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Lady Gaga: The Pornification of Popular Music
And How Kindie Music Creates New Opportunities. Is Lady Gaga poisoning children's minds? Daily Mail columnist Bel Mooney seems to think so. In researching claims made by music producer Mike Stock that that pop culture is 'sexualizing' youngsters; Mooney sat down to watch some of the Miss Gaga's videos on YouTube and was appalled at the ...
Survey: Music Streaming Decreases Filesharing, Increases Music Discovery
A survey conducted in Norway this June for Aspiro Music concluded that streaming services lead to more music listening as well as and increased and more diverse music discovery. Of the those surveyed that use streaming music services 68% listen to more music and 72% say they often find music they didn`t know about before. The ...
Apple Pulls Grooveshark iPhone App Following Universal Music Complaint
Following a complaint form Universal Music Group UK, Apple pulled down the recently approved Grooveshark iPhone app. The app had been receiving rave reviews, but Grooveshark only has licencing deals with EMI and a number of indies. In fact, Universal filed suit against Grooveshark in January and the takedown demand is believed to stem from that ...
FlowSongs: Why Paying Royalties is "Complicated"
A Graphic Illustration of Music Industry Madness. The concept behind the new Pure owned, cloud-based music service FlowSongs is pretty straightforward. You hear a song on the radio and want to buy it, but have to wait until next time your logged onto iTunes or maybe in a store. The company hopes to amend this disparity ...
Peter Sunde: The History of the Pirate Bay
This is a fascinating presentation by Peter Sunde, one of the original founders of The Pirate Bay. In the talk, Sunde gives a great overview of the website's eventful history, the debate on file-sharing, and hints at the cultural changes to come. The presentation is just shy of an hour long, but the whole thing it ...
Warner Bros Records Sued for Tracking Web Users
Last week, a lawsuit filed in federal court contended that Warner Bros Records website, among other well-known media properties, including Disney and their music site Playlist.com, have been secretly tracking online users, as well as children, by installing 'Flash cookies' on their computers, which quicky respawn after their deletion. The suit filed by attorneys representing a ...
1/5th Of American Adults Don't Use the Internet
Likely, they don't file-share songs either. Has their music consumption decreased? According to survey results released by Pew research center, documenting broadband adoption in America, one-fifth of adults don't use the internet. If I remember right, from a survey published last year, 50% of these people, without access to the web, are country music fans. What ...
Indaba Music: New Site, Expanded Services
Music collaboration site Indaba Music is expanding the services that it offers to artists, as well, today they are launching a newly redesigned site. They hope to guide musicians through all stages of development with their musical ecosystem. New services to include: sales and distribution tools; a sheet music storefront; video lessons; loops and samples; and ...
Arcade Fire Rethinks Album Format, Tells No One
Normally, Topspin CEO Ian Rogers makes good on his Vanna White style of presenting the albums that he works on, buys, and films himself opening like a kid on Christmas. For whatever reason, when he clicked through Arcade Fire's new album Suburbs, which comes with digital art that's synchronized to the music, I felt a little ...
48ers: Another Realtime Social Search Tool
Not long ago, Hyoebot covered the release of SocialMention, a new real-time search tool. Another one has hit the web since then called 48ers; the company is named after the first pioneers to seek out the California Gold Rush in 1948. The main difference that I found between the two social search tools—because it isn't the ...
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