Apple is negotiating with the recors labels to give purchasers of a premium iPod unlimited access to iTunes. Pretty cool stuff but a Hypebot commentary calling the idea bad for the music industry drew lots of discussion.
Warner Music Group renewed the multi-million $ contracts of record executives Edgar Bronfman and Lyor Cohen thru 2013. Hypebot […]
SpiralFrog (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal ad-supported music site is offering a chance to win $5,000 in concert tickets with a new sweepstakes launching today. Whether you want to see Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige, Rascal Flatts, The Hives, Sugarland, Maroon 5 or The New York Philharmonic or even all of them, you can if […]
Though the do-it-yourself attitude has long been a staple of the punk community, more and more artists are taking matters into their own hands. With the future of the music industry in question, some bands have decided to do away with signing to a label altogether, and have found just as much–if not more–success on […]
With ad dollars and attention shifting to the web, three more great music magazines have announced they will cease publication:
R.I.P.
HARP
NO DEPRESSION
RESONANCE
And music magazine FADER is adding online March 26th with the newest online quarterly edition of its F2 series. Available as a free download on iTunes and at TheFADER.com, F2 is a music-driven digital publication […]
The popular rockumentary “Dig” immortalized the Brian Jonestown Massacre as a band of extremely talented musicians who, because of drugs or ego, never found the popularity many felt they deserved. They’ve always been intriguing, however, because their music is good enough to look past the sideshow antics. “Yeah-Yeah,”, from their new album My Bloody Underground […]
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Since radio sucks, what’s on the airplay charts doesn’t matter. And if everyone’s grabbing tracks free on the net, sales charts are irrelevent too. So how do you measure what bands are hottest at any given moment? How can you find out how your favorite bands measure up in popularity against your […]
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