Billions Agency Adds Artist Management Via New Partnership
David T. Viecelli, President of booking agency Billions and manager Alex Kadvan have launched Lever and Beam, a new NYC based artist management company. The two partners and their staff. Continue reading
iTunes To Expand DRM Free & Variable Pricing According To Report
IT'S OFFICIAL: SEE UPDATE HERE. As soon as today at Macworld, Apple will announce that iTunes is expanding its DRM offering to include all of the major labels and will. Continue reading
Universal vs. Veoh: Score 1 For Music 2.0
Over the holidays Universal Music Group lost a major lawsuit to online video sharing site Veoh. Much like the many lawsuits flying around between the major labels and music 2.0. Continue reading
Daily D.Y.I. – Know The Right Bloggers
Just as digital distribution has democratized music sales, blogging has democratized music journalism. Anyone with a free Blogger or WordPress account can declare themselves a critic. Most bloggers are true. Continue reading
Tribal Leadership Interview Part 2: Building A Tribe
Part 2 of Kyle Bylin's interview with John King. the author of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization. (read part 1 here) Tomorrow author John King. Continue reading
Tuesdays’ Music Briefing: RIAA Tactics, Nokia Sales, Borders, ASCAP & Much More
Sorry for the lateness of today's Music Briefing roundup. It's just one of those days. Stay tuned to Hypebot for any music news coming from Macworld today. I'm monitoring it. Continue reading
Could 2009 Be Music’s Year Of The Garage?
John C Abell at Epicenter resurrected the Rules Of The Garage a kind of 12 commandments of tech written by Bill Hewlett and David Packard that grounded the founding of. Continue reading
Tribal Leadership: Interview With Author John King
Part 1 of a 2 part post by our resident music industry philosopher Kyle Bylin The African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” was used on Hypebot. Continue reading
10 Music Industry Stories From The Holiday Break
WHILE YOU WERE OUT: There was a surprising amount of action in the music industry over the two week holiday break. Here is a quick compendium of top stories that. Continue reading
3 Reasons Sirius XM Will Fail
I hope I’m wrong. I love creative broadcasting, but with its stock sitting around 12 cents a share… "…Sirius XM does have a serious flaw in its capital structure. Its. Continue reading
