Thursday’s Music 2.0 Briefing: ISP Attack, Koch, Pandora & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• Asia will be 40% of global music market by 2011
• Lisa Loeb on free music, AmieStreet, 360 deals and more.
• Qbox indexes the social web
• Last.fm spreads to major sites across web with new widget

> U2 manager Paul McGuinness continues his attack ISP’s at Asia’s Music Matters. (Variety)

> Koch has signed distribution deals with several urban labels: Viper, TLL, Seas International Entertainment and Iceman Music Group as well as expanded an existing deal with Suburban Noize. (Billboard)

> Pandora finally launches a desktop client to mixed reviews. (ars)

> A growing number of HD stations are signing up with Apple to enable listeners to tag a song for later download via iTunes. (IBD)

> Details via press release of the EMI Qtrax deal. (pdf)

> Blip is like Twitter for music discovery. Send a friend the song your listening to. (Mashable Podcast)

> Top Greek music downloads sites go all mp3. (press release)

INNAPROPRIATEBUNNY – Another new music destination has launched. "expect a bit of music news, a bit of web news, a lot of band, gig and album reviews and not a small amount of rambling on and on about our own self important and badly spelt views about things."