Fundraisers Planned For Bankrupt Team Rock’s 73 Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Prog Staffers
A fundraiser for the 73 staff made unemployed by the abrupt closure of music magazine publisher TeamRock and its brands Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Prog, the Golden Gods Awards and. Continue reading
2 Big Promotions + 4 New Signings = Cooking Vinyl 11.14.2016
Two key Cooking Vinyl executives got promotions and four new artists got record deals in just another for indie label Cooking Vinyl, currently celebrating their 30th year of releasing often. Continue reading
23% Of CDs Sold On Amazon Are Counterfeit, Say Investigators
As much as 23% of all CD's sold on Amazon are counterfeit, according to multiple investigations. We first reported on the problem two weeks ago after an alert was sent. Continue reading
Spotify Updates Terms And Conditions – 3 Key Issues
Reading a site's Terms and Conditions is only slightly less boring than watching paint dry. Today Spotify updated theirs and fortunately for us all provided a handy summary of the. Continue reading
Cooking Vinyl’s Martin Goldschmidt On 30 Years of Indie Music [INTERVIEW]
In this edition of In The Hot Seat with Larry Leblanc, he sat down with Martin Goldschmidt, the chairman of Cooking Vinyl Group, to discuss the inception of the company,. Continue reading
Social Music Company BandLab Buys Major Stake In Rolling Stone
Even as streaming has helped the music industry right itself, rock journalism is still undergoing major upheaval. In the latest chapter, a Singapore-based social music company acquired a substantial stake. Continue reading
Losses At TIDAL Only Tell Part Of The Story
Following the Wall Street Journal's recent piece showing some rather ominous numbers coming from TIDAL, Jon Maples takes a closer look at some of the streaming services financials, revealing a. Continue reading
Pandora Nears Launch Of On Demand Streaming Service, Overseas Expansion
Pandora could launch their promised on demand streaming music service as early as next month, according to multiple sources. But with Apple, Spotify, Tidal, Rhapsody, Slacker, Soundcloud, Deezer and others fighting for. Continue reading
Entrepreneurship In Music: Mideast Tunes
Here Mideast Tunes founder and civil rights activist Esra'a Al-Shafei discusses her new music streaming platform and its goal of promoting social change as well as the work of underground. Continue reading
