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SXSW Interactive 2011: Panels Worth Checking Out
Thinking of heading to Austin in March? Before the South by Southwest Music Festival, there's also South by Southwest Interactive, a conference that focuses on technology, media, marketing and culture. It's no surprise, therefore, that the evolution of the music industry is a hot topic at SXSWi. The program is partially crowdsourced: people who are interested ...
Overheard @ Bandwidth (#bandwidthsf)
From Hypebot's eyes and ears at Bandwidth @DannyDee Promoted Tweets: (allows company to sponsor a tweet) roll out in the fall & 2011..will be self serve in the future 1 in 4 tweets links to content (70 million a day.) 7Digital powers Spotify's downloads...surprising % of users want to own vs. stream music Unless you know ...
Band Creates a Free Music Video Using Flickr
Great Music And A Little Bit Of Imagination. Not everyone has friends with nice camera equipment or the persuasive power to swindle some young film students into recording their next music video. That's the situation Changing Clocks found themselves in. So they teamed up with the world of Flickr and created this neat video for free, ...
One Day... Albums as Single Unbreakable Files
Fans are cherry-picking your songs. You hate it, hate it, hate it. Artists make albums, not songs. If only there were a way to make fans consume your vision as you saw fit. In Wired UK's edition, Russell Davies poses an interesting question: MP3s, Napster and iTunes have turned the natural unit of music consumption into ...
Interview: Steve Knopper of Rolling Stone and Appetite for Self-Destruction (PT. 4)
Read Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3 Kyle Bylin: In a desperate attempt to preserve existing cultural and social norms or potential damage to the current social institution, the traditional record industry has gone to war with everything from the phonograph to player pianos to home-taping, claiming that these new technologies would effectively kill of ...
Industry Bloggers Bite Paul McGuinness Back
As reported earlier this week, U2 manager Paul McGuinness had some humorous and colorful things to say about industry bloggers and the state of music in general. A number of those bloggers" decided to respond and critique his new GQ essay. Naturally, none of these perspectives are from any sort of the anonymous gremlins that McGuinness ...
Fat Beats Closes Last Remaining Retail Locations
Early this September, hip hop label Fat Beats will be closing its two remaining iconic retail locations in New York and Los Angeles. The label will be throwing a series of blow-out sales and tribute parties, open to the public, to celebrate the 16 years that the stores were in operation. To Fat Beats, their ability ...
MidemNet Lab Music Startup Showcase Now Accepting Submissions
MidemNet Lab has opened the application process for its January 2011 Cannes showcase. This international pitch platform helps launch and expose innovative international music start-ups and mobile apps. This year, applicants can submit to one of three categories: mobile apps services for the industry services for the consumer Each finalists will pitch to a jury of ...
Mellencamp Likens the Internet to Atomic Bomb
John Mellencamp. What a well-known, thoughtful artist, who always has such insightful things to say about the music business. His erudite commentary on the evolution of our culture is intelligent and will be a hot topic for further discussion: The Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb. It's destroyed the music business. ...
Chris Anderson: "The Web is Dead."
Ever one to envelope web memes, Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson is at it again. This time around though, he's not writing about The Long Tail, Free, or saying that Atoms Are The New Bits." Rather, he's declaring that the web is dead. Basically, Anderson makes the argument that mobile device revolution has caused many people to move from ...


