According to Digital Music News at NARM the RIAA was qouting "….research showing that 29 percent of all recorded music obtained in 2004 was either burned or ripped from others…But. Continue reading

Sanctioned P2P application Peer Impact will soon layer streaming radio into its service provided by Live365. According to Digital Music News, "Peer Impact, owned by Saratoga Springs, NY-based Wurld Media,. Continue reading

Ever wonder how the indy labels sometimes get it right when the majors so seldom seem to?  Indy’s don’t buy success.  They can’t even afford to try.  Instead they stay. Continue reading

Broadcast radio is doomed. See your over valued satellite radio stock. Here comes Roadcasting… Developed by The Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer Interaction Institute, Roadcasting is collaborative, mobile radio. According to. Continue reading

According to Billboard.biz, a struggling Warner Music Group is about to launch a long rumored digital-only "e-label". "Artists signed to the e-label will have their music distributed only as digital. Continue reading

Cross post with The Lefsetz Letter. COMMENTARY: I’ve believed for some time that we are entering an era where there will be far fewer super-stars and far more mid-level artists.. Continue reading

UPDATE:  HitsDailyDouble.com continues to have some of the more interesting coverage  of the Jason Flom firing, "…As the fear and loathing grows inside Warner Music Group, many in both the. Continue reading

In  a move that must be motivated by money more than anything else, sources report that Garth Brooks has confirmed that he will be releasing his catalog titles via an. Continue reading

From Live365 boss Rags Gupta, "Labels are continuing to horizontally integrate by treating their artists as music franchises instead of recording franchises.  This times it’s Universal Music Group and their. Continue reading