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News: Performance / Tour

Gov't Mule: Raleigh Date Rescheduled, in-Store, iPhone App

July 22, 2010

DATE RESCHEDULED FOR JULY 26; IN-STORE APPEARANCE TO PROMOTE MULENNIUM Gov't Mule The Gov't Mule concert scheduled to take place at the Raleigh Amphitheater on July 16 has been rescheduled for July 26. Tickets purchased for the July 16 concert will be honored night of show on July 26. The original concert, this past Friday, needed ...

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News: Recording

Guster: Easy Wonderful

July 22, 2010

EASY WONDERFUL OUT OCTOBER 5; FREE DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE; TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED Guster Guster will release their highly anticipated new album, Easy Wonderful October 5 on Aware/Universal Republic Records. The follow up to 2006's Ganging Up On The Sun contains twelve tracks described as “simultaneously adventurous pop and classic Guster." Check out the track list below. 1. ...

News: Technology

Update: Netflix Profits up as It Shifts into Streaming

July 22, 2010

Netflix continued to improve, gaining subscribers for the quarter and recording healthy profits and revenue. The percentage of its customers who watched streaming video also skyrocketed, evidence that the company's shift toward streaming is on target. Netflix reported net income of $43.5 million for the second quarter of 2010, on revenue of $519.8 million. Net income ...

News: Technology

Google Buys Green Energy

July 22, 2010

Google has announced on its blog that the company has entered into a 20-year green Power Purchase Agreement with a windfarm in Iowa. The deal includes 114 megawatts of wind power from the NextEra Energy Resources facility in Story County, Iowa, at a predetermined rate. The power is enough to supply several energy centers for Google. ...

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News: Event

Ryan Van Etten Reports for Hypebot at NMS

July 22, 2010

Ryan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv, is our featured corespondent, reporting live for Hypebot at New Music Seminar in New York. If you see him, be sure to say “Hi!" and tell him all the great things about your company that appeared on that press release you sent out, that somehow, got overlooked. Here's what ...

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News: Music Industry

Does the Record Industry Ignore Baby Boomers?

July 22, 2010

More specifically, can they afford to? On a national touring level, it's easy to see that most of the acts out there, making rounds, aren't targeted towards today's youth, as much as they are adults. While teens listen to the groups and may go, the legacy acts and their dominance has more to do with the ...

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News: Book / Magazine

Nancy Baym's Summer Reading List

July 22, 2010

Nancy Baym is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas and author of the Online Fandom blog. Some readers will remember that she's been interviewed on here in the past. Here at Hypebot, we are rolling out our summer reading lists, written by some of the leading thinkers in the industry. ...

News: Music Industry

Music Industry Snobbery: The Inferiority of Issues

July 22, 2010

Bruce and I run a fairly niche publication and sometimes it's interesting to compare the conversations that we are having with that of the mainstream media. There's a story on CNN that begs the question, “Is the death of the CD looming?“ It's not that it isn't a great, relevant question. It's that it just isn't ...

News: Technology

Steve Rubel: Six Digital Trends to Watch

July 22, 2010

\Steve Rubel is SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, a division of Edelman--the world's largest independent PR firm. So, when he says these are six digital trends to watch, people tend to take notice and see to what he has to say. This slide show recently appeared on his site; its worth clicking through and ...

News: Event

More from the New Music Seminar

July 22, 2010

“It's our responsibility to monetize anarchy“--Jim Griffin @billboardbiz: The Top 50 new songs account for 2/3rds of all song downloads last year. @artisanalmich: Hey guys, the truth hurts. Don't boo terrestrial radio. It is what it is. Highly curated with lots of gatekeepers. Martin Atkins on the real secret to using social media: “It's like Japanese ...