Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Friday September 15th, 2006
– A look at how the having Billboard’s Number #1 CD in the country isn’t what it used to be. (Washington Post) – A new study shows that music taste. Continue reading
Gawker Media Launches Idolator Music Blog
Blog publisher Gawker Media has just launched music blog Idolator. They claim to want to get beyond the snobishness of many of the current music and fan blogs, but their. Continue reading
Zune Is Here!
COVERAGE OF TODAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT: Gizmodo Engaget PC Magazine cNet Summary: 3 inch screen, video, 30 gig hard drive, preloaded with music, FM tuner, wireless, upgradable software. Not earth shatteringly innovative,. Continue reading
B-Side Grabs “Before The Music Dies” Film
Innovative film distributor BSide Entertainment has grabbed the North American rights to "Before The Music Dies". The film which was a hit at SXSW and on the festival circuit takes. Continue reading
Universal Attacks MySpace And YouTube
Yesterday Universal Music Group Chairman Doug Morris attacked social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube arguing that the sites assist users in violating copyrights of music videos and other content.. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Thursday September 14th, 2006
– Microsoft is set to unveil the Zune player and store to the press at 9AM PST today. The Seattle Weekly looks inside the team whose job it is to. Continue reading
Coalition of Independent Music Stores Top 200 for Week Ending 9-10-06
Pos. ARTIST | TITLE 1 DYLAN*BOB|MODERN TIMES 2 AUDIOSLAVE|REVELATIONS 3 LAMONTAGNE*RAY|TILL THE SUN TU 4 IRON MAIDEN|MATTER OF LIFE AND 5 BEYONCE|B’DAY 6 ROOTS|GAME THEORY 7 WARD*M.|POST-WAR 8 OLD CROW. Continue reading
Hypebot’s New Music Industry Briefing For Wednesday September 13th, 2006
– As predicted Apple is now in the movie download business. The move includes tiered pricing – something record labels want desperately and a coming iTV player which allows playback. Continue reading
Blogmusik.net – A Free Virtual iPod
It’s the original Napster…version Web 2.0 Acting like a personal jukebox with one heck of a music library, new site Blogmusik offers an iPod-like interface where you to type in. Continue reading
Broadjam Delivers Indie Tracks To Radio, But It’s No Bargain.
Broadjam, one of several sites who enable indie musicians sell downloads direct to fans has added "Radio Delivers" to it’s suite of services. Using the same company and technology that. Continue reading
