New Music Business Briefing: DMX Goes Indie. Is Cover Art Back? Sprint Drops Sirius & More.

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>>> DMX is opening up the 500+ channels of music it provides to cable networks, hotels and other business to independent artists via a new web site GetYouPlayed.com

>>> The latest version of iTunes includes graphics. Could it bring back cover art as part of the music experience? We hope so…

>>> Digital distributor IODA launches PromonetPro – an upgraded quite of digital marketing tools available to both distributed and outside labels.

>>> Burnlounge released a software upgrade BL2 and new social networking component called BurnPages.

>>> Sprint Nextel is dropping Sirius for cell based streaming in favor of its own 10 genre based music channels.

>>> Larry Mattera moves from Amp’d Mobile as WEA’s new head of Digital Sales & Marketing.

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