Festival Volunteers Bring Class Action Against Live Nation & Insomniac
UPDATED: See Insomniac's response after the jump. Live Nation and their EDM partner Insomniac Events, producers of the hugely successful Electric Daisy Carnival series, have been hit with a class. Continue reading
Twitter Stock Tumbles As Music Stocks, U.S. Markets Rise
Wall Street punished Twitter today despite a strong earnings report yesterday. Investors appeared more concern with new numbers that showed slowing growth for the social network. At one point the. Continue reading
Facebook Launches AppLinks.org At F8 Developer Confab, Rhapsody Adds Integration
Today at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference, the social media giant announced the launch of AppLinks.org - a free, open source tool for developers to link content from their apps more easily and directly. Continue reading
U.S. Copyright Fees Rise Substantially
Most U.S. Copyright Office fees, including registration and related services will go up starting tomorrow. The price increases are said to help the government agency be “aligned” with the actual cost. Continue reading
The Next Woodstock: Mysteryland USA 2014
The legacy of Woodstock has been capitalized upon with a variety of festivals including one of the most notorious since Altamont, Woodstock '99 aka Rapestock. With the major EDM festival. Continue reading
Vevo Launches In Mexico
Vevo has launched in Mexico, making it the 14th country for the music video streamer. Vevo already had over 500 million views on it's YouTube artist channels in Mexico last. Continue reading
Steve Albini and Damon Albarn On Art, Business and The Internet
Two artists that can always be counted on to say something interesting recently held forth on tech, the internet and the art and business of music in separate interviews. Steve. Continue reading
Selling Music Audiences To Advertisers Is The Future Of Recorded Music Revenue
By Audience Development Executive Paul Goldstein of The Content Is King. [OpEd] Uncertainty rocking both the broadcast radio and record industries has opened an enormous opportunity for recording artists and. Continue reading
26% Of UK Youth Who Purchase Music In Physical Formats Don’t Buy To Listen
Prior to Record Store Day research firm ICM released a report on the music buying and related listening habits of UK respondents. Though online buying predominates, CD's were found to. Continue reading
Amazon’s Contract Reveals Plans To Radically Lower Streaming Music Royalties
By Rachel Bailey of the Sonicbids Blog. [OpEd] Jeff Bezos’s online mega-store, Amazon, is the Walmart of the internet. In the two decades since its launch, it has positioned itself. Continue reading
