Thursday’s Music Brief: Free Music, MySpace Local, SellABand, Choruss & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES:
FREE WEEK CONTINUES
- "Free" Thinker: Music Xray's Bruce Warila
- "Free" Thinker – The Orchard's Greg Scholl
- Tommorow: A Free Suburban Home Records download sampler to celebrate Hypebot's Free Music Week and Virgil Dickerson's new indie column
- Buzz Blog Network Cuts 20% Of Staff
- MySpace Goes Local
- RockDex: How Much Does Your Band Rock?
- New Column: You Can Always Go Back to School
- Moonalice To Tweet Each Track Of Live Set
- Amazon MP3 Expands Into Germany
MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:
- Bands Take Pay What You Want To Merch… And It Works Great. (Techdirt)
SellaBand, one of the online services that enables music fans to invest in up-and-coming artists, will sell its artists on CreateSpace, an Amazon company via a dedicated SellaBand store. (press release) The company must not expect big sales, given that CreateSpace’s Disc on Demand service where discs are manufactured only after a customer places an order.- Choruss: The Next Phase in Digital Music or a Public Bailout? How Choruss will hurt independent music and line major label pockets. (Tiny Mix Tapes)
- MySpace Music: What Went Wrong, and What's Being Done About It. (Epicenter)
- US Rep. Boucher Says Radio, Labels Should Negotiate Royalties (FMQB)
- Gospel Music Channel Nears 45 Million Subscribers (press release)
- Video: The Daily Swarm's Must Watch Videos of the week.
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