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News: Recording

Los Lonely Boys: Acoustic Live Album

September 1, 2010

NEW ALBUM CAPTURES MOMENTS FROM THE “ACOUSTIC BROTHERHOOD" TOUR On September 28, Grammy-winners Los Lonely Boys will release Keep On Giving: Acoustic Live!. The high-energy album captures the most inspired moments from the multi-platinum band's recent “Acoustic Brotherhood" tour, including collaborations with fellow Texans Alejandro Escovedo and Carrie Rodriguez. The band will embark on a U.S. ...

News: Performance / Tour

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: Robots Announce Fall Tour

September 1, 2010

THOSE AUTOMATONS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT! Our mechanical friends can be helpful or scary and, in this instance, serious jazz heads who dig the new Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey album, Stay Gold, and plan to catch the band on the road this fall. JFJO Fall Stay Gold Tour ...

News: Interview

Interview: Rob Macarthur of Ioumusic (Part Two)

September 1, 2010

Kyle Bylin: Artists too, those of the old and new digital sphere, share in this certain degree of dichotomy in their attitudes toward new technology and their willingness to integrate it into their careers. Why must artists embrace as much chaos as they can stand with new technology and let it transform their role as cultural ...

News: Music Industry

How to Launch a Music Startup: Establishing Key Metrics

September 1, 2010

This post is part of the How To Launch a Music Startup series by Brenden Mulligan, which focuses on building a company that creates online products for musicians. Mulligan founded ArtistData, which was recently acquired by Sonicbids, and can be found on Twitter at @bmull. Before starting this series off, I thought it'd be useful to ...

News: Technology

Want a Global Hit? Spend More Time on Facebook.

September 1, 2010

Social networks are hugley popular in the US, but they are rapidly becoming even more so in other markets. According to Nielsen, the social network and blog category reached 74% of active internet users in the US but in Italy the number was 74% and Brazil 86% of active internet users in Brazil spent significant time ...

News: Technology

Why Stevie Nicks is Still Wrong (Part Two)

September 1, 2010

Let's review: Last week, famed Fleetwood Mac front-woman Stevie Nicks said a few provocative statements about the impact of the Internet on rock music and expressed her concern about how the proliferation of digital technologies has robbed our children of their social graces and driven them to no longer hang out. As we found out, even ...

News: Technology

DRM Tech Provider Intertrust Buys Seeqpod Assets

September 1, 2010

DRM technology provider Intertrust Technologies Corporatiohas has acquired all the software and patents developed by SeeqPod. via a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy proceeding. Intertrust has not acquired the Seeqpod domain name. Seeqpod shut down its then popular music search and play site in 2009 after several major labels and rightsholders filed lawsuits alledging copyright infringement. The search ...

News: Economics

Universal Music Group Spends $840,000 in Just Three Months on Lobbying

September 1, 2010

Universal Music spent $840,000 in Q2 to lobby the US federal government, according to documents filed on July 20th. UMG lobbyists focuced their efforts on Congress, the Office of Management and Budget, the FCC and other government agencies to fight piracy and a push to require broadcast radio to pay performance royalties. In the same quarter ...

News: Technology

MySpace Now Syncs Updates to Facebook

September 1, 2010

While it's quite nice of MySpace to extend users the ability to sync their pages with their Facebook profiles I'm not sure if Facebook will be extending them the same gratitude anytime soon. In a series of moves to ease the use and relevance of their social network, MySpace is now letting users update their Facebook ...

News: Festival

Initial CMJ Artist Line-up Announced, Early Registration Discounts End Today

September 1, 2010

Early bird registration discounts for the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival 2010 end at midnight tonight August 31st. You can register here. And while more bands will be announced in the coming weeks, here's the initial lineup of showcases: DeVotchKa Surfer Blood Two Door Cinema Club School of Seven Bells Bad Books (feat. Kevin Devine ...