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More Free Music: Windows 7 And ReverbNation, RCRD LBL And MySpace Music

Does Free Music Still Have Value? A free sample track to share has become the price of entry for every new artist as well as many more established acts. But. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/03/2009 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (2)
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Amazon MP3 Launches In Austria & Switzerland

Continuing its march across Europe, Amazon MP3 launched in Austria and Switzerland early Thursday morning. The sites are now live at www.amazonmp3.at and www.amazonmp3.ch. Each launched with more than 10. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/03/2009 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (3)
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New TweetDeck Features Ease Networking Overload

Keeping your social networking presence on multiple platforms up to date as well as monitoring incoming messages, retweets and important news can be a full time job for artists, marketers. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/03/2009 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (4)
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More New Music Industry News: Music Hack Day, Open BitTorrent Still Open, Vinyl, Indie India & More

The next Music Hack Day takes place in Stockholm Sweden on January 30-31. Swedish Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent – Last month, the Swedish ISP Portlane was sued. Continue reading

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MySpace Music Launches In UK

As rumored for months, MySpace Music finally launched in the U.K.on Wednesday evening. The site offers the same features as U.S. and Australia including free ad supported song and video. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/02/2009 in Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
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MOG: A First Look

I'll be writing a longer post tomorrow morning that includes my interview with MOG.com CEO David Hyman. But before today gets away from me, I wanted to share a few. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/02/2009 in Streaming | Permalink | Comments (10)
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Interview: Scott Kirsner of Fans, Friends & Followers

From Kyle Bylin: Today, I spoke with Scott Kirsner, author of Fans, Friends and Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age.  Scott shares his perspective. Continue reading

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MOG All Access Streaming Is Live

UPDATE 3:  MOG.com is now live. Read my "first look" here. Read Hypebot readers' first impressions after the jump below.

Bruce Houghton on 12/02/2009 in Uncategorized | Permalink | Comments (14)
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Leaked Memo Shows U.S. Gov’t Supports 3 Strikes

In recent weeks, privacy advocates and others have been encouraging the U.S. government to make public it's secret "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement", but so far the Obama administration has refused on. Continue reading

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Too Much Joy’s Absurd WMG Royalty Statement

(UPDATED) There is a long and illustrious list of artists who have complained about major label accounting practices; and almost every audit or lawsuit that I've ever been aware of. Continue reading

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