All You Really Need To Know About Apple’s Earning Results: More Profits, Fewer iPods, Google Sucks
Apple announced impressive financial results for its fiscal Q4 ending September 25th posting record revenue of $20.34B and net quarterly profit of $4.31B. Gross margin was 36.9 %. International sales. Continue reading
ReverbNation Buys Mobile App Maker Sound Around
ReverbNation has acquired Sound Around, an application developer focused on creating custom mobile apps for musicians. The deal will enable ReverbNation to extend its growing artist toolkit. Details of the. Continue reading
Terra Firma & EMI vs. Citigroup Trial Day One: “They knew they’d lied.”
The court battle between investment firm Terra Firma and bankers Citigroup over the $4.9 billion purchase of EMI began yesterday with all of the expected finger pointing and accusations. "They. Continue reading
Readers Respond: Why Albums Shouldn’t Cost $1.50
Last week, former Warner Music executive Rob Dickens argued that the price of albums should be radically reduced. He thinks that they should cost around $1.50. If lowered to this. Continue reading
Music Industry News: SoundCloud’s Big $’s, Privacy Issues On Facebook, 7 Digital, Finetunes & More
One nugget in Apple's earnings report yesterday was news that iPod sales aren't soaring like they used to. More proof, in my opinion, that every music company and artists needs. Continue reading
Gene Simmons To ‘Sue The Pants Off’ Anonymous
Gene Simmons plans to sue members of Anonymous. In light of his websites being kicked offline by the group, he has written on his site (which is now down… again). Continue reading
MTT: A Fragmented Music Community
Dante Cullari posts about how music is spread out all over the Internet. The fragmented nature of the Internet has produced hundreds of music websites. Artists can benefit from eliminating. Continue reading
Artist Revenue Opportunities Without Playing Live
This guest post is by Bobby Owsinski. Triangle Exception, a winner of the Hypebot Hit Song Contest got to pose two questions to him as their prize.* In most cases,. Continue reading
Victory Records Funds Worst Anti-Piracy PSA Ever
Victory Records hired comic Gilbert Gottfried to star in an anti-piracy PSA where he repeatedly tells music pirates to go fuck themselves. It's hard to say where this plan went. Continue reading
“Be Ready To Stay Up Late And Have A House Full Of Gear.” – Todd Hansen, Better Than The Van (Pt. 1)
(UPDATED) Recently, I spoke with Todd Hansen, who is co-founder of Better Than The Van, a hospitality service for touring musicians. In part one of this two part interview segment. Continue reading
