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Pandora Invades Cars with User Profiles in Hand

October 14, 2010

(UPDATED) Early next year, Ford will be shipping Feista cars that are capable of running Pandora. Drivers will be able to call out their favorite radio station by name. The company is looking to gain a foothold in the drive-time radio market and attract bigger, more lucrative advertising opportunities. Rather than being hammered with advertising for ...

INgrooves Lands Investment from Shamrock for Expansion, Extends Universal Music Partnership

October 14, 2010

Digital music distributor INgrooves has received a “significant" investment from Shamrock Capital Growth Fund II, a private equity fund focused on media, entertainment and communications. INgrooves also announced the extension of its distribution agreement with Universal Music Group which began with an investment by the music conglomerate in March 2008. The size of Shamrock's investment was ...

Thumbplay Could Prove to be a Contender, if We Knew Their Real Numbers

October 15, 2010

Earlier this week, Thumbplay announced that it had reached an impressive 500,000 downloads of it's music application which has been available on Android, Apple and BlackBerry platforms since June. With 8 million+ tracks from all four major labels and most indies, plus a truly portable app, Thumbplay has the potential to be a real contender in the ...

Google Willing to Help Record Labels Combat Music Piracy, but It'll Cost Them

October 15, 2010

If the record labels want Google to help them find links to infringing content; it'll cost them. As much as $5 per thousand queries, say new reports. It costs money to provide services to aid the labels in their 'war on piracy' and Google plans to recoup every penny. After all, they have operating costs too. ...

T Bone Burnett Responds: "Musicians Deserve Better. the Audience Deserves Better."

October 15, 2010

Yesterday, T Bone Burnett was stuck on a plane for five hours and took a moment to respond to just about every single Hypebot reader that mocked him for the somewhat shocking advice that he offered to musicians at the FMC Policy Summit. If you don't recall, he basically said that the best counsel he could ...

Trent Reznor Understands Why Fans File-Share Music; Why? Because He Does It Too.

October 13, 2010

In an interview with Drowned In Sound, Trent Reznor talks about his role in the movie The Social Network. Further into the talk, he gave an interesting insight into file-sharing and his understanding of it. He grasps what motivates fans to file-share music, because he does it himself. Rather than considering himself above the topic and ...

MTT: Alternative Ways to Create a Career in Music

October 9, 2010

Jonathan Ostrow (@miccontrol), the cofounder of MicControl, has written a post about the different ways to create a sustainable career in music. With the changes in the music industry, many artists must figure out how to maintain a career. Musicians can find great opportunities in various areas such as: music licensing, live performance, music production, freelance ...

Ask the Readers: Should We Write About Music?

October 9, 2010

Recently, it was pointed out to me in the comments section that for all our coverage about the industry of music and the technology that's changing it, Hypebot doesn't write about any music. For minute, I paused and thought rather seriously about the potential of writing about music on the blog and how it might be ...

Downloading Music is Forgettable, Buying It Wasn't

October 12, 2010

For most of my life, buying music included a pilgrimage. The closest place that sold CDs took an hour drive to get there. I still have a few memories of the trips I would undertake on Tuesdays just to get my hands on a new album. While I never got to experience the thrill of waiting ...

Soundcloud Users Can Now Distribute Music Instantly Through Tunecore

October 9, 2010