This Week’s UK indiestore.com Picks
Stutterbunny ’15ft’There’s nothing stuttering about this Glasgow four-piece. Think Blondie, Elastica, The Cramps, Glitter Band… oh, you know. They’ve balls the size of cabbages and make an utterly splendid racket.. Continue reading
Major Labels Crawl Towards MP3’s
We’ve been saying it for weeks, but now word is coming out of France at the industry gathering MIDEM that 2007 will be the year that the majors seriously experiment. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Business Briefing For Thursday January 25th, 2007
Is Hypebot’s Daily Briefing back? Not quite. But sometimes it’s the best way to share a quick roundup of industry news…and today is one of those days. >>> IODA grabs. Continue reading
Indie Retail’s VanCleave Sounds Off About The “Keystone Cops” At EMI
FROM MIDEM – "Today I was in the lobby of the Carlton hotel right there on the ole Rivera…and noticed Eric Nicoli across the room…" "He of course runs the. Continue reading
Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 01-21-07
Pos. ARTIST | TITLE 1 MAYER*JOHN|VILLAGE SESSION EP 2 SPEKTOR*REGINA|BEGIN TO HOPE 3 BEATLES|LOVE 4 CALE/CLAPTON|ROAD TO ESCONDIDO 5 TV ON THE RADIO|RETURN TO COOK 6 WAITS*TOM|ORPHANS 7 CASE*NEKO|LIVE. Continue reading
Billboard & Rehearsals.com Ink Pact
FROM MIDEM – CenterStaging and Billboard will cooperate on a project designed to discover and promotion of new talent as well as the production and distribution of music industry. Continue reading
IODA Adds Burnside And Other Distributors
FROM MIDEM: Digital distributor IODA has added of four new independent physical distributors to its catalog. Burnside Distribution Corp, Liaison Distribution, Thirty Tigers and Traffic Entertainment will now be able. Continue reading
Is SpiralFrog Dead Before Launch?
According to several sources a half dozen top executives and almost as many board members have exited SpiralFrog since Christmas. Included in the group are most of those with strong. Continue reading
Mobile Music Spending To Top $32 Billion By 2010
Global spending on mobile music ranging from ringtones to full track downloads is expected to reach $32.2 billion by 2010 let by spending in the Pacific Rim according to Gartner. Continue reading
MTV & Verizon Partner For Multi-Platform MTV Live
MTV and Verizon Wireless are producing a new event series "MTV Live". The monthly series will be recorded live at the Hard Rock Cafe NY in Times Square and broadcast. Continue reading
