SellABand Down Just When It Needs To Be Up
click on image to enlarge Greeting visitors to Sellaband on Monday morning was the message, "Sorry, we're currently down for maintenance…we expect to be back up tomorrow by the end. Continue reading
Jamendo Shifts Gears Under New Ownership
Jamendo, which made available tens of thousands of free tracks licensed through one of several Creative Commons licenses or the Free Art License is changing course under new ownership. "After. Continue reading
Moral Panics and Music Journalism
Kyle Bylin (@kbylin), Associate Editor I am not a murderer. Therefore, to be accused of such an atrocity does elicit a certain degree of animosity within me. Yet, Nathan Harden. Continue reading
EMI: Abbey Road Studios Not For Sale …Yet.
Struggling music group EMI says that recent reports that The Beatles' famous Abbey Road Studios is for sale are untrue. "In mid-2009, we did receive an offer to buy Abbey. Continue reading
Aspiro Launches WiMP In Nowary With All 4 Majors
Streaming Music Service Adds Local Focus Aspiro and Platekompaniet in cooperation with Norwegian telecom Telenor have launched its music streaming service WiMP with 6.5 million tracks from all four major. Continue reading
Spotify Explains Weekend Outage
Spotify experienced a major outage on Saturday that took down the entire streaming service and for a time even the company's web site. By Saturday evening Spotify was back up. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Twones, MySpace Stream, Watunes, Jay-Z, TuneCore & More
Watch for Amsterdam based Twones to launch a new tool bar Wednesday that allows you to listen to, playlist and scrobble music from across the net. I took a demo. Continue reading
Spotify Experiences Major Outage
Sometime before Noon EST on Saturday Spotify experienced a major outage. Both the Spotify.com site and the streaming service were down for several hours. "Looks like we might be having. Continue reading
REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review
Investor Guy Hands wants to break up EMI. Ad supported Guvera to launch in U.S. on March 20th. Spotify users average 15,000 tracks per playlist. Cheap Trick's manager David Frey. Continue reading
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