Apple Plans Major Announcement September 1st. Music Appears Part Of The Mix
Apple just issued invitations to a special event Sept. 1st. Speculation is that a 7" iPad and Apple TV will top Jobs' agenda. But the photo dominating the invite is. Continue reading
MySpace Redesigns User & Musician Profiles
MySpace's critics have been complaining about it's confusing design since the service launched, and dissatisfaction may have contributed to the rapid migration to Facebook and that social networker's more functional. Continue reading
AudioOrchard: A New Music Collaboration Service
AudioOrchard is a new web-based service that focuses on the collaborative writing, recording, and sharing of music. Their goal is to enable musicians make music together, without having to coordinate. Continue reading
Weezer Clears Up The Confusion, Denies Everything
Hypebot intern Mike Pineau gets a cookie for digging this up. Yesterday, I wrote about a rather confusing situation where Weezer's Brian Bell confessed, on camera, to having a good. Continue reading
Pandora Adds Genre Stations, Celebrates Birthday
(UPDATED) Happy Birthday To Pandora, Happy Birthday To… Okay, I'll Stop. Just when you thought that you already had 101 reasons why Pandora is pretty awesome, they've gone and added. Continue reading
Top Ten Government Mandates Needed To Save The Record & Music Industries From Ultimate Ruin
Whether or not you agree with U2 manager Paul McGuinness's analysis on how to save the music industry might be beside the point, but it does serve as an opening. Continue reading
MySpace Crawls Back, Adds F.A.N. & Threadbox.
MySpace added two components to its makeover toolkit yesterday with the purchase of social chat startup Threadbox and the integration of parent News Corp's Fox Audience Network (FAN). A major. Continue reading
List Of Top Creditors In Playlist Bankruptcy Filing
Major & Indie Labels Likely To Suffer Major Losses (UPDATED) Documents released as part of the recent bankruptcy filings by Playlist.com show that both major and indie labels are likely. Continue reading
Interview: Chris Vinson & David Dufresne, Founder/CTO & CEO Of Bandzoogle (Pt. 3)
(UPDATED) Kyle Bylin: This new economy for music won't be just about the music itself, but about music as art. From the perspective of urban studies theorist Richard Florida, "Music. Continue reading
Video: How Grooveshark Leverages Their Audience To Help Music Artists & Ted Cohen on the Napster
In this next set of footage from Bandwidth Conference, Hypebot corespondent Danny Dee talks to Grooveshark's Label Relations team: Aaron Ford and Jack DeYoung; they give some great insight to. Continue reading