More Music Industry News: Perez Can’t Sell Tix, Public Enemy Fan Funds, Pirate Bay Stumbles & More

• Perez Hilton’s ambitious concert tour dogged by apathy. (Fan Fare) Is anyone outside of WMG surprised that being a snarky gossip blogger does not transalte into ticket sales?
• Public Enemy will ask fans to fund their new album.  The band is working with SellaBand to raise $250,000 in donations of $25.  In return they'll get a numbered copy of the album and a share of the profits. (Music Ally)
• Pirate Bay goes down again – The Pirate Bay was inaccessible most of the day Monday after a group representing movie copyright owners forced the BitTorrent search engine's bandwidth provider to cut off service. (CNet)
• Palm Pre re-instates iTunes synch. (Wired)
• RealNetworks has announced that  its Rhapsody iPhone app has been
  downloaded 200,000 times in its first 20 days of availability. But how many go on to pay $14.99 a month and for how long.  And how many will keep paying when Spotify come to the US?
• Record labels are increasingly emphasizing artist-specific social networks and websites over MySpace, Facebook and others.  (Epicenter) I've been preaching this for more than a year. In your own space you can control the experience and capture the data. On MySpace you can't.
  
• EMI Music’s Label Services division and Century Media Records and its roster of progressive rock bands have expanded their relationship adding Australia and New Zealand to North American, Europe, South African and the Middle East where EMI already distributes the label.
• Several Canadian indie labels have formed a new label services company,
  Rock Steady, which aims to help independent artists crack the American
  market. (Reuters)
• MySpace has appointed Mark Rosenbaum as Chief Financial Officer.