> Yangaroo has appointed Josh Zieman, former VP Marketing at EMI’s Manhattan/Blue Note Label
Group as Senior Vice
President of Business Development. Yangaroo’s Digital Media Distribution Service allows record labels to distribute music directly to radio stations digitally and securely.
> Are the major labels on the verge of becoming profitable again thanks to digital revenues. (ars)
> Mega-managers Q Prime are opening their own label, the Mom & Pop Music Company. (FMQB)
> Vote here in the UK’s BT Digital Music Awards.
> Does Metallica‘s new release sound better on Guitar Hero than it does on CD? MusicRadar thinks so. (Thanks to Randy Taber for the tip.) Tell us what you think.
> Samsung makes a bid for ScanDisk. (AP)
> Shoe manufacturer Timberland is using music to drive four local environmental action days. (press release)
