PM UPDATE: Warner Bros./Reprise Layoffs, Slacker + Harmon’s Aha, Grateful Dead Merch, BFM + Royalty Net
Reprise Senior Vice President of Promotion Mike Rittberg, Warner SVP Ron Cerrito, Reprise VP of Pop Promotion Bob Weil, Reprise VP of Alternative Promotion Lynn McDonnell, Warner VP of Pop. Continue reading
The Eagles’ Don Henley Declares “Time Has Come” To Prepare For Battle With Record Labels
"The time has come" for artist to prepare for a potential battle with the record labels, warns The Eagles' Don Henley. While Henley certainly could recite a litany of grievances,. Continue reading
A Trip To Target: How Digital Is Changing Music Retail
As music sales go further from physical CD’s and become all digital, many mass merchandise stores have been cutting down on shelf space and changing their marketing strategies in their. Continue reading
ShortForm’s VJ Channels Offer Playlists, Live VJ’ing
ShortForm is yet another VJ site featuring curation of videos from YouTube and Vimeo. However, unlike most such sites that offer either set playlists of videos, like Reelr.TV, or live. Continue reading
How To Follow, Interact With Hypebot & MusicThinkTank
Hypebot works best as a two way conversation, and we try to make getting involved easy. We recently added a Google+ button and you can join us on Twitter (@hypebot). Continue reading
10 Simple Things To Check Before Sending Your Next Email Blast [INFOGRAPHIC]
Email marketing is essential. It still delivers more bang for the buck and effort than Facebook, Twitter and any other form of contact with fans. But how many times have. Continue reading
Stop Typing And Start Talking To Your Fans With Shoutomatic
Sometimes, you can communicate better and market yourself more by talking instead of just typing updates on Facebook or Twitter. On Music Think Tank, Michael Brandvold introduces Shoutomatic, a website. Continue reading
RapGenius Builds Web Community For Rap Lyrics
Rap Genius has been getting a new wave of press coverage lately and, though I'm not sure what kicked it off, it's easy to see why the site gets attention.. Continue reading
Cricket’s Muve Music Passes 200,000 Subscribers. Leads Spotify, Rhapsody In Mobile Streaming
(UPDATED) Cricket Wireless announced that it's Muve Music service has passed 200,000 subscribers since its January launch. Half of that growth came in just the last 2 months. In the. Continue reading
AM NEWS: Citi Calms EMI Bidders, Facebook’s Big $’s, Lil Wayne Sets Records, Turntable.fm App, More
In the wake of new legal action by Terra Firma and Guy Hands, Citigroup will indemnify bidders for EMI from any future damage claims, according to the Financial Times. Without. Continue reading
