Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Friday September 29th, 2006
"…the management team hired a guy from Vegas to teach us choreography. We were to wear suits with velvet collars and do dance steps. We didn’t go along with it, and he said, ‘You don’t have what it takes to make it in show business…" – Roger McGuinn of The Byrds
The Byrds look back with a great new box set. (CNN)
– Podcasters beware: Apple is trying to stop any other company from using the word pod. What’s next Steve? Is it OK to call what I do a "Job"? (Daily Mail) Apple also just announced a fix designed to end complaints about it’s iTunes 7 upgrade. (QJ.net)
– And on a related note…anti-DRM lobby Defective By Design is planning a day of protests on October 3rd. (here)
– Mecora launches new mobile music service that promises to transform the Smartphone into a wireless, socially connected music player with:
- Over the air access to your music library
- Socially connected access to friends’ music (coming soon)
- Over 100,000 channels of digital radio
- Search by Genre, Style or Artist
- Brilliant CD-quality sound
– Need Zune details? We got ’em. (Hypebot)
– EMI is selling the Capital Tower and leasing it back. (Hypebot)
– Talent agents CAA grabs two top UK agents and open London offices. (Hypebot)
