Tuesday’s Music Briefing: Hype Machine, EMI Sues, WiFi & More
- Introduce Yourself To The Hypebot Community. Meet this interesting bunch and say hello.
- Live Stub: Secondary Ticketing Goes Free
- BMI Collections Up 7.2% To $901 Million
- Our Podcast #3: Pandora and Muxtape
- oll: Should the music industry work to lower the drinking age?
> MP3 aggregator the Hype Machine gets Valleywag’s "Cute Startup" of the week award. (VW) Didn’t Hype Machine start-up a couple of years ago? They must be looking for money.
> EMI has sued Chinese site Yobo.com over 73 titles. (JLM)
> CORRECTION: China The British censor a verse of a "Whole Lotta Love" during the Olympic closing ceremony. (Music 2.0)
> A post-sale Clear Channel ups four key executives and signs the to multi-year deals. (press release)
> Watch out terrestrial radio! Chrysler has added wi-fi in some new models. (Inside Music Media)
> International philanthropic act the Green Children signs with Universal and prepares a US launch. (press release)
> 19 iPhone music apps and hacks. (Garagespin)
> YourMinis offers yet another free widget creation solution. (YourMinis via MediaFurturist) If you’re not using minis to spread content and artist news, you should be.
hype machine is really cool, except for that being illegal thing