Duran Duran’s Taylor To Musicians: “Twitter (is) diluting their creative powers.”
"When artists today are asked to Twitter their every thought, their every action, to record on video their every breath, their every performance, I believe they're diluting their creative powers,. Continue reading
Bringing Digital Music To The Masses
If digital music is to reach mainstream adoption, the music industry must eliminate the barriers that confuse many non-techie consumers. That's the conclusion of Forrester analyst Mark Mulligan's new report. Continue reading
Why Can’t We All Do It Like The Danish Do?
Danish Anti-Piracy Group Stops Chasing Pirates Following a number of legal setbacks, Danish anti-piracy group Antipiratgruppen, which represents the music and movie industry, says it will stop chasing illegal file-sharers.. Continue reading
What Will Fans Pay For?
This guest post first appeared on Debbie Chachra's blog zed equals zee. Debbie is a Cambridge, MA based academic, music fan, and geek, not always in that order. You can. Continue reading
Who Should Be On New Music Industry Twitter List?
Twitter's new Lists was created to help clear the clutter of too many tweets by allowing users to create and share a list of Twitter authors in a single stream. . Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Spotify Conversions, Beatles Down, Google Search, Legos, Thounds & More
It should be an interesting week ahead as The Orchard stock buy-back talks continue and the overall market reacts to economic news and earnings reports. It's also that start of. Continue reading
REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review
The Orchard's shares doubled on stock buyout news. Did Qtrax tell another lie? Search deal with Baidu may be less than claimed. Falling traffic at MySpace will mean $100 million. Continue reading
Falling Traffic At MySpace Will Cut $100 Million From Google Ad Payments
stats via Alexa Falling traffic at MySpace will cost it $100 million in payments from Google ads according to estimates offered by executives of parent company News Corp. In 2006. Continue reading
Beatles Beat Back Bizaare BlueBeat Legal Defense
(UPDATED) Earlier this week, we reported that a little known U.S. based download site BlueBeat.com had begun selling previously unavailable tracks from The Beatles for just $.25. Everyone knew something. Continue reading
Lloyd Dobler “Mobler” Takes On NYC
Imagine a gaggle of trench coated indie rock nerds walk around NYC with blaring boom boxes helos over their heads and you've got a bit of the flavor of. Continue reading
