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Amanda Palmer Crowdsources New Video, Tweets Fans For Flash Mob Of Extras

Leave it to Amanda Palmer to combine crowdsourcing, Twitter and a flash mob to both give her LA fans a treat and successfully create a new ultra-low budget video.  According. Continue reading

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White Stripe Gets The Weird Al Treatment

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Big Champagne Revamps Charts, Adds Two Free Music Industry News Services

BigChampagne Media Measurement has released BC Dash – a software platform for integrating, analyzing, and reporting information about the sale, broadcast and consumption of popular entertainment media. "We're always working. Continue reading

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Taylor Swift Jumps Into Gaming…Literally

As if to prove that gaming isn’t just for geeks anymore, platinum selling country star Taylor Swift will ascend an all-new virtual stage this November in Band Hero, the music. Continue reading

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More Music News Wed. 8/5/09: Preformance Royalties, Imeem, Spotify, Pirate Bay Stock & More

Senate holds radio performance royalty hearings. (FMQB) iTunes Mexico launched yesterday (press release) and Tunecore has added the new store to its distribution roster. The flat fee distributor already offered. Continue reading

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iLike Expands D.I.Y Artist & Concert iPhone Apps

iLike has been using iPhone apps to extend its reach for several months with some solid results. In May, iLike announced a turnkey system enabling d.i.y. creation iPhone apps featuring. Continue reading

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The Orchard Opens API To Select Artist Services

Digital distributor and marketer The Orchard is launching a groundbreaking platform, using an API, to provide its artist and label clients access to third party business solutions within their client. Continue reading

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The Band As A Billboard: New Mariah Carey CD Booklet To Be Covered With Ads

The headline reads "The Monetization Of Mimi" and what better artist to embrace ads on her CD booklet than someone who sold out long ago.  When Mariah Carey's "Memoirs of. Continue reading

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Vote: Is It OK To Have Ads Inside CD Booklets?

Online Surveys & Market Research Read the full story of Mariah Carey's foray in CD booklet advertising here.

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How Obsolescence Shapes Popular Music

"Near the end of the twentieth century, Major Labels that embraced disposability and commercial music as a viable way to achieve repetitive consumption realized that in catering previously to niche. Continue reading

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An Interview With Techdirt’s Mike Masnick

On Music, New Business Models And The Quest For Win-Win-Win Techdirt.com has grown from a one-man operation founded in 1997 by Mike Masnick to one of the web's leading voices. Continue reading

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