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Derek Sivers: Barking

CD Baby founder Derek Sivers has devoted his own chapter two to projects that benefit the indie music community.  In this essay "Barking", Sivers shares some a bit of advice most of us involved in marketing music (and ourselves) need to pay attention to:

In New York City last week, across from the library, there was a man pacing on the sidewalk, barking something hysterically at the top of his lungs. Everyone was avoiding him, even crossing the street to avoid getting anywhere near him.

It wasn’t until I listened closer I realized he was working for a local business, yelling, “20% coupons for window shades! 20% off! Window shades! Get your coupons here!”

Painfully ineffective.

Today I’m in Union Square on the 20th floor. In the big white noise of the city, only one voice sticks out. For the last 3 days, someone has been yelling in the park for hours a day, barking the same high constant monotone pitch (an F that falls to a D at the end of each sentence.)

Wednesday's Music Brief: Free "Free", Martin Atkins, Slump Continues, iLike & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• Read Chris Anderson's New Book "Free" For Free
• The End Of The Era Of Celebrity?
• Internet Holds Up Under Jackson Onslaught
• Martin Atkins Wants To Teach You To Thrive In The New Music Industry
• Follow Indie Artist X Project Via Twitter
• c/o pop Convention Gathers Momentum
• Pandora, Other Webcasters Reach Royalty Deal

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• Music Business Can't Shake Slump: Album sales for the first half of 2009 are down 15% from the same period in 2008. (The Wrap)
• UK Govt Says Needs More Time to Reduce P2P (ZeroPaid)
• SoundExchange shares details of the new webcaster royalty agreement. (SoundExchange)
• iLike has a 24 hour advance exclusive of The Dead Walkers. Jack White joined forces with Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs) and Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) to form the new band. Listen here.
• How A Buzz Band Became A Buzz Band: A Rural Alberta Advantage Case Study (Hit Singularity)
• Twitter as music marketing tool. (cNet)
• From Nashville's recent Leadership Music Digital Summit: The music industry's prime mission is to service the consumer - and, while they're at it, to think of that person primarily as a fan rather than, at least initially, a targeted potential buyer. As stated by Duncan Freeman, President, Bandmetrics, at 'Drastic Measures: New Metrics in the Music Business,' "It's not mainly about sales anymore. Sales are a byproduct of that meaningful relationship" between artists and fans."  (Cybergrass)

Monday's Music Brief: Trendrr Pro, MJ Fever, Apple Sued, Tunecore, Canada & More

Friday is a holiday in the US, but I'll be covering the news as it breaks all week and adding the usual commentary.  And on Thursday we'll continue a Hypebot holiday tradition that gives readers a chance to introduce themselves and network. So stay tuned and inward to a great week! Musexpo begins inthe UK...- Bruce Houghton

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• Overloaded With Data? Trendrr Launches Pro
• Will The Browser & Mobile Apps Replace The iPod?
• The Michael Jackson Effect: An Unprecedented Spike In Sales
• Derek Sivers: "Make Your Own Success First"
• Video: A Quick Look At New Zune HD
• REWIND: New Music Industry's Week In Review

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• Apple sued over iTunes gift cards (cNet)
• Google mistakes Michael Jackson’s death for an “automated attack”. (Media Memo)
• Napster 10 Years Of Turmoil: "1999 saw the debut of Napster...it started a storm of change in the music industry and here Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, reflects on what has happened in the last 10 years." (BBC)
• Tunecore has added Limewire to the list of online retailers it supplies. (Tunecore)
• Live Nation has extended its No Service Fee Wednesdays again by dropping the service fee on all 4-Packs and 6-Packs this Wednesday, July 1 0nly at LiveNation.com. (press release)
• Canadian Liberal Party wants to ‘combat’ piracy and ratify the WIPO. (ZeroPaid)
• Pirate parties parade through Prague, Paris (ars)
• VIZIO Unveils Rhapsody Digital Music Service for VIZIO Internet Apps

Video: Michael Jackson, James Brown and Prince on stage together:

Friday: TuneCore, CD Baby, Hulu, Green Day, UK Visas, YouTube, Project Playlist & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• Because I know you don't feel like really working today: Video Of Top On Stage Assaults Of All Time
• Time Magazine Names 10 Top Tech Failures And Music Grabs 3 Of Them
• TuneCore Adds Amazon Tio DIY Toolbox
• CD Baby To Add Single Song Downloads
• Brian Eno's Recipe For New Music Business Success
• ReverbNation To Indie Artists: We'll Pay You To Give Away Your Music
• Another Time Waster: Anyone Can Create "Music" With Musicshake

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• Jay-Z confirms that he has split with Def Jam earlier than previously announced.(RapRadar)
• Hulu.com will be exclusively broadcasting a free Dave Mathews Band concert live. (ars) You'll see much more paid and free concert streaming as artists seek to broaden the footprint and niche TV on the net continues to replace the need for a cable bill.
• Web Reaction: SF 2009 MusicTech Summit (Billboard.biz)
• Green Day is lashing out at WalMart's decision not to carry its #1 selling album. (AP)
• Are UK visa practices hurting imported music? At least one Canadian artist says yes. (Telegraph UK)
• 20 hours of video are being uploaded to YouTube every minute. (YouTube) How do you make your video stabn out?
• Playlist CFO Mike Sheridan Out
• A look at the iTunes Pass program. (Guardian UK)

Bandzoogle's D.I.Y. Artists Hit $1 Million In Commission Free Sales

Bandzoogle announced this week that they have facilitated more than $1 million in commission free sales for their community of do it yourself artists. Designed first as a web site building tool for musicians,  Bandzoogle.com is becoming a hub for a d.i.y music marketing and commerce.

The storefront is one many features that can be added to websites on Bandzoogle. Using PayPal for transactions, musicians can accept credit cards and sell both physical merchandise and digital downloads direct to fans. Mailing list software, music players and a calendar are a few of the other features included in the integrated platform that empowers users with no web skills to create robust custom music websites.

“The fact that Bandzoogle lets artists keep 100 percent of their sales sets us apart from the vast majority of e-commerce solutions for musicians,” says Chris Vinson, president of Bandzoogle. “And our team is proud to have helped our members reach this million-dollar milestone,” he says. “It demonstrates how our tools are helping musicians succeed on the web.”

Daily DIY: Improving Your Live Show

In this last in the series of excerpts from his new book called “How To Make Your Band Sound Great,” producer and author Bobby Owsinski shares his view of why some shows are amateur while others leave the crowd begging for more.

Your Show - It’s More Than A Collection Of Songs
It’s not enough to be a good band anymore, you’ve got to have your show down too.  Here are a number of items that you must be aware of in order to make your show as good as it can be.  It doesn’t mater what kind of band you are and what kind of music you play, these items are all generic and if my advice is followed, will guarantee that you’re better received by your audience.

Daily DIY: Your Live Mix

In this excerpt from his new book called “How To Make Your Band Sound Great,” producer and author Bobby Owsinski illustrates the reason why most live mixes are bad, and how yours can be great.

 The Keys To A Great Live Mix

Regardless of whether you own your own PA system (PA stands for “public address” if you didn’t already know) or rely on one that you find at the venues that you gig at, having some basic idea of the philosophy and workings of a modern sound system will help you get the most out of one.  A little knowledge will also take away some of the misconceptions that today’s musicians have, and that knowledge will help you sound a lot better as a result.

Daily DIY: Three P's - Keys To Great Vocals

In this excerpt from his new book called “How To Make Your Band Sound Great,” producer and author Bobby Owsinski spotlights the simple secrets to a great vocal performance.

The Three P’s – The Keys To A Great Vocal
In the studio, the three P’s, pitch, pocket and passion, are what a producer lives by.  You’ve got to have all three to have a dynamite vocal.  And while Pitch and Pocket problems can be fixed by studio trickery, if you don’t have Passion, you don’t have a vocal.  On stage, the three P’s apply maybe even more so, since you don’t have any of the cut and paste and autotune advantages of the studio to fall back on.  Let’s take a look inside the three P’s.

Pitch

Daily DIY: Listen And Play Tighter

In  this excerpt from his new book called “How To Make Your Band Sound Great,” producer and author Bobby Owsinski illustrates the single most important practice needed to make your band as tight as can be.

Play Tighter By Listening To Each Other

One of the fundamental errors that band members frequently make is not listening closely to the rest of the band.  It’s easy to just focus on yourself, but in order to play well together, it’s listening to everyone else that really counts.  This is the single most important action you can take when playing with other musicians.

So what do you listen for?  You listen to how the other musicians are playing or singing a phrase or part. This includes details like:

Daily DIY - Make Your Band Sound Great

This week on Daily DI, we'll share excerpts from the new book “How To Make Your Band Sound Great” by producer and author Bobby Owsinski. Today he outlines the basics of how to improve your band in a few simple steps.

Improving Your Band’s Performance In 3 Easy Steps

When you’re making records, you get to listen to everything under a microscope, and after a while you begin to understand that there are a few universal truths about making your band sound tight and professional. Here’s a brief summary of perhaps the 3 most important steps to improving your band’s performance and taking it to the next level.  I promise you that if you spend even a little time on each of these items, you’ll see positive results immediately. 

Dynamics

DIY: Free Can Build Your Email List

Free music is here to stay, but how do you use free to make money?  We'll be exploring that issue all week on the Daily DIY as well as other daily posts during Hypebot's Last Free Week. 

As Kevin Kelly wrote "When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."  Live performances are one of the things that the net can't reproduce, and the most proven way to to mobilize your audience to come to a show is your email list.

Daily DIY: Understanding The Value Of Free

When you're struggling to get a career in music going, its often hard to remember that giving your music away free may well be the most important tool you have to gather and retain fans.  In this short video WIRED's Chris Anderson, who has written a new book "Free" that will be released free on July 7th explains the current "free" revolution.

Daily DIY: Use Free Video Creatively

After you've achieved almost any level of success, there will be a variety of videos about you on YouTube and around the net.  Some you probably uploaded; while others cam from friends, fans and even your family.  They also probably vary in quality from the professional to the embarrassingly bad.

How can can you use all of these videos - even the bad ones - to your advantage?

First learn to use two free tools:

• ClipNabber for grabbing online fan videos
• Video editing software. Here are links to 5

Now you are ready to:

• Organize them into your own YouTube Channel
• Don't have enough videos? Spearhead a local band channel like "Metal in Roanoke" or Bluegrass In Boise"
• Use Clipnabber to grab all the videos from very sources then create your own "best of" video concert.  Have you fans help you choose the songs

Daily DIY: Connect With Your Fans

Building a fanbase is about building a community and the cornerstone of any successful community is communication - two-way communication.

l Once you wrestled their email address from them and got them visiting your site and going to shows, its important for every artist to spend time communicating with their fans and not just talking at them. But how can you do it without loosing your privacy?

• Spend time at the merchandise table. Not only will sales soar, but the fans wil get a chance to talk with you face to face.
• On you blog or in your forum, have each band member take a turn making this "Ask Joey (or Sam or Paul) Week".

Daily DIY: Practice Does Not Make Perfect

In this last of five excerpts from Reality Check - A Common Sense Guide to Breaking into the Music Industry, author Matthew Walt examines the importance and the limitations of practicing.

My high-school tennis coach, Mr. Murch, taught me an invaluable life lesson when I was about fifteen years old. He said, “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.” To me, these are words to live by.

In context, what Mr. Murch was telling me was that it didn’t matter how many balls I hit, or how many backhands and forehands I took every day. If I wasn’t hitting the ball the right way, if I changed my grip and developed a bad habit, then I was ultimately doing more harm than good, no matter how much time I spent on the courts. This is true in every facet of life.

As a musician, you can play for hours at a time but if you aren’t properly warming up and down, or you develop a habit of squeezing your throat and straining to reach the high notes, you can really do damage to your career.

Daily DIY: How To Advance A Show

In the fourth of five excerpts from the new book Reality Check - A Common Sense Guide to Breaking into the Music Industry, author Matthew Walt, a booking agent who has seen first hand why some bands succeed and others fail, looks at the right way to advance a show.

 A common, but easily correctable, oversight is undervaluing the importance of properly advancing your performances. Sometimes an artist simply believes they are prepared, which would seem to render additional conversation redundant. Sometimes it’s a result of ignorance—it's possible that they just don’t know any better. Sometimes it’s the simple fact that dealing with the whole “business side” of the process can feel like a burden instead of an opportunity to an artist, and, as a result, some just don’t care. But the fact is, advance work is a hugely important part of properly representing oneself, and failure to understand something so fundamental can be a serious detriment to the cause.

An advance is just another form of introduction. It’s an icebreaker with venue representatives. It’s the primary contact between artist and venue prior to your arrival, and it can set the tone for an entire relationship if handled, or not handled, properly.

Monday's Music Brief: Edgar, Justice Dept, RIAA, YouTube, SXSW & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• Bad Boy Bronfman: Too-Big Bonus And A Baby
• Justice Dept. Probes Live Nation Ticketmaster Deal
• Interview: Nancy Baym of Online Fandom (Part 1)
• NewBandDaily Promises New Artist Discovery
• Jamendo Adds Creative Commons Licensing
• New Podcast: Media, Gatekeepers, Fandom, Gaming & More
• Daily DIY: Daily DIY: How To Advance A Show
• My Favorite Quote From SXSW
• Follow Hypebot On Twitter
• Rewind: Music's Week In Review - SXSW, SpiralFrog, YouTube & More

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• The Obama administration sides with the RIAA. (Recording Industry vs. The People)
• Music Ally says it knows the sticking point between YouTube and PRS.
• Finding Fame in Austin in the Internet Age (New York Times)
• Seth Godin on the music business (listen) This one is very much worth your time.
• Jill Sobule Shows She Can Create A 'Professional' Fan-Financed Album. (Techdirt)
  
• Minneapolis based indie Afternoon Records launches its own mp3 download store today including a new album each week sold pay-what-you-want. This week's special is Now, Now Every Children's first release, "Not One, But Two".
• Execs Outline Best Fan Marketing Tactics At SXSW. (Billboard)
• Songs about work: One subject that songwriters are laboring to avoid. (FT)
• China, U.S. trade barbs over WTO piracy case. (Reuters)
• More on Choruss pro and con. (EFF) FYI - Still no word on the Techdirt vs.Choruss Smackdown.
• New Zealand withdraws controversial Internet law. (AFP)

REWIND: Music's Week In Review - SXSW, SpiralFrog, YouTube & More

Though attendance was down 10% or so, half the music industry seemed to be at SXSW. But that didn't keep the other half from making news.

• From SXSW: The Mark & Pat Show, Ian Rogers Will Pay You $2 To Say Hi, Don't Let Anyone Tell You It's All About Music, A Slide Show, Surprise! Jane's Addiction @ C3 Bash
• How To Pretend You Were At SXSW
  
• SpiralFrog Shuts Down
• EMI owner Guy Hands Exits Control Of Terra Firma
• Topspin Upgrades Direct To Fan Platform
• Opinion: Live Nation Ticketmaster Merger Is Too Good To Be True
• YouTube - Some Bands Game View Counts and Insight Analytics: Who Likes My Video?
  
• Kyle Bylin interviews Barry Schwartz On The Paradox of Chioce
• The Paradoxes of Choice in Digital Culture
• Prince's New  Direct To Fan Site
• WMG's Bronfman On CEO Excessive Bonus List
• Lesetz vs. Gene Simmons: full video and vote on who won
• Will there be a Techdirt vs. Choruss smackdown?
• More Get Their Music Fix On Social Networks
• Mobile Roadie - iPhone Apps For Indies
• Why The Labels Love Play Anywhere
• An interview with Nettwerk's Terry McBride
• Nine Inch Nail's Trent Reznor On Scalping And Live Nation/Ticketmaster Merger
• Counting Crows Drop Label For D.I.Y.
• ArtistData Upgrades Info Publishing Platform
• Daily DIY: So You Want To Be In A Band?, Create A Business Plan, To Tour Or Not To Tour?
• Video:Isle Of Man ISP Flat Music Fee
• Quick Hits: Gamecues Offers Indies Path To Gaming $'s, Shore Fire Media Promotes Nick Loss-Eaton, Songbird Player Adds 7Digital Integration, ReverbNation's Free Indie Promo E-Book, Merlin Completes Indie Deal With Play Anywhere, Buzznet Grabs $12.5M And A New Name

Daily DIY: To Tour Or Not To Tour?

In our third of five excerpts from the new book Reality Check - A Common Sense Guide to Breaking into the Music Industry, author Matthew Walt, a booking agent who has seen first hand why some bands succeed and others fail, looks at the pros and cons of touring to build a career.

Artists are always quick to assume that touring early on is the only way to succeed, and there are several seemingly reasonable arguments in favor of this. It makes the band tighter the more they perform, gets their name out in markets where they otherwise wouldn’t be, puts them in front of an audience that otherwise wouldn’t see them play, and creates the impression that they are on the up-and-up. It’s also a source of pride and a feeling that they are “doing something,” as opposed to standing still. 
 
But for every sound argument in favor of touring, there are equally sound counterpoints worth noting. For

ArtistData Upgrades Artist Info Publishing Platform

Keeping your news and tours dates current across multiple sites and social networking pages can be time consuming drudgery. ArtistData  has been working to create a solution and recently the free service took another major step forward with the release of several new features.

• Twitter & Facebook Updates: When artists add shows, news, and blog entries to their account, ArtistData will post updates to Facebook and Twitter with a link to more info on that event.
• News Feeds: ArtistData now generates an Official News Feed for artists’ fans to subscribe to, which is updated with news, blog, and show announcements. These feeds can also be used to update independent widgets and other content generators powered by RSS,
• Tour Book and Day Sheet Generator:  Print professional tour books and day sheets using information already entered into ArtistData.

Daily DIY: Create A Business Plan

In our second of five excerpts from the new book Reality Check - A Common Sense Guide to Breaking into the Music Industry, author Matthew Walt, a booking agent who has seen first hand why some bands succeed and others fail, examines the importance of creating a business plan for your musical endeavor.

Just because the career about which you dream happens to be in entertainment, this does not imply in any way, shape, or form that basic principles of business do not apply. It’s called the music business, and it requires a serious commitment to both—the music and the business. Of course, the music itself is a given—no one need be reminded of that—but all too often artists forget (or ignore) the fact that establishing one’s business requires equal attention, and to that end, I strongly advise creating a business plan.

The plan needn’t be elaborate—at least not at first—nor does it need to be formatted in any “textbook” sort of way. As long as you document what you are trying to do, separating the art from the business so that you may chart the course of your development and the sale of your product, that is a satisfactory first step in the formation of a company (which is effectively what you will become).

Daily DIY - So You Want To Be In A Band?

For the next 5 days The Daily DIY will feature excerpts from the wonderful new book Reality Check - A Common Sense Guide to Breaking into the Music Industry. Author Matthew Walt is a Boston based booking agent who has seen first hand how and why some artists soar and others never get off the ground.

If you are like me, the notion of a “real job” sounds like a fate worse than death - sitting in a cubicle, surrounded by corporate suits, doing “the nine-to-five thing” as your life passes you by. Who among us spent their childhood dreaming of wasting their life away seated behind a desk? I certainly didn't. But then, strangely, that is what I do much of the time, even though I work in entertainment - and so does just about everyone else I know.

You may think: what better way to escape a life of dread than to join a band? Perhaps you started while in high school because you had a passion for the Beatles, the Cure, or the Crue. Maybe you got into it later in life for the ladies, the free booze, the camaraderie, or the escape.

If you are a hobbyist, then more power to you. A passion for music is a passion for life, and future generations will be better off for it. But if you are in a band because you want to “make it big,” whether you think in terms of superstardom or just to eke out a living doing something other than that lousy desk job, then it starts with a simple question: Do you really have what it takes?

Daily DIY: Free Legal Documents To Organize Your Band

Today's Daily DIY is little more than a thank-you and a link. The link is to an article on Music Think Tank entitled "download music business legal documents for creating your own 360 deal" and the thank-you is to Bruce Warila, the man who put this $5000+ worth of legal work up on the web for all to use.

You'll find the free legal documents to organize your band here. Click on the image to enlarge

Daily DIY: Customize Your Facebook Pages

When Mike B created a presence on Facebook for his blog GarageSpin, which focuses on trends and technologies for garage-based home recording studios, he generously decided to take the rest of us along for the ride. In this last of four installments, he customizes his profile, makes it searchable and  more.

Customize Your Facebook Profile

Facebook isn't MySpace; it doesn't allow much in the way of free Facebook layouts, Facebook hacks, or the other garbage that plagues MySpace. If you want to play with your band Facebook profile, customize it with the many Facebook applications that exist. There are some ugly apps out there, though, so be careful what you test or activate.

Be Searchable

A quick word about Facebook search optimization. If you have an odd band name or last name, be sure

Daily DIY - How To Add Music To Facebook

Recently Mike B decided to create a presence on Facebook for his blog GarageSpin which focuses on trends and technologies for garage-based home recording studios with great side  trips looking at the challenges and opportunities that indie musicians face. 

Social networking giant Facebook is an opportunity, and this week on Hypebot's Daily DIY Mike shares how to create a presence on Facebook.  After showing why and how to create band Facebook pages, here Mike explains how to add music to Facebook.

How to Add Music to Facebook

Whether or not you are in a band, you may just want to add your favorite music to Facebook. There are some alternative, and pretty cool Facebook applications built to let you add music to your personal profile. Facebook apps have been created by a bunch of third party websites. Two great Facebook apps are the iLike app and Last.FM app. Be sure to check them out.

Daily DIY - How To Create A Band Facebook Page

Recently Mike B decided to create a presence on Facebook for his blog GarageSpin which focuses on trends and technologies for garage-based home recording studios with great side  trips looking at the challenges and opportunities that indie musicians face. 

Social networking giant Facebook is an opportunity, and this week on Hypebot's Daily DIY Mike shares how to create a presence on Facebook.  Yesterday he explained the differences between Facebook "pages"and "profiles" and today he explains how to get started.

How To Create Band Facebook Page

It takes about 2 minutes:

Tuesday's Music Brief: UK vs. YouTube, Social Networks, Royalties, Muziic & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• YouTube Pulls Music Videos From UK
• Commentary: The UK vs. YouTube & The New Music Industry
• The Converging of Cultures: MTV & YouTube (Part 1)
• Rapid Growth In Social Networking Worldwide
• MidemNet Video: How Musicians Can Make More Money Online
• Merlins Scores Wins With iMesh Deal And Lphant P2P Settlement
• Daily D.I.Y. - Why Your Band Should Be On Facebook

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• Billy Corgan advocates before Congress for The Performance Rights Act (FMQB)
• Five Tips for Musicians to Engage Their Fans Digitally (MediaShift)
• Digital Daily: That Tiny Sum? It’s Your Digital Download Royalties After Packaging and Breakage Costs.
• Thesixtyone Is Building a Digg For Indie Music. (TechCrunch)  Early adopters probably have an advantage here.  Get on board now.
• In biggest raid ever, Swedish police shut down a piracy ring grabbing 10 servers with 65 terabytes of media on them. (The Local)
•  Happy 30th Birthday to the CD! (EW.com)
• Muziic Turns YouTube Into a Playlist Factory (Epicenter) This will be interesting to watch. The site was created by a 15 year old who tried hard to stick to YouTube's API rules (note the the small video player), but somehow I'm betting it will get shut down.
• IODA Chief Kevin Arnold Chats About Unlikely Sales Successes, Statutory Royalty Rates And More (Billboard, partial article without subscription)

Daily DIY - Why Your Band Should Be On Facebook

Recently Mike B created a presence on Facebook for his blog GarageSpin. Mike focuses on "the trends, technologies, and tools making waves in garage-based home recording studios," but he's also known to take great side  trips to look at the many challenges and opportunities that indie musicians face. 

For the next few days on Hypebot's Daily DIY, Mike shares how he created his page on Facebook.  First, the what and the why of Facebook.

A Page Not A Profile
What is a "Facebook Page"? (i.e. not a "Facebook Profile") Most folks know how to use Facebook to create a regular, personal profile page. But not everyone knows about "Facebook Pages", and if you're a musician, band, or artist, you should. Facebook Pages were created by Facebook to enable bands, artists, businesses, politicians, whatever, to create pages for themselves within the social network that are separate from personal profile pages.

Why Create a Facebook Page?
Well, it's super easy, so why not? But more importantly, Facebook usage is skyrocketing,

Monday's Music Brief: Nokia, INgrooves, Bloggers Under Attack, Muziic & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• Major Nokia Music Announcement Wednesday
• Did They Have To Call It "Chicks With Picks"?
• INgrooves Adds Ben Kline As VP Of Sales
• Kyle Bylin's The Personalized Music Experience: The Future
• WaTunes Offers Free Digital Distribution
• Twitter Adds New Search And Trends Tools plus A Hypebot Twitter Contest
• Daily DIY - Why Your Band Should Be On Facebook
• Universal Wins Eminem Royalty Lawsuit
• REWIND: Last Week In Review

MORE INDUSTRY NEWS:

• Google's Blogger is pulling more and more mp3's off blogs without warning. (ars)
• Muziic, created by a 15 year old, is likely to upset the powers that be at YouTube. (CNet)
• Mongrel, an indie supergroup which includes former and current members of Arctic Monkeys, Reverend And The Makers and Babyshambles teamed up with the UK's Independent to give away a free copy of their debut album with Saturday's newspaper, two days before the CD hits the shops. (Independent)
• What kind of person like country music? 50% of them don't have internet access. (Tennessean) And they tell us not to stereotype them....
• The remaining US Virgin Megastores will be gone by summer. (Paste)
  
• The 10 Most Innovative Companies In Music (Fast Company)
• Big Pond becomes the first Australian download store other than iTunes to offer the catalog of all four majors. (stuff.co.nz)
• Austrian digital music revenues grew 14% to EUR 11.4M. (TelecomPaper)

REWIND - Music's Week In Review: Darknet, Vevo, Label Losses, Jango & More

• The Darknet - Limewire Broadens Front In Pointless P2P Battle
• Will YouTube's Vevo Music Hub "Do No Harm" To Indies?
• Terra Firma Writes Off $1.7 Billion EMI Investment
• UMG Results Don't Suck As Bad As Rivals
• Universal Wins Eminem Royalty Lawsuit
• A 3 part interview with Jed Carlson of ReverbNation
• After Leak, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Rush Digital Release
• Jango Offers Indie Artists Pay For Airplay
• Commentary: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
• Concert Tickets - 2 Dirty Little Secrets
  
• No Doubt Gives Away Entire Catalog To Fans
• The Beatles Go Game For Rock Band
• Coda.fm is not your average site for pirates
• A transcript of Jim Griffin of Choruss' Keynote At Digital Music Forum East
• DAILY DIY: Develop Your Personal Brand,  What's The One Thing?,  Automate Your Band's Social Networking,  Your 10,000 Hours,  Your Best Salesman
• VIDEOS: Literal Videos Offer Comic Twist On Classics,  Band Uses 4 iPhone Apps To Produce Viral Hit,  Tap Tap Revenge Adds 150 Free Songs,,
• BRIEFLY: Nimbit Gets $1M,  Fabchannel Shuts, Telenor Rejects Pirate Bay Ban,  MySpace Forces Mac Users To Uprade OS,  Bandcamp Exits Beta,  Neil Young On WMG YouTube Battle, Slicethepie Expands On Bebo,  EMI Names Gary Beech SVP Urban Marketing