Network Live Falls Apart As Control Room Launches

Network Live, the company that promised to take live concerts across all platforms including the web, cell phones and satellite radio has dissolved. Started after an impressive Live8 debut the. Continue reading

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Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Wednesday September 27th, 2006

– WMG’s Edgar Bronfman is calling on EMI investors to convince them that a hook-up with WMG makes sense despite recent European Union signals that any merger might not get. Continue reading

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Live Nation Takes On Ticketmaster Over High Fees

We’ve been hearing rumors of this for several months, but now the riff has gone public.  Concert giant Live Nation is fighting with Ticketmaster to lower ticketing fees as part. Continue reading

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Fader To Publish Japanese Edition

FADER music magazine today announced the launch of FADER Japan.  This comes on the heels of the announcement that the FADER was the first magazine to be made available in. Continue reading

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m-Venue Brings Music & Texting To McDonalds

Starbucks is not the only retailer whose figured out that music can be powerful part of the consumer  experience. m-Venue enables control via cell text messaging of the music and. Continue reading

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Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Tuesday September 26th, 2006

With this installment of our daily briefing we’re replacing the term "New Music Industry" with "New Music Business" in the title. In the new paradigm which we’re writing so much. Continue reading

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SoundExchange Holding Royalties For Hard To Find Artists…Like Tone-Loc and T. Bone Burnett

And those artists are just in the "T’s"… SoundExchange collects royalties from performances in digital media like online and satellite radio stations. Kind of a BMI or ASCAP for digital. Continue reading

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New Releases: Solomon Burke, Jerry Lee Lewis, Amos Lee

While we had trouble prying the wonderful new Ray Lamontagne CD out of the player, we knew we had to check out a few of the new releases hitting stores. Continue reading

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UK Indies & All 4 Majors Support Gnab Download P2P Combo

Launched earlier this summer gnab owned by leading European mobile entrainment provider arvato enables online retailers to combine a centralized library of downloadable content with a fully licensed P2P system. Continue reading

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Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Monday September 25th, 2006

Neil Young is set release the first in his Archived Performance Series on Nov. 14 vie Reprise with Young and Crazy Horse "Live At The Filmore East 1970". The disc. Continue reading

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