More Music News Fri. 9.4.09: Pirate Bay Trial 2, Roxanne A Liar, Facebook, Apple, XM & More
Spectrial 2: Pirate Bay Appeal Scheduled for November – In April The Pirate Bay Four were sentenced to a year in prison, and on top of that each of them. Continue reading
HMV Buys 50% Stake In 7Digital For $12.6M
The highlights: Retail giant the HMV Group is investing £7.7M ($12.6M USD) in cash to acquire a 50% equity stake in 7digital 7digital will power. Continue reading
WMG Down Another Exec As EVP Kevin Liles Exits
Stock Dips Below $4.00 Warner Music Group announced today that Executive Vice President Kevin Liles has decided to leave his day-to-day role at the company to pursue his own entrepreneurial. Continue reading
Indie Rights Group Merlin Names New Board
Having completed their two-year term, global independent music rights group Merlin's inaugural board will step down and are being replaced with a board that includes some members of the inaugural. Continue reading
5 Ways Your Band Can Avoid The Twitter Time Suck
This guest post comes from Kevin Breuner – CD Baby podcaster, musician, and indie artist advocate. It first ran on his personal blog. I’m in a new band called Hello. Continue reading
More Music News Thu. 9.3.09: iPhone Ringtones, KCRW, eMusic, YouTube Makes UK Peace & More
Apple to offer ready-made ringtones for the iPhone and hope to announce it next week. (CNet) KCRW will launch Eclectic24, an online, all-music channel blending the collected talents and tastes. Continue reading
TuneCore Adds Amazon CD Store
Flat fee digital distributor TuneCore has opened a store at Amazon.com via Amazon's CreateSpace on demand pressing service. That means TuneCore now offers indie acts the ability to have low. Continue reading
Is Wall Street Weary With WMG?
It wasn't a great day for stocks in general, but the Warner Music Group had a particularly tough run . At one point, it's stock traded at low of. Continue reading
Dear Britney, Acting Dumb Isn’t Smart
I know (or at least hope I know) that few Hypebot readers care much about what Britney Spears is up to lately. Nor do I think Britney in a bathing. Continue reading
The Untold Story of Digital Natives
"At the turn of the twentieth century, Digital Natives only knew a well-developed consumer culture shaped by the means of MTV, commercial radio, and big-box retail outlets,based on a continual. Continue reading
