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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

Bruce Houghton on 02/22/2010 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (3)
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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

Bruce Houghton on 02/22/2010 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (6)
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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

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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

Bruce Houghton on 02/22/2010 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0)
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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

Bruce Houghton on 02/22/2010 in Streaming | Permalink | Comments (0)
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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

Bruce Houghton on 02/22/2010 in Streaming | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Has Pandora Found The Formula For Success?

40 million users $50 million in revenue $30 million royalty payments 35,000 new iPhone app subscribers daily via CNN

Bruce Houghton on 02/22/2010 in Streaming | Permalink | Comments (3)
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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

Bruce Houghton on 02/22/2010 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0)
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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

Bruce Houghton on 02/20/2010 in Streaming | Permalink | Comments (8)
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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

Bruce Houghton on 02/20/2010 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Follow Hypebot Via Twitter, Email, RSS

Join the growing Hypebot tribe at twitter.com/hypebot. almost 6000 people following Hypebot on Twitter. In addition to our regular posts, I also tweet breaking industry news and observations, poll readers,. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 02/20/2010 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
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