Indies Boycott Limewire Party At Digital Music East
American Association Of Independent Music (A2IM) President Rich Bengloff is encouraging his members attending this week's Digital Music Forum East to boycott at Limewire sponsored reception on Thursday evening. "…Services. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: MySpace Refocuses, Guvera, MTV Digital, OK Go, UK 3 Strikes & More
MySpace will refocus on music discovery post-management shakeup. (TechCrunch) Microsoft phone system hits reset on digital music. (Reuters) Inside Guvera: Free, Ad-Supported Music … With a Twist. (Epicenter) Twitter Hits. Continue reading
The Orchard Ups Navin From Interim To Full CEO
Digital distributor The Orchard announced on Monday morning that interim CEO Brad Navin has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and a director of the company. Navin was selected after Board. Continue reading
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
