Thursday’s Music Brief: Touch & Go, Juno Download, Spotify & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

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  Indie Touch & Go Slashes Staff, Ends Distribution
• Indie Band Responds To $1 Promo Controversy
• Slicethepie Lands $1.4M In New Funding
• The Digital Natives: Pirates At Bay (Part Two)
• The GPS Revolution and the Digital Music Fan
• This Is What A Music Pirate Looks Like
• New International Piracy Watch List
• Daily D.I.Y. –Have Your Promotional Toolkit Ready

MORE NEWS:

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  Indie band The Presidents of the United States of America have released a $3 iPhone app that contains all of their albums plus rare and unreleased music and images. (TechDirt)
• Are you SXSW bound? The couch-surfing social network for touring bands Better Than The Van  wants to help bands touring down to Austin find a place to crash.
• Dance music download store Juno Download has launched a new series of free podcasts featuring key dance labels. Each episode of the Juno Label Podcast will present an exclusive DJ mix from a leading international label starting this month with a set from Germany’s Great Stuff.
• The Telegraph's Shane Rishmond interviews Daniel Ek, the founder and CEO of the very hot online music service Spotify. (Part One & Two)
• Media recommendation service TheFilter got more funding from musician Peter Gabriel. (paidContent)
• BSkyB plans iTunes rival. (NetworkWorld)
• No one likes web ads. What about web ads that look like magazine ads? (MediaMemo)