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News: Recording

Ray Lamontagne: Live - Fall 2010 EP

December 16, 2010

5 SONG EP OUT EXCLUSIVELY ON ITUNES DECEMBER 21 Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs' will release Live—Fall 2010, a five song EP, exclusively through iTunes on December 21, 2010. Live—Fall 2010 will include three songs from the Grammy nominated, God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise. Today, VEVO will premiere a two song performance of ...

News: Video / DVD

Watch Bruce Springsteen: Songs from the Promise Live

December 16, 2010

THE BOSS LIVE IN ASBURY PARK PERFORMING SONGS FROM THE PROMISE Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed a rare concert event last week in Asbury Park, New Jersey's historic Carousel House, playing never-before performed songs live from the new 2-CD set, The Promise. Beginning today, five songs from the show will stream online. The ...

News: Music Industry

Levon Helm Hospitalized; Full Recovery Expected

December 16, 2010

GET WELL LEVON Levon Helm was hospitalized in New York City on Saturday with a cold, but is expected to make a full recovery and be released within the next few days. Speaking to the Poughkeepsie Journal, Helm's manager Barbara O'Brien said “Levon came down with a little bit of a cold this week and because ...

News: Technology

Echo Nest CEO Explains How New MTV Music Meter Will Help Indie Artists

December 16, 2010

MTV has partnered with Echo Nest to develop products that will to enable better music discovery. First up is the MTV Music Meter chart that which searches blogs, social media and traditional metrics like radio and sales to determine which artists are getting the most attention. But unlike Billboards new Social 50 and Big Champagne's Ulitimate ...

News: Music Industry

Google Ready to Give Music Labels Tens of Millions of $'s, Deals to Buy Rhapsody or Spotify Off

December 16, 2010

Google is reportedly offering to pay the record labels tens of millions of dollars in advances so they'll sign off on a Google Music service. For now, the focus is on a Google online music locker, but a Spotify or Rhapsody style streaming service will follow. Google's in house music technology lawyer Elizabeth Moody has just ...

News: Music Industry

MusixShare Helps Support Social Causes with Music

December 16, 2010

MusixShare is a brand-new startup that enables artists to pair up with social causes. When fans purchase music through the site, a portion of that sale goes to a designated cause or charity. As well, artists can come together to create digital cause compilations. This way, both artists and fans can collaborate to support timely and ...

News: Music Industry

1,000,000th Band Joins ReverbNation

December 16, 2010

Late last night, ReverbNation registered their 1 millionth artist to the platform. To celebrate this event, the staff at the company are rewarding the Latin group PANA! with a package of free services and merchandise. Having launched in 2006, ReverbNation considers this to be an important milestone for the company. Why have they been so successful? ...

News: Opinion

If You Share a 30 Second Song Sample on My Facebook Wall, We're No Longer Friends.

December 16, 2010

We're all well aware that Facebook lacks music functionality. Music WithMe is a music app, recently upgraded, that seeks to circumvent this situation. Trouble is that Music WithMe does a terrible job at it. If you don't use iTunes, the app is useless. If you haven't yet downloaded the song that you desire to share, the ...

News: Interview

Interview with CEO of LyricFind: On "Lyrics for Free" and Fighting Lyric Pirates One Site at a Time

December 16, 2010

Recently, I spoke with Darryl Ballantyne, who is CEO of LyricFind, a legal lyric solution provider. In part one of this interview with Ballantyne, he talks about recent developments at his company and the challenges of disrupting lyric pirates. Hypebot: How will your “Lyrics For Free" option be helpful in relation to curving lyric piracy? Darryl ...

News: Trends

The Unfamiliar Sound of Competition

December 16, 2010

Bruce Warila gives his expertise on upcoming changes in competition and pricing for songs and how these changes will affect the music industry. Many music consumers are affected by price and want the greatest value at the lowest price. Bruce goes on to discuss exposure and 360 deals. He writes, “There's a clash coming between legacy ...