Last.fm To Add “Play Direct” Indie Artist Program
But Don't Expect To Get Paid 10 days ago Last.fm dropped single track streaming pushing it off to scrobbling partners like MOG, Spotify and Hype Machine. Among those most impacted. Continue reading
Major Label Atlantic Asks Fan To Help Fund New Natty Release Via Pledge Music
Things must be tough over at Atlantic Records and its parent WMG. First label group president Lyor Cohen is selling his $28 million NYC townhouse and now Atlantic is asking. Continue reading
Video: Music, Twitter and The Real-Time Web
(UPDATED) From The 140 Characters Conference Takeway: Twitter is a very useful viral tool, but don't expect it to convert to sales. Panelists: indie musician Matthew Ebe, Steve Greenberg of. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Bye Bye Malcolm, Amazon $’s, Drooling Fanatic, iPod Taxes & More
Anarchy ruled as Malcolm McLaren's funeral draws punk glitterati. (Guardian) "Where's the cash? Can I dig you up?" – Steve Jones, "On this cruel, cruel day … Get a life!". Continue reading
Earth Day 2010: Take The Clean Concert Pledge
The Clean Concert Pledge is designed to help change the concert-goers trash mentality by asking them to make a simple promise, "I will leave no trash on the ground at. Continue reading
Beyond Oblivion Joins MySpace In News Corps Digital Music Portfolio
(UPDATE 2) Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has increased its bet on digital music beyond MySpace Music with an investment in start-up Beyond Oblivion. With a promised launch date of 10.10.10,. Continue reading
Do Four Chords Make Up Every Hit Song?
Jay Frank takes the scholarly approach to dissecting hit songs in his Future DNA. Australian comedy group Axis Of Awesome prefer to go for belly laughs but along the way. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: RapidShare CEO Out, MXP4 Gets $4M, Anti-Piracy Deal & More
RapidShare Ditches CEO Bobby Chang – RapidShare’s CEO Bobby Chang has left the company with immediate effect. The Switzerland based file-hoster announced that Chang, who headed the company for years,. Continue reading
Facebook Partners With Pandora For Social Music
Pandora and Facebook will be deeply integrated according to an announcement at the F8 Developer Conference today. using Facebook’s new Open Graph protocol, Pandora will stream music directly onto the. Continue reading
TuneUp Adds Windows Media Player Support & Social Features
50 Hypebot Readers Get Free TuneUp Gold Worth $29.95 TuneUp, a really useful app that cleans up digital music libraries "automagically" today added support for Windows Media Player (WMP). New. Continue reading
Nimbit Expands Direct To Fan Toolkit With NimbitPro
At the ASCAP Expo in Hollywood today, direct to fan services provider Nimbit announced the addition of nimbitPro, an improved suite of tools and services designed to allow artists and. Continue reading
