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Bye Bye Lala. Hello iTunes in the Cloud?
The Lala service has been discontinued as of May 31st, 2010. Lala members, click here for more information on any applicable credits or refunds That's the simple message that lala.com visitors find on the home page since yesterday when Apple, as promised, closed the music service it bought several months ago. But ...
Buzzmedia Adds 6 Major Music Blogs: The Hype Machine, Purevolume, Popmatters Gorilla vs. Bear, Concrete Loop and RCRD LBL
(UPDATE 2) BuzzMedia has added today 6 major music blogs. PureVolume, PopMatters, Gorilla vs. Bear, The Hype Machine, Concrete Loop and RCRD LBL join Stereogum, Buzznet, Idolator and Absolute Punk in the web entertainment publisher's music portfolio. UPDATE: BuzzMedia tells Hypebot that HypeM, RCRDLBL and Pop Matters are partnerships. All sites will retain their own editorial ...
What Happens when Everyone's a Music Maker?
Are we moving from an era of media consumption to one where were are all creators? Blogs enable us all to be writers. Cameras on mobile phones have turned us into photo journalists. Now new apps are bringing music creation to the masses. Dave Hayes explored this phenomenon and predicted an interesting future during his recent ...
Amazon and Walmart Tie for #2 U.S. Music Retailer
iTunes Still #1 As Digital Grows iTunes continued to be the top retailer of music with 28% of all music purchased by U.S. , up 4% since Q1 2009 according to researcher NPD. Amazon gained 3% to tie Walmart's shrinking music department for second position at 12% Sales of digital tracks and albums accounted for 40% ...
Will MySpace Music Stay Free? It's up to the Labels
At yesterday's TechCrunch Disrupt conference, MySpace co-presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones were interviewed about the future of the struggling social networker. On falling numbers -We have 120 million unique visitors worldwide. US numbers have been fairly flat. Page views are down... substantially by design. MySpace used to have processes that took 10 page views ...
A Record Collection of Links
Collecting In The Age Of Streaming Music The guest essay comes from Robbert van Ooijen, a graduating master student New Media & Digital Culture at the Dutch University of Utrecht. It's based on a research paper he wrote at the wonderful Dutch start-up Twones and asks what remains of the intimate relationship ...
Musicians and Health Insurance: Taking the Pulse
A new Future Of Music Coalition study Taking the Pulse found that, of the 1,451 musicians who responded, 33% said they do not have health insurance. This is nearly twice the national average of 17% uninsured, as estimated by the Kaiser Family Foundation. (pdf of full report here.) With that as a backdrop, the ...
#FMC10 DC Policy Day - A2IM on Piracy: "It's Not the Kids, It's the Companies"
Overheard at today's Future of Music Coalition DC Policy Day: It's not kids, it's companies. People are making money off this piracy" - Rich Bengloff of A2IM Oh joy there apparently are NO provisions in ACTA advising artists & creators of their rights. (only a campaign to 'educate' public)." FMC's Health Insurance Navigation Tool for ...
Reid Benditt on Music Choice
This guest post was submitted by Reid Benditt, an On-Air Host at Y-Rock on XPN, a former News Writer for Consequence of Sound and an idealist. When it comes to music consumption it's obvious that we have an abundance of choices. There are a seemingly infinite number of methods for both listening to music and getting ...
Gigsby Launches Electronic Music Network
Hypebot Has 50 Beta Invites Gigsby.com launched recently in private beta as professional network for the Electronic Music Industry. The sote includes the basic social networking features including profiles with integrated feeds for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Soundcloud and others. In addition, Gigsby provides gig collaboration tools including automated artist booking requests, gig pages with file storage, ...


