More Music Industry News: Sky Goes After iTunes, Playdar, Submersible Bought, N.I.N. & More

It's Columbus Day in the U.S., one of those semi-holidays that we Americans don't get enough of. Some are working and others are not; but it slows the flow of news a bit.

I wanted to be sure to send huge congratulations to Hypebot Associate Editor Kyle Bylin who I understand did a stellar job during his keynote Q&A at Next Big Nashville last week. Kyle is preparing a post and I'm told that NBN will post the video online. Until then, be sure to read Kyle's essay that inspired the keynote, "Cradle to Grave: The Untold Story of Digital Natives".

• UK's Sky guns for iTunes market with new music download service. (Guardian, BBC) Forrester's Mark Mulligan has a first take.
  
• Glenn Peoples of Billboard has a recap of the Future Of Music Summit complete with links. Most of the sessions can still also be streamed.
• Playdar Can Save Music Services Cash, Enable P2P Streaming –  Eliot Van Buskirk writes: "While running Playdar, you can use search music on your home network, but that's the tip of the iceberg.  An obscure sharable playlist file format called XSPF (pronouned “spiff”) has led to the development of Playdar, a 'music content resolver service' from Last.fm co-founder Richard Jones with implications for everything from how much Pandora and Spotify have to pay record labels and how fans share music with each other. (Epicenter)
• Sonoma Wire Works, a maker of software for musicians, has acquired Paul Allen's Submersible Music product line, including the DrumCore and KitCore software. The company's product is a drum tool that allows guitarists like Allen to be backed by some of the most famous rock drummers.
• The Myth and the Machine: The overlapping narratives of Nine Inch Nails within the control of the recording industry and Western culture moving through the Information Age combine in the band’s music as a sonic collage questioning the role of man in the machine. (PopMatters)
  
• AAA radio comes to Roanoke, VA. WVMP, The Music Place, will focus on "progressive and emerging artists" with a nod toward Americana "while working closely with the arts community and social justice organizations" of the city.  Why is this Hypebot news? Coincidently, I'm moving to Roanoke later this week! Go to get back to packing…