supply most of the diversity that exists..." (Executive summary, PDF of full text)
- YouTube content shrinks again as it pulls Comedy Central clips. (Slashdot) Three of the four major label groups have made deals with YouTube that include minority shares in the company. EMI remains the single major holdout.
- The hugely popular iTunes application has lots of features including internet radio and and watching YouTube that Apple doesn't really bother to tell you about. (MacNewsWorld)
WORTHY CLICK - Real progressive rock was never a hugely popular genre, but in what is a perfect example of the "long tail" enabled by the internet, progressive rock lives on at ProRock Records - a mini-conglomerate that includes a label, internet station, chat rooms, an online store, physical CD distributor and more. (click) We doubt any of these could survive as stand-alone businesses in a "physical only" world.
