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Blue Music Group Introduces Instant Net-CDs
Blue Music Group is the first record label to introduce Instant Net-CDs on its website. In addition to offering common mpeg layer 3 ("mp3") and advanced audio codec ("aac") media, the entire Blue Music Group catalog is now available in a full quality CD format, including printable artwork, lyrics and inserts. “This is a major step ...
Photographer Annie Leibovitz's Lifework is on the Line
As the famed celebrity photographer faces the loss of her photos, observers see a portrait of unfocused finances. Annie Leibovitz could lose her 200-acre Astor Barns country estate up the Hudson River from New York City and her town house in New York. Leibovitz had two goals for a proposed series of her famous celebrity photographs, ...
Album Sales Continue Downward Spiral
Billboard shares an analysis of the latest bad news on the music sales front. The highlights (low points?) include: Album sales were down 18.1% compared to last year, 31% compared to '07 The July 5 week period 6/28 - 8/1 was down 10.3% compared to the same period in '08 and 22.8% vs. '07. Michael ...
Hot Property: Bing Crosby's Old Stomping Grounds for Sale in Toluca Lake
A Toluca Lake home referred to as the Bing Crosby Estate is listed at $10 million. The singer and actor lived on the property from 1936 until early January 1943, when the 20-room house was gutted in a Christmas tree fire, according to news reports from the L.A. Times archives. The damage to the structure and ...
You Bet! California Lottery and Warner Bros. Records Make Music Together
Warner Bros. Records and the California Lottery announced a unique partnership that will be music to players’ ears. On September 1, 2009, Warner Bros Records Scratchers will hit stores. The first-ever music promotion offers players the opportunity to win the usual instant cash prizes, but also includes unique second-chance prizes, such as music downloads and concert ...
British Music Label Abandoning CDs to Release Songs as Open Format Music Playapps
British music label, Re-Interpreted Performance Records, foreseeing the eventual demise of plastic disc media, CDs and DVDs, has partnered with PlayApp to release all their upcoming artists’ records as downloadable, multimedia, open format playapps. As the music industry lost billions of dollars and music fans have turned away from CDs to easy-to-use and portable songs in ...
Future of Music Coalition Announces Additional Speakers for Policy Summit 2009
Top names in music, law, technology and policy will gather in Washington, DC from October 4-6, 2009 for the eighth Future of Music Policy Summit, which provides an unprecedented forum for artists, advocates, policymakers, attorneys, entrepreneurs and industry leaders to discuss the crucial issues facing the music community. Future of Music Policy Summit 2009 Widely praised ...
Saxophonist and Composer Sarah Manning Signed to Posi-Tone Records
New York City based alto saxophonist and composer Sarah Manning has signed on to Posi-Tone Records and will be recording a new album this fall, with an anticipated release of Spring or Summer of 2010. The Posi-Tone release will be Manning’s third album as a leader, and the first to feature her regular quartet, Shatter the ...
US Digital Music Sales to Bury CDs by 2010
Is it time to bid farewell to the CD? It is if you listen to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). According to Arts Technica, the IFPI is claiming that “If current trends hold, U.S. digital music downloads will rake in more money than physical formats next year. Worldwide, digital will overtake physical by ...
Detroit Musician Creates Music Videos for the Hearing Impaired
Sean Forbes was born into a family of musicians. According to Detroit Make it Here, a Web site powered by Crain’s Detroit Business and Detroit Renaissance, Sean’s stepmother is a pianist, his brothers play saxophone and bass and his father and uncle lead the Detroit country rock band The Forbes Brothers. Therefore, the odds were good ...
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