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Something Else! Reviews on the 2011 Blues Hall of Fame Honorees
By Something Else! Reviews Robert Cray tops this year's class of inductees into the Blues Hall of Fame. He's joined by acoustic bluesman John Hammond; soul-blues belter Denise LaSalle, 1950s singing star Big Maybelle, and singer/songwriters Alberta Hunter and J.B. Lenoir. Also to be recognized: Vivian Carter and Jimmy Bracken (the “Vee" and “Jay" in Vee-Jay ...
New Apple App Rules Could Kill Subscription Music
Check and mate. There's no other way to make sense of what just happened. As far as subscription music is concerned, Apple has now cornered the king of every subscription music service. If any of them moves an inch, in any direction, Apple takes/kills their king. Up until now, every subscription service has played a strategy game—against Apple ...
Gigswiz Officially Lands in U.S. [launch]
This post is by Ryan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv. GigsWiz officially launches in the U.S. today. Members of the team will be sharing details about the service with an announcement at NMS in Los Angeles today. Last week I had the chance to talk on Skype with Joonas Pekkanen, one of the three co-founders. ...
Rhapsody CEO Blasts Apple: New App Store Terms "Economically Untenable"
After Apple announced new 30% commission rates that, as Kyle Bylin wrote, could kill subscription music, I wondered who would risk Apple's legendary rath and speak up. Yesterday, John Erwin, the President of Rhapsody, America's biggest subscription music service with 750,000 subscribers, weighed in bravely calling Apple's new app store terms “economically untenable" and hinting at ...
Why Artists Should Ditch MySpace for Bandcamp
This post is by Vince Neilstein, the Editor-In-Chief at Metal Sucks. There aren't any reasons to be using MySpace in 2011. I suppose it can't hurt to have a band profile there just in case someone happens to stumble upon it, but that's about it; MySpace is a useless, out-dated, cluttered, piece-of-shit platform and there are better ...
Indies See Grammy Sales Bump, Majors Stay Flat
Do the Grammy's still sell albums and for who? The answer: not Lady Gaga or Train. While the awards show didn't hurt them either, artists like Arcade Fire, Lady Antebellum, and Eserpanza Spalding saw the largest gains. In other words, the already well-known hit makers of the last year mostly stayed flat, with the exception of ...
Guy Hands Wants to Buy EMI Back
Just a week after loosing control of EMI to Citigroup, Terra Firma's Guy Hands says he'd be interested in buying EMI back. “It's about price," Hands said in a speech to that was his first public appearance since losing the label group. But Hands didn't stop there... “Terra Firma and Citigroup agreed on what EMI was ...
Rhapsody's President: "This is the Year for Digital Music..."
Is this the year it all starts to happen? Well, according Rhapsody president Jon Irwin, the answer is most definitely 'yes.' “The steady subscriber growth we are seeing is testament to the fact that this is the year for digital music, and we congratulate Pandora on its IPO," Irwin commented on an earlier story on Digital ...
The Official Music Industry Launch Calendar - Plus: Six Reasons to be Excited for Music in 2011
2011 will be the year that defines the trajectory of digital music. The developments that everyone has been waiting for are on their way. In the past few months, launch dates for Spotify, Apple in the Cloud, Slacker On-Demand, and Sony's Music Unlimited have been confirmed. As well, the major court decision in the EMI vs. ...
Sonicbids and Songtrust Partner for D.I.Y Publishing
Later today Sonicbds further expands its artist services offering with the addition of a new Songtrust app within each artist's account. The app will help members manage their music publishing rights inexpensively and without the help of a publisher. Songtrust, developed by Downtown Music, simplifies song registration and royalty collections, and is on its way to ...
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