5 Unlikely Music Industry Heroes

These five men don't follow the unwritten rules of how the music industry (or any industry) ... - He writes about music only occasionally, but smarter folks in our business read his books and daily blog ... ' face it, Nine Inch Nails makes music that most of us find about as pleasant as a trip to the dentist [more...]

Date: 2008-08-04 14:23:41
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Guy Hands Finally Finds An Exec To Take Over EMI [The Biz]

Starting in October, the new CEO of EMI Records will be Elio Leoni-Sceti, an Italian advertising executive with no experience in the music industry ... in the future of the music industry to realise the ambitions we all have for EMI. Having completed ... transformation in the music industry. His career achievements and outstanding leadership qualities [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 21:00:00
Blog: Idolator, All About the...

Janet Coats on The Church Of Journalism Is Dying

by Stowe Boyd, Reston Jessica DaSilva writes about the growing sense of mortality in the journalistic trenches, ... fighting for” ... She compared newspapers to the music industry. Having increased access to music has undermined the corporate giants of the music industry. They are not making money, but demand [more...]

Date: 2008-07-05 13:27:42
Blog: /Message...

Music industry on game devs fighting illegal file-sharers: you're on your own

Earlier this morning, news came out that five British game companies are taking 25, ... one to fall in the pitfalls of this title. But since both industries of music and gaming are the most hurt ... , the music industry has given their own two cents on the issue - another victim of piracy [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 02:35:45
Blog: QJ.NET - QuickJump Home...

Music industry on game devs fighting illegal file-sharers: you're on your own

Earlier this morning, news came out that five British game companies are taking 25, ... one to fall in the pitfalls of this title. But since both industries of music and gaming are the most hurt ... , the music industry has given their own two cents on the issue - another victim of piracy [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 02:35:45
Blog: QJ.NET - QuickJump Home...

Wither audio cassette tapes in 2008?

p2pnet news view | Music:- Way back in the last century, when Mitch Bainwol was just another political hack, DAT (digital audio tape), “poses the most significant technological threat the American music industry has ever faced,” declared music industry dinosaur Jay Berman, who then headed up Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 15:36:04
Blog: p2pnet news ...

New RIAA misinformation representative

p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- Two top RIAA hitmen are now being paid as corporate games industry heavies, but no worries ... general Jim Hood. It’s a shame he’s besmirched himself by acting as a corporate music industry ... of the corporate music industry, adding: “If you are not careful when you download programs [more...]

Date: 2008-08-26 18:35:02
Blog: p2pnet news ...

Music Needs To Support Lower Drinking Age

Drinking_age_2 COMMENTARY: The music industry should follow the lead of the consortium of major college and university presidents who this week ... drinking age would be good news for music and the music industry. Before the age was raised to 21, circuits of clubs presenting live music... flourished; not just in large cities but also in small [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 11:46:08
Blog: hypebot...

STYX - Best of Styx (1977)

Review Permalink | Submit a review for this album | Buy this album from PA partners ... the label is. The nice words “Customer is King” is actually not here in music industry. As a long fan ... the music industry work which is very label centric and it’s about time now that this must be changed [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 09:17:55
Blog: Progressive Rock Music ...

Next Round In UK Filesharing Madness

It was the big talk two month ago when British ISP Virgin Media send out it’s first warning letters to users they suspected to be sharing files ... . There is no word on punishment yet but it is interesting that the ISPs, Ofcom and the music industry ... the punishment, boy was I wrong. The Music Industry is favoring the three strikes [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 19:07:26
Blog: gHacks technology news...

Collapse Of WTO Talks Washes Away Hope For TRIPS Changes

Inside Views Contribute your views! Submit an Inside Views idea on any relevant topic to info@ip-watch ... and innovation. Click here to read A New Business Model For The Music Industry Explained Bennett Lincoff Bennett Lincoff writes: The music industry has been in a decade-long death-spiral [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 15:04:14
Blog: Intellectual Property W...

Brazil Probes Pharmaceutical Industry For Building High-Cost Drug Demand

Inside Views Contribute your views! Submit an Inside Views idea on any relevant topic to info@ip-watch ... and innovation. Click here to read A New Business Model For The Music Industry Explained Bennett Lincoff Bennett Lincoff writes: The music industry has been in a decade-long death-spiral [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 14:57:33
Blog: Intellectual Property W...

Monday's Music Briefing: Hands To Testify, McBride To Test & More

new CEO, there are a more executive changes at EMI including in A&R.(SV Insider) ... is a successful business. Elio has the passion, drive and belief in the future of the music industry to realise ... of EMI Music to lead the most exciting business transformation in the music industry. His career [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 15:30:34
Blog: hypebot...

UK “MP3 Police” Evidence Unchallenged, Not For Public Consumption

This week, ISPs agreed to work with the BPI to reduce file-sharing in the UK. When someone gets ‘caught’ the ISPs will send out a warning, 100% based on music industry ... unchallenged, a perfect position for the music industry. On Thursday, every type of media outlet [more...]

Date: 2008-07-26 09:06:05
Blog: TorrentFreak | Torrent ...

Bowie Tune Prefigures Music Industry of 2012

Heathen Former director of strategic research for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) ... ) he says explain the state of the music industry: "It's the beginning of nothing, And nothing has changed ... the brief history of music in its digital era with tangible predictions about the future. To create [more...]

Date: 2008-08-11 19:31:59
Blog: Listening Post - Wired ...

Labels Mining Lyrics, Clothes to Avoid Extinction

What are words for, when no one listens anymore? Saving the music industry, thanks. That's Lyric Culture's business plan. But will it work? ... percentage royalties are probably not going to save anyone, especially a music industry scared to death of downloads. Which is to say, the past, present and future of music. Photo: AP/Damian Dovarganes See [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 22:53:08
Blog: Listening Post - Wired ...

Found: Somone Who Wants To Run EMI's Music Business

rb_execcomm_elioleonisceti.jpg As previously reported, EMI owner Guy Hands has finally hired a new CEO for his recorded music division: ... in the future of the music industry to realise the ambitions we all have for EMI. Having completed ... in the music industry. His career achievements and outstanding leadership qualities are ideally [more...]

Date: 2008-07-07 10:33:00
Blog: Silicon Alley Insider...

The Annual URBAN NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT-MARKETING SUMMIT

The Urban Network continues it long legacy of Music-Entertainment & Marketing Conferences in Houston, Texas, September 24 - 27, ... ); as well as executives from MySpace, Beta Records, Music World, Universal Music, KOCH Records, Rap ... , an industry leader in dispensing music and entertainment information, will present a monumental conference [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 16:19:07
Blog: Everything BIG CED...

CHILLIWACK - Wanna Be a Star (1981)

It’s kind of hard to take this seriously as a progressive rock album, primarily because there’s nothing progressive about it ... their experience of ‘selling out’ in pursuit of commercial success in the music industry. It’s a true ... for the death of a generation of good music that was marked by the record industry creative dearth [more...]

Date: 2008-08-10 03:54:41
Blog: Progressive Rock Music ...

Music industry to indoctrinate kids on copyright

Strangely unsure about this - can’t help but see funding for actual instruments being cut at the same time as a one-way dogma on file-sharing gets ... injected into children, but here’s the deal (from the Telegraph). “For the first time, pupils will learn about intellectual property rights in the music industry - and how it relates ... [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 10:47:08
Blog: Distorted-Loop.com ...

Kenya: Govt Unsure How to Combat Piracy in Music Industry

A bid by musicians to team up with the taxman in the fight against piracy flopped on Wednesday ... to the board. The musicians accused KRA of not doing enough in trying to penetrate the music industry ... of that kind as VAT, customs duty and import tax. “Music, as a product, falls under unaccounted [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 21:21:59
Blog: megaeb.net ...

Audiotuts has Officially Launched!

We’re super excited to launch the new site! AUDIOTUTS has the same setup and dedication to quality tutorials as VECTORTUTS, ... to have paid off. Our assembled team of tutorial-wizards have written for industry magazines like Computer Music, Future Music and Music Tech, run hugely successful websites and YouTube channels [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 16:46:17
Blog: Illustrator & Vect...

Krugman: The economics of abundance

New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman started a bit of a scuffle with his column about how “freeconomics” is affecting various content ... years ago — when many of those who are now running music companies and movie studios weren’t even ... industries, including music and books. In a post at Silicon Alley Insider, Hank Williams slams [more...]

Date: 2008-06-07 01:30:31
Blog: mathewingram.com/work...

Jade’s Intro to OPM 101: Eraserheads, Reunited

… and it feels so good… When I first met my friends here in Kapisanan, someone suggested I do a regular “Introduction to OPM” post. (I worked in the Philippine music industry before moving here a year ago to work for the, uh, Canadian music industry.) I never really got around doing it but the Eraserheads reunion last Aug. 30 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 16:52:41
Blog: Kapisanan Philippine Ce...

Google offers free music to China

top100.cn In China, Baidu is the powerhouse, the "it" girl, the search engine to beat. It's a treasure trove of music, most of it illegal ... Summit and technologies director of the Future of Music Coalition: Make itself the center of media ... industry's bills. But in China, not so. The music industry is willing to gamble there because it says [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 02:53:24
Blog: Technology | Girl, you ...

A New Project: Songs For Eating And Drinking

Okay, I'm really excited to share. Throw some big-time musicians around a table with some amazing up and comers, feed 'em like kings and queens, ... , late night mutterings; and then the lucky end up on large stages and tucked deep inside recording studios - often vastly disconnected from those that love their music. My friends in the music industry [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 08:03:55
Blog: Chase Jarvis Blog...

A World Without Record Companies (pfblogs.org)

I’ve noticed that many discussions about digital music, the struggles of the recording industries, etc, often are centered more on various individual’s ideological beliefs around music, more than they’re on the economic issues facing the recording industry. Some people hate pop music and want [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 04:19:28
Blog: The Ad-Free Personal Fi...

World Domination Progress Update: AUDIOTUTS Launched

The ‘TUTS family has indeed been expanding rapidly of late ... and mastering, sound design, DJing and everything audio related. If this sounds like a fit for you– ... have written for industry magazines like Computer Music, Future Music and Music Tech, run hugely [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 12:11:29
Blog: Freelance Advice and F...

George Jones University Announces Music Industry Speakers

Nashville, TN -- George Jones University (GJU), the 2-day seminar program held twice each year, provides a unique and substantive learning environment for music industry hopefuls. Student ... entrepreneurs and industry executives provide the instruction. ... [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 09:45:00
Blog: CYBERGRASS The Internet...

Don’t sue your customers! — EA Sports boss

p2pnet news view RIAA | Music | Games:- EA Sports boss Peter Moore thinks the gaming industry has something to learn from the Big 4 record labels, ... by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association ... ’t think that’s a good idea, warning, “It didn’t work for the music industry,” says Eurogamer. “I’ [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 13:01:41
Blog: p2pnet news ...

NTCA uses RIAA blitz in traffic throttling war

p2pnet news view P2P | Freedom:- Major US cable companies are using Vivendi Universal, EMI, ... music  online. School authorities have responded by imposing various music industry initiated ... Warner Music and Sony BMG’s sue ‘em all marketing campaign against American students to try [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 13:35:46
Blog: p2pnet news ...

Getting Paid in the Music Industry

Working in the music industry is not usually your typical 9 to 5 kind of gig, and it doesn't pay like one either. Sure, some people get a steady paycheck,... [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 17:40:22
Blog: Music Careers - Music I...

MyAWOL Becomes LP33.TV, Launches IMDB For Musicians

Last July I wrote about MyAWOL, a web-centric music label looking to compete with traditional labels, ... , LP33.TV is also launching its database for music industry professionals, TheMIDB, which hopes ... one portion of LP33.TV’s new approach to the music industry, and the company plans to have its flagship [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 20:35:19
Blog: TechCrunch ...

Friday Business Links

• British retailer HMV reported improved revenues in its most recent quarter ... of CBS Radio, is being considered for the job along with a long list of others, said two music industry ... . Music sales were down 7% as the company increased its emphasis on video games. (Bloomberg) • [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 14:02:41
Blog: Coolfer: Music And The ...

UK ISPs Ordered to Surrender Details of ‘Thousands of Pirates’

‘’ A High Court in the UK has ordered the two main ISPs of the country to surrender the identities of thousands of alleged file ... a much more strong arm approach compared to the music industry. However, it is only one company pursuing a limited number of miscreants at the moment. I doubt the music industry will follow suit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 07:06:16
Blog: Startup Meme...

UK John Lewis launches its biggest fashion campaign - Reuters

UK John Lewis launches its... by mally Today 08:11 AM 9,603 16,253 Uk Sports Football The real football ( ... Music Industry Gossip Discuss the music industry and RIAA Re: Holy Jesus Man [more...]

Date: 2008-09-06 08:07:33
Blog: Magsite.co.uk Magazine ...

Drum Scholarship Winner Announced

Who is Minco De Bruin? Beats the hell out of us, but he just won a $10,000 scholarship from Mapex, Paiste, ... of guitar, bass, drums and vocals for a career in the music industry. It was the first full-time course ... to be an aspirational goal for young musicians. Institute alumni can be found throughout today’s music industry [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 04:30:51
Blog: big drum thump :: drum...

ISPs Hand Over Details of ‘Several Thousand’ Pirates

Two major UK ISPs have been ordered by the High Court to hand over the identities of several thousand alleged file-sharers ... approach compared to the music industry,” said the BT spokesman. “However, it is only one company pursuing a limited number of miscreants at the moment. I doubt the music industry will follow suit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 15:56:05
Blog: Zwartbaard...

ISPs Hand Over Details of ‘Several Thousand’ Pirates

Two major UK ISPs have been ordered by the High Court to hand over the identities of several thousand alleged file-sharers ... approach compared to the music industry,” said the BT spokesman. “However, it is only one company pursuing a limited number of miscreants at the moment. I doubt the music industry will follow suit [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 14:22:48
Blog: TorrentFreak | Torrent ...

BayFest Music Scholarship Program

BayFest is offering talented high school musicians a chance to win a $1,000 scholarship ... to attend a music industry education program, which offers students the opportunity to learn from music industry professionals. (Saturday, September 13 at the Mobile Civic Center). (Read the full post [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 09:45:19
Blog: Alabama ...

About Last Weekend... Chatting With Rachel Feinstein at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller

Rachel Feinstein is that girl that all us regular girls want to be when we grow up ... made out of corrugated, colored cardboard advertising the free breakfast in a hotel. How do you deal ... the world. You don't see music critics or the music industry attacking her. The art world takes itself [more...]

Date: 2008-08-05 19:12:02
Blog: PAPERMAG: WORD UP!...

Nine Inch Nails: P2P file share triumph

p2pnet news | Music:- Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have made a total mockery of Warner Music, EMI, ... ) the music industry. Both bands put their trust in their fans, offering their music online for free ... music lovers, not criminals and thieves, as the Big 4 call their customers as they try to sue them [more...]

Date: 2008-03-06 17:22:05
Blog: p2pnet news ...

Rick Rubin goes digital, joins MOG board

He helped revive Johnny Cash's career and lent a hand to the Dixie Chicks in their hour of need ... one day be obsolete. The future? A music subscription model could save the music industry, a view shared ... artists, join the board of a digital music blogging site? Unclear, until we hear back from Rubin [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 04:45:46
Blog: Technology | Girl, you ...

Sharp Points

If Boris listened to rap instead of Lilly Allen, observes Joe Muggs in the Harry’s Place Arts Section, ... scuttled the chances of a sequel to The Golden Compass? Are women short-changed in the music industry ... of music for the Junk Box Jury. So, for an earful, click on ARTS…. [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 09:16:04
Blog: Harry’s Place...

Baidu ploy: divide and conquer

p2pnet news view Music | Advertising:- “China’s rogue search engine Baidu has recently come under intense attack from a large swathe of the music industry including government appointed bodies like the Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC ... to refrain from advertising on Baidu,” says Maths in Music 2.0. With its, “advertising lifeblood under [more...]

Date: 2008-07-14 12:29:55
Blog: p2pnet news ...

The List: MusicWatch

All Music Guide Just as the movie industry has IMDb.com, so the music biz has an Internet encyclopedia of its own ... by artist, album, song, or classical work. The site’s design doesn’t allow easy cross-referencing, but AMG ... the full list of 200. Entertainment Weekly Want to know what’s hot and buzz-worthy in music without [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 14:59:08
Blog: Liveblog | Christianity...

Lars Ulrich--A changed man

Lars Ulrich, sad and happy 2000: Lars Ulrich, Metallica's outspoken drummer, alerts Napster to 600,000 fans who had downloaded their music ... on the music industry soon enough. This week: Copies of Metallica's not-yet-released album "Death Magnetic ... , as on the whole they are probably some of the most loyal music fans on the planet. Ulrich also [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 20:18:20
Blog: Amy's Robot...

Could we get a Beatle remasters announcement sooner than later?

With all of the specualtion, and recent stories surrounding the rumors regarding the remastered Beatles back catalog, ... be music-related. Most likely, the Cupertino, Calif., company will unveil a refreshed line of iPods ... t be about: a digital music subscription service. Music-industry sources say such a service, which Apple [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 03:30:35
Blog: I read the news today: ...

eMusic Not Happy with the Deal between ISPs and Music Industry

The record industry's deal with UK internet service providers to crack down on illegal file sharing may constitute a threat to existing legal sites, ... claims eMusic, Apple’s iTunes main competitor in digital music. Download 25 FREE songs ... their catalogues that would let ISPs launch their own sites for legal downloads of tracks and music videos) [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 16:22:00
Blog: Torrents, file-sharing ...

Nokia signs Warner Music for 'Comes with Music' phone plan

Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience, Apple Inc (AAPL), Marketing and advertising, Nokia Corp. (NOK) ... they have downloaded" while in yearly contracts with Nokia. WMG executives allowed the music company ... to challenge Apple's grip on the music industry, and subscription models like "Comes with Music" may [more...]

Date: 2008-07-01 16:42:00
Blog: BloggingStocks...

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