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Once upon a time, in the pre-digital analog world of yesterday, people bought albums at brick-and-mortar establishments known as "record stores" and purchased their concert tickets at .... You guessed it – record stores. But with record stores struggling to keep the lights on and ticket sales moving increasingly into the online arena, .... (08/11) ReadYou may also like
Musician Jay's music is given life after his death
WalesOnline | 30/06/08 
A YOUNG musician is to release an album from beyond the grave.
Singer-songwriter Matthew Jay, who drew comparisons with folk legend Nick Drake, died ... More
Can bad TV save a bad music career?
Times Colonist | 23/06/08
Janet Jackson will soon be roaming the backstreets and church choirs of America on the hunt for "the next big thing" in pop. Naturally, it's all for ... More
Cops on song, criminals face the music
Times of India | 11/05/08
Tirhut range DIG Arvind Pandey does not find fighting crime and music contradictory. "A recent report in America suggests that music makes police officers ... More
When DRM detonates your music collection
Timesonline | 11/05/08
Imagine if you had a bedroom full of CDs and decided to buy a new player one day, only to discover that none of your albums would play on the new system. ... More
Amazon's CreateSpace Puts Out-Of-Print Music Back On The Market
InformationWeek | 06/05/08
CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), on Monday expanded its print-on-demand CD publishing service in an effort to put an end to the concept ... More
Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album
Wired News | 02/05/08 
Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ... Read
Thom Yorke: Radiohead's stunt was 'one-off'
The Globe and Mail | 01/05/08
They turned the music sales model on its head, but indie rockers Radiohead won't be repeating their decision to let fans choose what to pay for their ... Read
“American Idol” Contestant David Cook Tops Amazon MP3 Chart, Then Vanishes
Rolling Stone | 23/04/08
After enjoying last week as the top-selling album at the Amazon MP3 store, American Idol contestant David Cook's 2006 album Analog Heart was pulled from ... Read
Anti-Piracy Voice-Overs to Prevent CDs from Leaking
Torrentfreak | 16/01/08
This is the message printed on the cover of protected CDs. Most filesharers are probably familiar with the “for your consideration” messages displayed ... Read
Radiohead top UK album chart
The Register | 07/01/08
Radiohead's In Rainbows has climbed straight to the top of the UK album chart in the week following its physical release on CD and vinyl, apparently proving ... Read
Reznor Reveals Sales On Saul Williams Project
Billboard | 05/01/08
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has posted the download and sales numbers for "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust" the Saul Williams ... Read
Yorke Addresses EMI Renegotiation Report
Billboard | 01/01/08
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has responded to a report that his band demanded an exorbitant advance from EMI for its next album as well as control of ... Read
Freed OiNK Admin Posts Google Link to Music Sharing Alternatives
Wired News | 30/10/07
The site administrator of OiNK.cd, having been released from custody after his arrest last week for running a torrent tracker site that specialized in ... Read
Chavez releases his first CD
Novosti | 02/10/07
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has released his first CD of traditional Venezuelan and Mexican music, entitled Canciones de Siempre or Songs for all ... Read
Nine Inch Nails' Open Source Remix Album Available as Free Torrent
Wired News | 11/09/07
Over the past few months, "multiple judges" at 9inchnails.com listened to over 200 submissions to the Nine Inch Nails open source remix contest and the ... Read
Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks
Timesonline | 16/06/08
Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young ... More
Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales
Reuters | 07/06/08
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ... More
The music biz's digital flops - a short history
The Register | 26/05/08
Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ... More
New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music
The Korea Times | 23/05/08
If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ... More
DRM claims more victims as Microsoft fails its music users
The Guardian | 23/04/08
DRM (Digital Rights Management) added to music is a really bad idea and you should never buy DRM-protected files, unless you have more money than sense ... Read
“American Idol” Contestant David Cook Tops Amazon MP3 Chart, Then Vanishes
Rolling Stone | 23/04/08
After enjoying last week as the top-selling album at the Amazon MP3 store, American Idol contestant David Cook's 2006 album Analog Heart was pulled from ... Read
MP3sparks.com downed by links to Russian cybercrime gang
The Register | 11/01/08
The popular Russian digital music retailer MP3sparks.com has scored a own goal by doing business with a web host that has been linked to an infamous cybercrime ... Read
Digital Music Industry Challenged to Follow Fans' Lead
PC World | 10/01/08
At the Consumer Electronics Show this year it's clear that consumers are making choices that are driving industry changes, and nowhere is that more evident ... Read
DiMA, Publishers Clash Over Rights
Billboard | 08/01/08
A major battle is erupting between some digital media companies and major music publishers, which may lead to federal litigation, Billboard.biz has learned. ... Read
Mainstream music industry realizes the value of 'free'
International Herald Tribune | 27/01/08
The mainstream music industry is coming to recognize a price for digital songs that might be good enough to compete with the underground exchange of tunes ... Read
Warner Music profits slump 58%
Timesonline | 29/11/07
Warner Music Group today unveiled a 58 per cent slump in fourth-quarter profits, with increased digital revenues failing to offset a collapse in sales ... Read
Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM
Business Week | 04/01/08
In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection ... Read
7Digital Gets Agressive With Pricing & Features.
Hypebot | 06/12/07
UK digital retailer 7Digital is pushing aggressive pricing as well as new features and alliances designed to challenge iTunes and other retailers. The ... Read
The DRM maze for consumers
BBC | 11/12/07
The last few years in the history of digital content are littered with examples of Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions that have been accused of ... Read
Ukulele superstar lets the music breathe
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. | 16/06/08
Jake Shimabukuro travels great distances from his childhood home in Honolulu, but he packs light. "I don't have a lot to carry," he says, while on the ... More
Music breaks chains in North West Pakistan
Freemuse | 22/05/08
On a short notice a large number of music and heritage lovers throng Sethi House that evening. They were as thrilled as they have found a very precious ... More
RIAA wiped off the net
The Register | 21/01/08
A lack of security controls allowed hackers to "wipe" the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) website on Sunday. The existence of an ... Read
Music in China: The Inside Story
The Register | 02/11/07
How To Do Business In China, China CEO, The New Chinese Consumer... my shelves here in Beijing are stacked full of such books, all trying to throw some ... Read
Radiohead Enter The World Of Insect Films!
Gigwise | 22/11/07
Seemingly spurred on by the song's lyrics (“I am a moth who wants to share your light / I'm an insect Trying to get out of the dark”), the film features ... Read
Apple, Samsung, Sandisk sued over MP3
Macworld | 02/03/07
Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies is taking on Apple, Samsung Electronics Co and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit. The suit, which came to ... Read
Band Wants Paris Hilton To 'Go Away'
CMJ | 04/05/07
Citizens For A Better America, a band that was created for the sole purpose to ridicule Paris Hilton, has hit it big with their first single "Go Away ... Read
Chelo's the guy who put a new wiggle out there
The Star | 19/09/06
Every few years you get one of those irresistible, guilty pleasure Latin pop songs that seem to get the whole country wiggling in a giddy inter-cultural ... Read
Digital archive plans gain EU support
Hollywood Reporter | 17/11/06
European Union culture ministers have backed plans to transform Europe's massive film and broadcast archives into digital form and make them available ... Read
Was Madonna's Live Earth guitar solo real?
Telegraph | 11/07/07
Debate is raging on internet message boards over whether Madonna's "rocking" Live Earth performance owed more to technical wizadry than musical talent.
Madonna ... Read
Baidu partners up for music service
Variety Asia | 30/06/08
Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site Baidu has announced a partnership with three ... More
All That Jazz doing fine despite doom in music industry
Steamboat Pilot & Today | 30/06/08
For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ... More
Music beneath my feet
The Financial Express | 23/06/08
Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ... More
Warner Tells Kid Rock To Denounce File Sharing; He Denounces Warner Instead
Techdirt | 19/06/08
While Warner Music had claimed that it was getting away from attacking fans who wanted to download, it appears that it still has a long way to go. Atlantic ... More
Music, sex and murder
Jamaica Gleaner | 16/06/08
Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ... More
Some retailers give vinyl records a spin
GoErie.com | 16/06/08
It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release ... More
'Nashville Star' lassos NBC
The Arizona Republic | 09/06/08
John Rich, half of the country music sensation Big & Rich, achieved stardom the old-fashioned way: He earned it.
The Texas native, with pal Kenny Alphin, ... More
Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales
Reuters | 07/06/08
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ... More
A new harmony for music labels, TV
Los Angeles Times | 07/06/08
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ... More
Idol Dominates Charts: Is This The Day The Music Died?
Hypebot | 30/05/08
No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ... More
The music biz's digital flops - a short history
The Register | 26/05/08
Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ... More
Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music
Gizmodo | 18/05/08
I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ... More
The Cistercian monks being groomed for music stardom
Timesonline | 18/05/08
Within minutes of arriving at the monastery in the Vienna Forest, I see a clutch of men wearing lederhosen, while an oompah band tunes up for the May Day ... More
Music City can turn a citified girl into a country-hummin' gal
Kansascity.com | 18/05/08
The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ... More
IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa
TorrentFreak | 11/05/08
The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ... More
Music execs stuck in old time rock'n'roll
The Guardian | 11/05/08
It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ... More
Collectors record Jamaica's music history
Jamaica Gleaner | 11/05/08
Some persons capture special moments on film, others in personal memories, but for some a good record can take them back into that golden moment. Record ... More
Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands
Timesonline | 04/05/08
Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More
Stevie Wonder gives Taste-y performance
Chicago Sun-Times | 30/06/08
Saturday afternoon Stevie Wonder returned to Taste of Chicago with a concert that was generous, adventurous, populist, humorous and amorous.
"A lot ... More
Mandela concert offered music, recruited new warriors
Detroit Free Press | 30/06/08
Some moments in history are great when they happen: an inaugural speech, a call to dream, a final farewell from a television icon who has told you for ... More
Estonians Fight for Their Freedom Through Music
redOrbit | 23/06/08
As a nation that spent many decades under the constant watch of Soviet Russia, singing was an expression of a culture that refused to be crushed. It was ... More
Ending on a high note - just not a high C
Ottawa Citizen | 11/05/08
Twenty minutes before our concert last week I was trying to calm myself with judicious decisions: which notes to skip and where to drain the spit?
We'd ... More
Music biz lawyers wary of labels' new grab
Reuters | 29/12/07
Like it or not, major record companies are expected to continue drafting their artist contracts so that labels share a piece of most -- if not all -- of ... Read
Why modlife / Angels & Airwaves have a right music model
Philgalland's Weblog | 18/04/08
Modlife is interactive website for fans of the band Angels & Airwaves (created by Tom Delonge, former lead singer of punk-rock band blink182). People who ... Read
Macca's marriage split cost him £1.5m already
La Libre | 29/08/06
Sir Paul McCartney is donating £1.6 million to a landmine charity after pulling out of a fundraising event he was due to host with his estranged ... Read
Led Zep, YouTube, and a Broken Record from Warner Music
Portfolio.com | 12/12/07
As we report on Portfolio.com today, within hours of Led Zeppelin's historic reunion concert in London on Monday, fans in attendance started posting videos ... Read
Concert sites slam agency's levy
Telegraph | 05/12/07
Band managers behind 400 artists from Robbie Williams to Radiohead and KT Tunstall have formed a new rights society that hopes to collect a slug of the ... Read
Jamiroquai Takes it To the Skies
The Jaunted | 02/03/07
Funk rockers Jamiroquai (you know, the future - virtual insanity...) are having a tough time getting gigs these days apparently. The band just played a ... Read
Historic buildings at risk from rock concerts
The Guardian | 14/09/07
Rock concerts at some of the UK's most important historic buildings have put them at risk of damage from powerful bass note vibrations, according to research ... Read
The Pirate Bay Introduces Music Discovery Feature
Torrentfreak | 30/11/07
If you click on show detailed artist info on a torrent page it will show a list of similar artists, other albums from the same artist, upcoming concerts ... Read
Beyonce to cover up for Malaysian concert
Khaleej Times | 03/09/07
Just weeks after US singer Gwen Stefani covered up for a concert in Malaysia amid a furore over revealing outfits, her compatriot Beyonce is facing similar ... Read
The daily cicada concert: Is it music?
Wednesday Journal | 06/06/07
Seventeen summers ago I was hanging out in Iowa City, sweating through grad school, and too engrossed in my work to care much about the periodical cicada ... Read
Hannah Montana: Music Jam
ABC News | 29/11/07
If you are looking for an alternative to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert series, the new video game "Hannah Montana: Music Jam" may be just the ticket ... Read
Baidu partners up for music service
Variety Asia | 30/06/08
Faced with mounting pressure from international music orgs over alleged piracy, China's top web search site Baidu has announced a partnership with three ... More
All That Jazz doing fine despite doom in music industry
Steamboat Pilot & Today | 30/06/08
For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ... More
Music beneath my feet
The Financial Express | 23/06/08
Ever wondered what this underground music is, which is spreading like wildfire? Does it constitute Bollywood or is it just independent artists that we ... More
Music, sex and murder
Jamaica Gleaner | 16/06/08
Like businesses, countries have their competitive advantages, things for which they have a particular propensity. And what Jamaica excels at, or at least ... More
'Nashville Star' lassos NBC
The Arizona Republic | 09/06/08
John Rich, half of the country music sensation Big & Rich, achieved stardom the old-fashioned way: He earned it.
The Texas native, with pal Kenny Alphin, ... More
Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales
Reuters | 07/06/08
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ... More
A new harmony for music labels, TV
Los Angeles Times | 07/06/08
It's the sobering reality of today's music business -- a record company executive can sign a new act and then tell her, "Keep your day job."
That ... More
The music biz's digital flops - a short history
The Register | 26/05/08
Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ... More
Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music
Gizmodo | 18/05/08
I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ... More
The Cistercian monks being groomed for music stardom
Timesonline | 18/05/08
Within minutes of arriving at the monastery in the Vienna Forest, I see a clutch of men wearing lederhosen, while an oompah band tunes up for the May Day ... More
Music City can turn a citified girl into a country-hummin' gal
Kansascity.com | 18/05/08
The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ... More
IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa
TorrentFreak | 11/05/08
The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ... More
Music execs stuck in old time rock'n'roll
The Guardian | 11/05/08
It is May 9 1996, and you are a Senior Executive at a Very Big Record Label, in charge of Future Developments. This "internet" thing is being talked ... More
When DRM detonates your music collection
Timesonline | 11/05/08
Imagine if you had a bedroom full of CDs and decided to buy a new player one day, only to discover that none of your albums would play on the new system. ... More
Collectors record Jamaica's music history
Jamaica Gleaner | 11/05/08
Some persons capture special moments on film, others in personal memories, but for some a good record can take them back into that golden moment. Record ... More
Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands
Timesonline | 04/05/08
Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More
All That Jazz doing fine despite doom in music industry
Steamboat Pilot & Today | 30/06/08
For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ... More
Some retailers give vinyl records a spin
GoErie.com | 16/06/08
It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release ... More
IFPI Advises Kids to Use LimeWire and Kazaa
TorrentFreak | 11/05/08
The campaign's leaflet (pdf) is distributed through schools and colleges, libraries, record stores, teaching portals and websites in 21 countries. It ... More
“American Idol” Contestant David Cook Tops Amazon MP3 Chart, Then Vanishes
Rolling Stone | 23/04/08
After enjoying last week as the top-selling album at the Amazon MP3 store, American Idol contestant David Cook's 2006 album Analog Heart was pulled from ... Read
Apple to Resolve EU Case on ITunes Prices, People Say
Bloomberg | 09/01/08
Apple Inc., the maker of the best- selling iPod media players, will settle European Union claims that its policy of varying prices at its iTunes music ... Read
Apple Ends Beatles Dispute, Paving Way for Music Deal
Bloomberg | 06/02/07
Apple Inc. ended a legal dispute with the Beatles over rights to use the Apple name and logos, potentially clearing the way for the company to distribute ... Read
Nation's No. 1 Music Retailer Realizing That Selling CDs Is Not Very Profitable
Idolator | 24/04/07
The Dangerfieldian profile of the brick-and-mortar music business is getting bigger, as Wal-Mart--the No. 1 music retailer in the US, as far as units sold--has ... Read
Branson sells Virgin music stores
BBC | 17/09/07
The deal, whose value has not been disclosed, will see Virgin's 125 UK and Irish Megastores rebranded as Zavvi. The business will continue to be run by ... Read
Imeem Pioneers Free Music With Ads
The New York Times | 30/10/07
Is Imeem the next iTunes? Imeem is a social network site with a heavy emphasis on music. I have no reason to believe that it will become as important as ... Read
Brick-and-mortar stores eye new music formats
Reuters | 29/10/07
The music industry continues to build bridges between the digital and physical world. In the latest attempts, iTunes digital download album cards highlighting ... Read
Apple Launches the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
PCWorld | 06/09/07
In addition to overhauling its iPod line-up, Apple also launched the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, a new service for iPod and iPhone users. When accessed from ... Read
Deutsche Grammophon Launches Classical Download Site
Billboard | 27/11/07
Classical music giant Deutsche Grammophon will make the bulk of its catalog available online from tomorrow when it relaunches its Website and presses the ... Read
Disney site music to parents' ears?
The Indianapolis Star | 22/05/07
Looking to profit directly from the growing market for music downloads, Disney has launched an online store for kid-focused singles, albums and music videos. ... Read
Apple Meets iTunes EU Deadline, Universal Wins Extension
Billboard | 22/06/07
Apple met last night's deadline to respond to the European Commission's antitrust concerns over the pricing of its iTunes online music store, officials ... Read
Amazon.com Launches 'Go Indie' Music Store
Assodigitale | 20/04/07
Amazon.com today announced today announced it has joined forces with more than 30 independent music labels to launch "Go Indie," a new section in its ... Read
Metro music is refreshing
Rediff.com | 27/03/07
At a local music store, most of the shelves under the 'New releases' category are occupied by CDs and cassettes of Anurag Basu's new offering, Metro. ... Read
Latin music download store allows advertisers to tap into the hispanic market for $2.00
Music Industry News Network | 05/09/06
Musica360, the download store specializing in independent latin music, has just introduced phase two of it's advertiser subsidized program allowing potential ... Read