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Telegraph.co.uk

EMI turnaround plan hitting all the wrong notes
Globe and Mail
The private equity firm underestimated the rate of decline in EMI's traditional music business and found that its data collection and analysis systems were ...
EMI Banks on a Media-Industry VeteranWall Street Journal
EMI Chief Has to Raise Money in 'Make or Break' DashBusinessWeek
EMI quickly needs to change the recordFinancial Times
New York Post -PerezHilton.com (blog) -The Guardian
all 103 news articles »

Gigwise

Austin music tech start-up launching at SXSW
Bizjournals.com
... are modeling the business after the actions of the iconic Grateful Dead band, whose members were known to record live shows to document American music. ...
Music CitiesHouston Press
SXSW: A brief history of the festivalHilltop Views
AUSTIN MUSIC FOUNDATION PRESENTS PARTY:SMART With MARTIN ATKINSMusic Indistry News Network
ZDNet (blog) -Fort Worth Star Telegram -Earthtimes (press release)
all 223 news articles »

MXP4 to Show SXSW Attendees How Interactive Music Will Drive Increased Fan ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Jeff Marois, MXP4's Vice President of Business Development, will speak on the panel, "Global Music Marketing: How to Reach Fans Worldwide. ...

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Circles Records & Tapes to end its 38-year run
Arizona Republic
But he said their days in the music business are behind him. "The business is so different than it used to be," Leonard said. "We sort of stumbled into this ...

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Telegraph.co.uk

UK STUDY: ISPs Could Earn $304mw/Bundled Music Services
Zeropaid
“Though some may question the value of such insight from an industry which has failed to acknowledge the impact of new technology on its own business models ...
UK's major ISPs could make 'up to £200m' a year from digital music servicesTelegraph.co.uk
Music Biz Hopes To End Piracy By Tempting ISPs With MillionsTorrentFreak (blog)
TalkTalk ticked off at BPI 'dumb pipes' jibeZDNet UK (blog)
Billboard Business News
all 27 news articles »

Sydney Morning Herald

EMI Loses UK Ruling Over Sale of Pink Floyd Singles
BusinessWeek
“Everybody in the music industry is looking to extract whatever value they can at this point.” EMI, owned by Guy Hands' Terra Firma Capital Partners Ltd. ...
Pink Floyd score victory for the concept album in court battle over ringtonesThe Guardian
Pink Floyd to EMI: We Don't Need No Digital SinglesFast Company
Pink Floyd Wins Suit Over DownloadsWall Street Journal
Atlanta Journal Constitution -Financial Times
all 973 news articles »

Sydney Morning Herald


Gigwise

Record Labels: Change Or Die
Gizmodo Australia
It's a lousy time to be a record label. Profits are tanking, bands are angry – OK Go just ditched EMI – and ...
OK Go launch Paracadute record labelMOG (blog)
OK Go Splits From Record Label EMIWall Street Journal (blog)
OK Go Leave EMI and Start Own Record Label, ParachuteBeatCrave.com
University of Hartford Informer -CMU News-Blog (blog) -New York Magazine
all 41 news articles »

Consequence of Sound

Who needs record labels?
Independent
If this smacks of record companies trying to justify their existence, you can hardly blame them. For years record labels have been told that their days are ...
Conventional record labels are still the way to go, says music industryConsequence of Sound

all 2 news articles »

Web User

Even in Internet Era, Artists Benefit From Record Label Support, Study Contends
New York Times (blog)
“One of the biggest myths about the digital age is that artists no longer need record labels,” says the report, released by the London-based International ...
New Report Shows How Much Record Companies Are "Investing In Music"Music Indistry News Network
Musicians 'Still Need Record Labels' Says ReportSpinner
Musicians still need labels, report claimsThe Guardian
CMU News-Blog (blog) -AFP -Web User
all 40 news articles »

The Saginaw News - MLive.com

Let Ted Leo tell you what he's thinking
The Saginaw News - MLive.com
If any artist would seem to personify the difficulties and frustrations of working with a record label in the post-Napster, file-sharing era, it's Ted Leo. ...

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Consider This - Radio performance tax
WMBF
This performance tax is a fee that record labels want the government to impose on local radio stations simply for providing music to their listeners. ...
Should Radio Stations Pay for Performance Rights?Atlantic Online (blog)

all 2 news articles »

Gigwise

South by Southwest: A Virtual Playground in Austin
New York Times (blog)
Every March, thousands of entrepreneurs and digital types descend on Austin, Tex., for South by Southwest Interactive. ...
15 SxSW 2010 Parties and Meetups You Can't MissZDNet (blog)
Chevy To Test Social Media Waters At SXSWMediaPost Publications
Chevrolet to Evaluate Emerging Social Media Technologies at South by SouthwestPR Newswire (press release)

all 223 news articles »

Technorati (blog)

RealNetwork's ex-CEO on The Next Mobile Revolution
Technorati (blog)
... from user-generated sources as well as mainstream media outlets, and cited the popularity of his own product, the digital music service Rhapsody. ...

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Unwired View

comScore: Android gains as iPhone stagnates
ConnectedPlanet (blog)
About 12.8% of phone users listened to cell phone-stored music, up 1.2% sequentially. - Nearly 20% of mobile subscribers used a downloaded application, ...
Google planning UK ads, but why bother?The Next Web

all 502 news articles »

Stickybits allows you to embed digital content on objects
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Then you could attach a message to the bar code: say text, a photo, music or a video that anyone could then scan with their smart phone. ...

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Dream Radio Bows on iheartradio
MarketWatch (press release)
The company's content can be heard on AM/FM stations, HD digital radio channels, on the Internet, at iheartradio.com and on the iheartradio mobile ...

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Read all 'Mobile operating systems' posts in Digital Noise: Music and Tech
CNET
Whether you're a U2 fan or not, it's great to see RIM getting serious about mobile music, and I think it'll help cement RIM's position alongside Apple at ...
Palm Acknowledges the Pre Isn't an 'Anything' Killer. Game Over?Wired News
Palm WebOS Fails to Meet ExpectationsSan Francisco Chronicle

all 613 news articles »

Creamfields Extends License
I Like Music
UK super-club brand Godskitchen kick starts the year with Pure Trance Classics. Win a copy! Label honcho Flying Lotus brings his hyperkinetic live show to ...

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Gigwise

Record Labels: Change Or Die
Gizmodo Australia
These deals make the most sense for huge acts with lots of opportunities for branding and licensing. You've seen it in action here on Giz, in fact, ...
YouTube Darlings OK Go Say Bye-Bye to EMIMashable (blog)

all 41 news articles »

Los Angeles Times

This music is sponsored by ...
Los Angeles Times
Rockers, rappers and up-and-coming pop titans of all stripes are licensing music and image as an integral part of brand-building, which largely has usurped ...

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The Guardian (blog)

Corey Haim: a career in clips
The Guardian (blog)
Haim's guileless, fun-loving, all-American brand of youth and confidence won him many admirers. But it was a difficult schtick to carry into adulthood. ...

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New York Times (blog)

Kiss Develop A Kids Show, Leaving Only These Five Things Left To Brand
MTV.com
... of licensing and merchandising, from Kiss M&M's to Kiss Dr. Pepper," Simmons said in a statement. "Kiss is a band, but also the only music brand. ...
KISS Plan Children's Television ShowCrawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock
E1 And KISS Team Up To Create New TV Series - Mar. 9, 2010Blabbermouth.net
Kiss Colleagues Plan Kids' ShowNew York Times

all 77 news articles »

CNET

EFF knocks iPhone developer license agreement
CNET
Would you ban generic prescriptions and store-brand products because they're just ripping off the big companies? Or is it only wrong when the company with ...

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SkyTag offers $12.5 mil to Save the Peak...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:06:40 EST
Film News: Industry heavyweights pitch in for Hollywood sign -- SkyTag, the innovator of large scale Supermurals, will donate $12.5 million to purchase the 138 acres of land surrounding the Hollywood sign.

Variance picks up 'Park Bench'...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:02:51 EST
Indie News: Company nabs N.A. rights to indie musical -- Variance Films has acquired theatrical rights to indie musical "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench."

Noyce to direct 'Wenceslas Square'...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:00 EST
Front Page: Endgame is fast-tracking scribe Phillips' spy thriller -- Phillip Noyce will direct spy thriller 'Wenceslas Square' for 'This American Life' producers Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp, and Endgame Entertainment's James D. Stern.

Conan O'Brien's 'Funny' fans...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:00 EST
TV News: The comedian hits the road on a 32-city tour -- Will Conan O'Brien fans be able to sit back at home and watch new footage of the ex-"Tonight Show" host sooner than expected?

Pepper joins cast of Coen Bro's 'True Grit'...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:00 EST
Film News: Thep inks deal with Par to play 'Lucky' Ned Pepper -- Barry Pepper won't even have to use a fictional surname as he joins the cast of the Coen brothers' "True Grit."

Vidgame sales continue slump...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:00 EST
Technology News: 'BioShock 2' sold the most units in February -- New February releases "Dante's Inferno" and horror sequel "BioShock 2" couldn't scare up enough sales to help the videogames biz climb out of an ongoing sales rut.

Toronto...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:54:25 +0000
DA PLANE I do my best to fly American.  Yup, that loyalty program works.  If I’m Gold, which I am, I don’t have to pay for bags and…I can get upgraded…which happened just last week! But not to Toronto.  The front of the plane was booked.  I had to sit in the back. Not too bad.  I’m just [...]

Ratings...
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:31:05 +0000
We’re in the midst of a cultural shift. A few years back, I became addicted to a Discovery Channel show about climbing Mt. Everest.  Discovery is channel 3 on my Time Warner system.  In fact, Discovery’s got great placement on all viewing systems.  Still, I could not find a single soul who’d seen the show until [...]

All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side)...
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:33:22 +0000
Do what you do, don’t bring me down I was driving down the San Diego Freeway, sun in my face, the interior of my car still cold from sitting outside overnight, listening to Deep Tracks. They played that Manassas track "Right Now"…  This is the quintessential Stills, not the debut which got all the hoopla.  Buy this [...]

Tamp ‘Em Up Solid...
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:35:51 +0000
There was an incident in the checkout line.  A woman wearing one of those convention badges was in a snit.  She accused the tattooed clerk of being "cavalier".  I wondered if she employed this description to show her superiority.  After all, it wasn’t his fault. At least that’s what he ultimately told me, five minutes [...]

E-Mail Of The Day...
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:44:44 +0000
From: Joe Weinstein    Subject: Re: The Millennium Trilogy ha! i was just about to curse you for torturing me.  i read plays w fire a couple weeks ago while in southern thailand.  just yesterday i ran into a couple women from estonia who are staying at the same hotel as i in sri lanka.  one of [...]
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