United Airlines Destroys A Guitar And Gets A Viral Country Hit In Return

Halifax musician Dave Carroll went viral to protest the behavior of United Airlines and its treatment of his Taylor guitar. "United Breaks Guitars," which was posted on YouTube Monday has. Continue reading

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Rates Go Up For Downloads Sold From CD Baby Site

CD Baby is upping the rate it charges artists for downloads sold direct from it's site from 9% to 25% with a 27 cent minimum.  CD Baby blamed the increase. Continue reading

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Friday’s Music Brief: Unlimited Downloads, Reznor’s Advice, Webcaster Woes, Critique Of Free & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES: ASCAP Wants $'s For Embedded YouTube Videos Zookz: Unlimited Downloads For One Monthly Fee TuneCore's Jeff Price Clarifies Universal Deal Trent Reznor: What To Do As A New. Continue reading

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A2IM Charts A Course For The Future Of Indie Music

ONLY 6000 OF THE 105,000 ALBUMS RELEASED IN 2008SOLD MORE THAN 1000 COPIES During the recent 4th anniversary meetings of the American Association Of Independent Music (A2IM) members gathered in. Continue reading

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TuneCore Partners With Universal Music

  (UPDATED) An upstart digital distributor that made a name for itself by criticizing the major labels has now joined hands with one. TuneCore has entered into a strategic alliance. Continue reading

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There’s Still A Place Where Albums Outsell Singles

Many say that the album is dead and they have the proof. According to Nielsen SoundScan, sales of individual digital tracks led digital album sales by 16 to 1 (1.07. Continue reading

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First Music Video Shot On An iPhone

Impressive video results from an iPhone from small Ohio production house for Showdown “Play” by BJSR.   More @ Wired

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Bertlesmann & KKR Launch Music Rights Biz

Bertelsmann AG and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts have creates a joint venture to develop a global music rights management business. Bertelsmann will contribute its BMG Rights Management music rights unit and. Continue reading

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Kazaa Adds HD Video Sharing

Kazaa is planning to release a major new service will allow members the ability to upload and share their standard and HD videos direct with the Kazaa community. The addition. Continue reading

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Thursday’s Music Brief: A2IM, TuneCore + Universal, RIAA #’s, Pitchfork, New Music Seminar & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES: A2IM Charts A Course For The Future Of Indie Music TuneCore Partners With Universal Music There's Still A Place Where Albums Outsell Single Bertlesmann & KKR Launch Music. Continue reading

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Indie Distributor Lumberjack Mordam Goes Under

Independent distributor Lumberjack Mordam has gone out of business. Effected are more than 100 mostly punk and hard core record labels. Sources tell Hypebot that a number of  the labels. Continue reading

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