Thank-you again to the New Music Seminar team for a great event. Summer is in full swing, but there was still lots of activity last week:
- An in depth interview with Amanda Palmer
- EU streaming service Spotify is planning a late summer U.S. launch.
- Hypebot's exclusive interview with Amanda Palmer.
- CEO Ian Rogers answers Topspin's skeptics.
- Essay: "The Artist As A Startup & Label As A Venture Fund" and A2IM President Rich Bengloff shares the indlie label viewpoint.
- EMI reshuffles it's digital executives.
- Kazaa relaunches as "The Future Of Digital Music". It's not.
CEO promises a simplified MySpace, and growth may be slowing at the main site, but MySpace Music is going strong
- Artist organization tool Bandize leaves beta with a bang.
- Rock Band game opens platform to indie music. Watch a video intro.
- Techdirt experiments with a formula to save the music industry.
- Survey shows that pirates can become paying fans.
- The Orchard partners with Michael Caplan's One Haven.
- INgrooves and Topspin partner for direct to fan marketing.
- Vote: What do you think of Perez Hilton's first signing?
- Music Widgets Come Of Age: Tunecore and theBizmo.
- Report from last week's New Music Seminar: "There are no more excuses."
- Unlimited download site Zookz goes down.
