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Music Retail Can Be Saved - If We Act Fast

January 18, 2011

Music retail can be saved. The way to save it is to encourage more outlets to open up. We're not talking about starting more digital download stores like Amazon MP3, Wal-Mart, or the up-and-coming Google Music. No, we're talking about allowing more independent outlets to emerge. To save music retail, as many niche sites as possible need ...

News: Technology

We7 Makes First Move out of UK, Enters Ireland

January 18, 2011

UK music streaming service we7 launched in Ireland today. This is their first move outside of the UK since their founding in 2008. Users will be able to create personal radio stations and request songs for free. As well, for 4.99 a month, they will gain access to on-demand streams and lose the advertizing. For 9.99, ...

News: Technology

How To: Engage Fans on Twitter Like Snoop Dogg

January 18, 2011

This post is by Hypebot intern Hisham Dahud. His Twitter: @HishamDahud. As a Hypebot reader, you're undoubtedly informed on the importance of artist-fan relationships and how Twitter has broken down the walls between the artist and the fan by keeping each one at arm's length from another. Yet still, many artists I know refuse to enter the ...

News: Music Industry

Sony, Universal Plan "Instant" Singles to Beat Pirates

January 18, 2011

In a reversal of a decades old marketing strategy, Sony and Universal will begin putting new singles for sale as downloads on the same day that they are released to radio. The new policy, which the labels hope will encourage younger users to pay for a new song rather than grab it free, is being implemented ...

News: Interview

A Future Where Everyone is a Music Maker - How Apps Will Change Cultural Creation [interview]

January 18, 2011

Recently, I spoke with Suzanne Lainson, who is a marketing strategist who has worked with sports, tech, and music companies, and currently writes about the future of the music industry for the Brands Pus Music blog. In this interview, she talks about the future of music apps and how they'll shape music culture. Hypebot: What do ...

News: Technology

Full Text of Steve Jobs Letter to Apple Staff as He Takes New Medical Leave of Absence

January 18, 2011

(Updated) In a major blow even for a company flying so high, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has stepped away from day to day operations citing health reasons much as he did in January 2009. While he will continue as CEO, the Board have passed the day to day responsibility for running the Apple to COO Tim ...

News: Music Industry

Is That Jazz?

January 18, 2011

The Seattle Composers' Salon is pleased to announce the third-annual IS THAT JAZZ? music festival taking place the last two weekends in January (Fri-21, Sat-22, Fri-28, Sat-29) in Seattle, Washington. The festival will feature four inspired evenings with eight compelling performances at an exquisite space for listening to music, the Chapel Performance Space. IS THAT JAZZ? ...

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News: Recording

Not Only Cats Love Jazz

January 18, 2011

Cats make jazz and love jazz. In the case of loving jazz, so do mice. Well, at least one mouse in particular. Next month, a Walt Disney Records imprint, Disney Pearl Series, will release Disney Jazz Volume 1: Everybody Wants to Be a Cat. It's a 13-track collection of popular songs from the soundtracks of Disney ...

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News: Recording

In Praise of Todd Rundgren: Pioneer, Pop Star, Fabulously Weird

January 18, 2011

By Something Else Reviews Perhaps Todd Rungren's own restive muse—he's dabbled in every major rock subgenre over the past four decades—simply makes him too difficult to categorize. Maybe Rundgren never stuck with one thing long enough. Somehow, this pop music maverick hasn't consistently found the wider fame he so richly deserves. At least outside of our ...

News: Recording

Bradford Monk - Bradford Monk and the Foggy Hogtown Boys (2011)

January 18, 2011

By Nick DeRiso Inspired by a record-release performance by the Toronto-based Foggy Hogtown Boys, fellow Canadian Bradford Monk decided to compose a traditional bluegrass recording. By that, he didn't mean sped-up country songs. He meant honest-to-goodness, real-deal bluegrass—done the old-fashioned way, with no winking irony or next-gen updates. His singular focus has paid rich dividends. Their ...