Music Industry News

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Source: HypeBot
March 25, 2010

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Steve Belkin Joins Innervision Records as General Manager

Source: GoMedia PR
March 24, 2010

Music industry veteran Steve Belkin has been named as General Manager of the Aliso Viejo, California-based label Innervision Records and Entertainment, as announced by label VP of A&R and Promotion, Adam Leibovitz.

Belkin brings some three decades of experience in all areas of the music business to the GM post, including work in marketing, sales and distribution and artist management. A musician and songwriter in his own right, Belkin will continue to operate Open All Nite Entertainment, his management, marketing ...

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Philly Music-Makers Mull Museum at Torched Offices

Source: All About Jazz
March 24, 2010

Longtime R&B record producers Leon Huff and Kenneth Gamble are considering whether to rebuild their fire-damaged offices into a music museum, the duo said Tuesday just hours after the man accused of setting the blaze was ordered to stand trial. Testimony and surveillance video shown at a preliminary hearing convinced a judge that Christopher Cimini should be tried on charges including arson and burglary in the Feb. 21 fire that destroyed Philadelphia International Records. The music label, which produced dozens ...

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NARM White Paper Explores Digital Music's Technical Challenges

Source: HypeBot
March 24, 2010

NARM and its Digital Think Tank have just released “Digital Supply Chain & Operations" which explores operational issues facing the music industry as it transitions to digital. The report takes on the uber-technical issues the surround the accurate and efficient delivery of music and related metadata. If you've ever tried to clean up you mp3 collection much less move an album from one digital distributor to another on iTunes, you begin to understand it's importance.

“Accurate and efficient ...

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EMI Tries to Pawn Catalog to Stop Citi Takeover

Source: HypeBot
March 23, 2010

EMI is in serious talks with other labels to manage its most valuable asset - a deep catalog including The Beatles, Pink Foyd, Blondie and more - in exchange for the $600 million USD that it needs to stop a takeover by lender Citi.

The deal would reportedly run for five years, though sources say that interested parties want more time to recoup. Universal reportedly go the first call from EMI, but Sony and Warner Music are now in the ...

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Court: Widow Owns 'King of the Road' Copyright

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2010

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The widow of country music legend Roger Miller has won a protracted legal battle over the rights to some of his biggest hits, including “King of the Road."

A federal judge ruled last week that Mary Miller and Roger Miller Music, Inc. own the copyrights to the songs the artist published in 1964. Those songs also include: “Dang Me," “Chug-A-Lug and “You can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd." U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes also in ...

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Witness: Michael Jackson Doctor Interrupted CPR

Source: All About Jazz
March 23, 2010

Michael Jackson's doctor halted CPR on the dying pop star and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press that shed new light on the singer's chaotic final moments.

The explosive allegation that Dr. Conrad Murray may have tried to hide evidence is likely to be a focus as prosecutors move ahead with their involuntary manslaughter case against him.

The account was given to investigators by Alberto Alvarez, ...

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Prosecutors Want Michael Jackson's Doctor's License Suspended

Source: Michael Ricci
March 23, 2010

California prosecutors filed court papers seeking to suspend the medical license of Dr. Conrad Murray, who was charged last month in the death of Michael Jackson. When Murray was charged, the judge agreed he should be barred from administering anesthetics like the ones prosecutors said killed the pop star last year when he was in Murray's care. But now, California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown wants Murray to stop practicing medicine as part of the terms of his bail. The move ...

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