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Music Collaboration Platform Blend Launches Community Sourced Record Label
Blend is a music collaboration platform that allows you to upload your music publicly or privately and to collaborate with and remix the music of others. They've been in private beta but are now open to the general public. In addition, they're launching a label for their user community which starts with digital distribution for releases ...
asQme and Steve Aoki Help Musicians Connect with Fans Across Language Barriers
asQme is bridging the divide between Japanese fans and English-speaking artists in the first stage of what has the potential to be a very successful site. asQme takes an Ask Me Anything" aka AMA approach across language barriers with Steve Aoki the first artist on tap. It will be a chance for fans to ask questions ...
Austin, TX Launches Unprecedented Study of It's $1.6 Billion Music Economy
The Music & Entertainment Division of Austin's Economic Development Department has announced the launch of a major market research study of the city's music industry. The purpose of the project is to capture an in-depth look at Austin’s music industry workers and its economic issues and opportunities. The City has hired Titan Music Group to conduct ...
Are Apple and Major Labels Planning a CD-Like 'Audio Upgrade' Campaign?
Remember all of the money you spent - and the record labels made - when upgraded your record and tape collection to superior sounding" CDs? Former label chief and Jimmy Iovine certainly does; and I'm hearing persistent talk that he's close to selling a similar audio upgrade campaign to Tim Cook and his new bosses at ...
Three Things About Streaming Music the Industry Needs to Figure Out
By Mark Mulligan from Music Industry Blog. I spent a couple of days last week in Barcelona for the annual Future Music Forum, which is developing into an important date on the music conference circuit. Later this week I will post some of the highlights of my opening address but first I am going to spend ...
Iranians Sentenced to Jail and Lashing for Dancing to Pharrell's "Happy"
Seven young Iranians who recorded a video of themselves dancing to Pharrell Williams' Happy" have been sentenced to suspended jail terms and lashing. According to the Associated Press, Lawyer Farshid Rofugaran said his clients received suspended sentences of six months in jail and 91 lashes each after their video was deemed to be indecent." One of the ...
Blue Note Records Welcomes Jamie Cullum to the Family
Blue Note Records Welcomes Jamie Cullum to the Family Special NYC shows September 29 to preview his upcoming album INTERLUDE Also opening for Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden Blue Note Records is proud to announce that they’ll be the new US home of British jazz star Jamie Cullum and all will have a chance to ...
Bop.FM Tipping Point: Pandora, Xbox Music, Rhapsody and Napster Added
Bop.fm specializes in service-agnostic playlists" allowing you to send a song link to a friend who can listen to it without having the same music service subscriptions that you have. Starting out as a somewhat better variation on overlapping trends, Bop.fm has steadily added key music streaming services from Spotify to Deezer. Now they're covering most ...
U2 Working with Apple on "New Digital Music Format" That Assures Artists Get Paid Again
U2 is working with Apple to create a new digital music format that would assure that songwriters and artists get paid for creating music. Their plans might just save the music industry," according to a preview of a Time Magazine cover story posted online Thursday morning. Time reporter Catherine Mayer spent the last week with the ...
The "Me" Generation: Why Music Curation Isn't the Answer
By Michael E. Spinelli, founder of Eventsnype. In a recent interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook dubbed Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre “creative geniuses.” The justification CEO Tim Cook gave for acquiring Beats for $3 billion was the recognition that “human curation was important in the subscription service – that the sequencing of songs that ...


