eMusic Snags Victory Downloads
Indie label Victory has long been know for it’s aggressive and creative promotion including MySpace, digital street teams and more. But they’ve been slow to embrace digital downloads only recently. Continue reading
Emerging Markets Seen As Next Growth Area For Music Business
As the digital music revolution spreads worldwide emerging markets, particularly China and Russia, have seen increasing start-up and partnership activity. Most emerging markets have been plagued by both physical and. Continue reading
No More Mailed Promos From Matador
Indie Matador has decided to heck with the US Mail and is experimenting with delivering promo and review copies via download. Hypebot knows of some "digital only" labels that have. Continue reading
Barenaked Ladies Score As Indie
The Barenaked Ladies grossed $978,127.99 in revenue from intellectual property in its first week music sales from their new album, Barenaked Ladies Are Free (Desperation Records/Nettwerk Music Group). Understanding this. Continue reading
Yahoo! Offers Another MP3 Download. But Why Not Offer More?
Yahoo!Music chief David Goldberg has been very vocal that downloads should be DRM free mp3’s and he inches that agenda forward with a second major label mp3 offering. Disney’s Hollywood. Continue reading
More Indie Reaction To Tower Bankruptcy & Retail Woes
Part 2 Of A Series: Our friends at world music publicity firm Rock Paper Scissors polled some heads of indie labels on the recent Tower bankruptcy, other cutbacks in the. Continue reading
Film Answers “What Is Indie?”
At a time when independent artists in the music industry have more power and control over their careers than ever before, "What is INDIE?" is a documentary film that tries. Continue reading
Goldberg & New West Form New Label Ammal
Cameron Strang, president of New West Records, and industry veteran Danny Goldberg have teamed to create a new independent record label, Ammal Records. Goldberg will head the label and be. Continue reading
Coolfer Guest Blogs: Can McBride’s Nettwerk Plan Break New Acts?
Last week under the headline "Terry McBride’s New Music Industry." we quoted enthusiastically from a WIRED article about Nettwerk Management’s plans to bring recording industry functions for established clients like. Continue reading
Terry McBride’s New Music Industry
A WIRED Magazine article on music manager Terry McBride’s plans to reinvent the way his artists (including Bare Naked Ladies, Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne and more) sell and promote their. Continue reading
