REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

Thank-you again to the New Music Seminar team for a great event. Summer is in full swing, but there was still lots of activity last week:

• An in depth interview with Amanda Palmer
• EU streaming service Spotify is planning a late summer U.S. launch.
• Hypebot's exclusive interview with Amanda Palmer.
• CEO Ian Rogers answers Topspin's skeptics.
• Essay: "The Artist As A Startup & Label As A Venture Fund" and A2IM President Rich Bengloff shares the indlie label viewpoint.
• EMI reshuffles it's digital executives.
• Kazaa relaunches as "The Future Of Digital Music". It's not.
• CEO promises a simplified MySpace, and growth may be slowing at the main site, but MySpace Music is going strong
• Artist organization tool Bandize leaves beta with a bang.
• Rock Band game opens platform to indie music. Watch a video intro.
• Techdirt experiments with a formula to save the music industry.
• Survey shows that pirates can become paying fans.
• The Orchard partners with Michael Caplan's One Haven.
• INgrooves and Topspin partner for direct to fan marketing.
• Vote: What do you think of Perez Hilton's first signing?
• Music Widgets Come Of Age: Tunecore and theBizmo.
• Report from last week's New Music Seminar: "There are no more excuses."
• Unlimited download site Zookz goes down.