More Music Industry News: Music Game Sales Slump, SXSW Keynote, Kemado, Torrent Concerts & More

• Rock Band, Guitar Hero Sales Slump Drops Game Industry Revs By Roughly 50 Percent (paidContent)
• Smokey Robinson will keynote SXSW. (press release) This may hurt me with the SXSW poers that be, but why do they keep going old school with so many keynotes. Smokey is a huge talent, even a pioneer, but…
  
• FCC begins writing new neutrality rules. (NY Times)
• UK's pop singer Cheryl Cole gets her hands dirty for new album as label woos fans –
  Girls Aloud singer's solo LP part of trend to use internet to reach fractured audience. (Guardian)
• Brooklyn indie label Kemado has opened a small storefront selling vinyl and a recording studio as part of its search for a new business model.  Both debuted at CMJ. (ArtsBeat)
• Record-contract limbo behind her, Carly Simon revisits her classics and makes new album a family affair. (Boston Globe) 
• World’s First BitTorrent Powered Live Streamed Concert – Using the Swarmplayer software developed by the EU-funded P2P-Next project, for the first time ever a live concert will be broadcasted on the Internet utilizing BitTorrent technology. (TorrentFreak)