Monday’s Music Brief

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• ESSAY & REVIEW: On Our Few Moments In The Tower Of Song. Add your thoughts.
  
• Napster: $5 Monthly Streaming With 5 Downloads
• Shabs Jobanputra Promoted to Pres. Virgin UK
• Spotify Ramps Up Offering
• Music ID Service Shazam Sued
• Usenet Site Sues Dutch RIAA
• The Pirate's Dilemma Revisited
• REWIND: The Music Industry's Week In Review

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• Citing $130,000 in pending legal bills, the attorney in the pending Jammie Thomas-Rasset trial with the RIAA has asked to withdraw. (ars)
• Proving again the potential of the crowd, a new Facebook game aids development of new "Google for music" search engine. (ZDnet)
• The world's coolest music label – Sublime Frequencies.  (Guardian UK)
• MySpace Music Presents the Relapse Release Event With Eminem in His Hometown of Detroit on May 19th (press release)
• mSpot Partners with CBS RADIO and Last.fm to Offer Over 100 Live
  Local Stations and Customized Mobile Radio to AT&T Wireless
  Customers (press release)
• Music Ally hosted a fun and interesting debate on the relevancy of record labels. Here's the blow by blow
• EMI Music's Virgin label has agreed a worldwide partnership with deadmau5, the award-winning producer and electronic artist.
• From one of my favorite new music industry thinkers, Bruce Warila, comes "Don’t go over the self-promotion cliff; crush your local radio station instead." on the great Music Think Tank blog which he curates.