Monday’s Music Brief: Live Nation $’s, Seeqpod, Rio To Vevo, Wireless iTunes, eBay Downloads & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

Kyle Bylin: “The Death of the CD-Release Complex” (Part 2)
Live Nation Looks To Ticketholders For Increased Revenues
Seeqpod Saga Continues
LoudFeed Hopes To Empower The D.I.Y. Artist
Bruce Houghton: Despite The All The Gloom And Doom I'm Still Optimistic About The Music Industry
REWIND: Music Industry's Last Week In Review

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

Universal Music's digital head Rio Caraeff will also head the company's planned Vevo online music video site scheduled to launch later this year with help from Google's YouTube. (All Things Digital) Is Vevo about revenue. control or both? Will Universal pull its content from YouTube? What about Hulu? There are more questions than answers…

Apple is planning to offer wireless downloads via proprietary kiosks in airports, malls, etc. (Pocket-Lint)

Amazon powers track sales or ABC’s new ‘Music Lounge’. (paidContent)

Why Tech Pundits Should Just Shut Up About The Music Business, Continued: Mourn Not The Precious, Money-Losing Startups (Idolator)

eBay is expanding its digtal music download experiment to Spain. (Billboard) We reported on a similar eBay music download initiative in Australia last week. Is the US next?

On Monday the band posted a MySpace blog titled “DESCRIBE THE NEW FIERY FURNACES' ALBUM–WITHOUT HAVING HEARD IT!” (Pollstar)

No Musicians Have Ever Been Guaranteed To Make Money Selling Music. (Techdirt)

Three old school lions roar again: Industry veterans Paul Barrette, Jerry Brenner and Brian Interland announce the formation of MF Entertainment Group, offering promotion, marketing, artist relations, management, touring and new media services. (FMQB)

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