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MXP4 - Engaging Gimmick or Pointless New Format?
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HypeBot
The music industry is in a desperate search for new ways to re-engage fans to the point where they are willing to hit the buy button. Most recently we learned that Apple is exploring a new interactive album format code named “Cocktail" and WMG's Rhino is releasing a series of digital 45's with bonus content.
Another attempt comes from MXP4 whose interactive music technology, the album files (first in widget
form) incorporates multiple tracks, liner notes, video, images, news, ...
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Study Shows Promise of Ad Supported Music
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HypeBot
A “TEMPO Digital Music Discovery & Purchase Process" report from Ipsos MediaCT shows that ad supported music services and in particular MySpace Music may offer hope for frustrated rights holders trying to find a way - any way - to monetize music.
Consumers describe their current music habits as:
When respondents were asked to imagine a world without P2P, their habits shifted: The 39% that MySpace Music ...
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When the World is Your Stage....
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HypeBot
Globalization Opens New Doors For Niche Artists For decades music executives and even artists themselves have shied away from many musical niches because their potential audience was too small to achieve an acceptable level of success. But now. with the global marketing and sales reach offered by the int coupled with affordable world travel, is any niche really too small to find audience? While certainly not as small as some musical niches, ...
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The Biggest Industry Mistakes of the Digital Age
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HypeBot
Audioholics has composed a list of its favorite corporate and industry-specific “disasters" and the music industry proudly made the list in two places.
The Largest Music Retailer Is A Computer Company - Why did the music labels and an entire industry sit on its laurels and allow a computer company to innovate and develop the largest resource for online music? Perhaps because, like a lumbering shipping vessel, the labels, used to bullying around an entire industry of artists, distributors and ...Continue Reading
Coda, a New Music Venue & Restaurant, Opens in San Francisco
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Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
Chris Pastena and Bruce Hanson announce the opening of Coda, a new music venue and restaurant at 1710 Mission Street at Duboce Avenue in the Mission District of San Francisco. Coda, a musical term meaning the place you return to, is an intimate 70-seat restaurant and 200-person venue. Opening Tuesday, August 4, Coda will present dinner and music six nights a week. Adam Theis and the Jazz Mafia will perform on opening night, beginning a weekly Tuesday residency. Coda will ...
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Where You Make Music Does Matter
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HypeBot
music & the entertainment economy I've written before about how where you make music may matter more than you'd think it might in a globally connected world. It's not just the size of the music industry where an artist as located that matters. In fact, more important appears to be the size of the music scene measured by both the number of musicians and fans. They both provide the feedback that helps an artist create better music; and great music ...
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Jazz and Tourism Can Go Hand-in-Hand
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
In a year when more than a few jazz-related entities have been on the ropes, closed their doors or reinvented themselves, it is interesting to see that the aura of jazz remains alive and well.The hipness, the essence of cool, the going against the grain, a music that doesn't appeal to our least-common-denominator culture has always been a branding hook for advertisers.Now, Massachusetts is hoping jazz can help promote tourism in the commonwealth.A new ...
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Jackson Doctor Injected Drug That Killed Him
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Michael Ricci
A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation into Michael Jackson's death says the pop star's personal doctor administered the powerful drug that authorities believe killed him.
Jackson regularly received the anesthetic propofol (PROH'-puh-fahl) to go to sleep. The official, who requested anonymity because the probe is ongoing, told The Associated Press today that Dr. Conrad Murray gave Jackson the drug the last night of his life.
Michael Jackson 911 call: 'He's not breathing' Jackson's personal doctor ...
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