Wednesday’s Music Brief: More NARM, Facebook URLs, JazzTimes Down, Tapulous + Universal & More

More news from the NARM convention today and I'm expecting a second video interview from Virgil today.  But the biggest news may be Facebook's new custom urls. Grab yours before someone else does.

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• Overheard Yesterday @ NARM
  • Virgil's video interview with NARM President Jim Doni
• Class Action Suit Seeks To Reclaim $100M RIAA "Stole"
• Grab Your Custom Facebook URL This Saturday
• Spinal Tap Grooves With INgrooves
• Tim Ferriss Shares First Look At StumbleUpon's New Traffic Builder SU.PR
• Don't miss:The New Rockstar Philosophy
• Free download: Track Your Daily D.I.Y. Activity

MORE MUSIC INDUSTRY NEWS:

• JazzTimes suspends publication and furloughs staff. (JazzTimes) Another music magazine gone…
• More bad news for ad supported music and music mags as ad sales continue to fall. (FT)
• Tapulous Signs Deal With Universal Music To Make Games (mocoNews)
• Naxos of America will add physical distribution of the Ondine label in the U.S. and Canada on July 1st.
• Twitter is beta testing verified accounts where users must prove that they are in fact the major celebrity or brand whose Twitter ID they've grabbed. (Twitter)
• Bopaboo: The business of selling used MP3s. (SF Weekly)
• Radiohead opens their own download store. (prefix)
• Bandwidth Music | Technology Conference 2009 to be held in SF in late August has announTypePad – Edit Postced speakers from Atlantic Records and TuneCore. (press release)
• LimeWire has signed in a few more indie labels to its download store. (DMW)
• “Monetizing Social Media: Here, There, and Everywhere”  (Epicenter)
• Watch the Webby Awards on YouTube.
• National women's retailer Dots has launched a branded web radio station via PlayNetwork.(press release)