Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Friday October 27th, 2006

– The Eagles and Wal-Mart have formed a "strategic marketing partnership". (press release) But really, it’s all about the music…

– Sony BMG gave its quarterly report to Wall Street. Revenue is flat but losses are smaller. (PDF)

– Dispatch from the Vegoose festival: "Vegoose is attracting mostly jam band fans who can be unbelievably oblivious to music outside that genre." (LA Times blog)

– Danish court tells ISP’s to block access to controversial download site allofmp3.com (AP)

– Jimi Hendrix song catalog gets auctioned off for $15 million, but who really owns the music? (Reuters)

– Uncle Seth is set to play live in Toronto nightclub and simultaneously inside virtual world Second Life. (press release)

– Don’t miss Part 1 of Hypebot’s exclusive interview with the head of leading Chinese download site Top100.cn. (here)