The Summer’s Top Concert Tours
USA Today took a look at the summer’s top cocert tours. Not surprisingly, heritage acts continue to lead the pack and packaging multiple acts together got a consumer thumbs up.. Continue reading
Village Voice’s Robert Cristgau Fired
The firings at NYC’s Village Voice continued yesterday with influential music critic Robert Cristgau. Read his open letter to friends and fans on the firing after the jump. "…since I. Continue reading
New Spiral Frog Poll
SpiralFrog with it’s ad supported free downloads is the talk of the industry. What do you think SpiralFrog’s impact will be? Please vote in our online poll in Hypebot’s left column. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Friday September 1st, 2006
– Defective By Design is planning a day of worldwide actions on October 3rd to raise awareness against DRM. Past protests have included call-in campaigns and picketing Apple stores dressed. Continue reading
POLL: 82.5% Say Zune Provides No Real Competiton
In Hypebot’s unscientific poll of readers and industry insiders a whopping 82.5% believe that Microsoft’s ZUNE player and download store will provide no real competition when it launches later this. Continue reading
NPR To Launch Music & Download Site
National Public Radio will create a major digital music service in the first half of 2007 to extend the significant role that their 815 public radio stations hold in music. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Thursday August 31th, 2006
"If someone wants to buy a million CDs from us and then give them away on a street corner, that’s fine with us as long as we get paid." –. Continue reading
Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 8-27-06
Pos. ARTIST | TITLE 1 OUTKAST|IDLEWILD 2 LAMB OF GOD|SACRAMENT 3 J DILLA|SHINING 4 CURSIVE|HAPPY HOLLOW 5 GNARLS BARKLEY|ST. ELSEWHER 6 YORKE*THOM|ERASER 7 WARD*M.|POST-WAR 8 SLAYER|CHRIST ILLUSION 9 PETTY*TOM|HIGHWAY COMPANION. Continue reading
The Fastest Growing Entertainment Marketplace You’ve Never Heard Of: StubHub
You may have never heard of StubHub, but live music fans who aren’t used to getting on the guest list certainly have. Inc. Magazine has just named StubHub the 8th. Continue reading
Generating Buzz With Viral Campaigns
SearchEngineWatch takes techie look at the methods and the effectiveness of link baiting and ("…attracting anyone who can link to your site. The goal is to get the highest level. Continue reading
