Pitchfork Looks At Music Recomendation Sites. How Can They Tell Us What We Want To Hear?
Pitchfork’s Chris Dahlen takes a long and thorough look at the promise and pitfalls and differences between the growing number of music recommendation schemes like Last.fm and Pandora: "Music discovery. Continue reading
MyBlogTunes Adds Free Custom Music Streams To Blogs
MyBlogTunes provides a free and easy way for bloggers to add a self-programmed net broadcast to their sites. In a brief test it was incredibly easy to sign up and. Continue reading
New Music Industry Briefing For Tuesday May 23, 2006
A NYC judge has settled the rootkit copy-protection lawsuits against Sony BMG offering free downloads to millions. (AP) – EMI today reported that full-year net profit rose 14% with market. Continue reading
iTunes Offers Storefront Customization To Radio Web Sites
Two Emmis owned Hip-Hop stations Power 106 in LA and HOT 97 in NYC have teamed up with Apple to offer the first full integration of the iTunes Music Store. Continue reading
LA’s The Gig Debuts Ambitious Live Net Broadcast Schhdule
One of LA’s premier showcase clubs’ The Gig is joining the net broadcasting revolution. The venue owned by writer/director Peter O’Fallon will stream and archive virtually every live performance at. Continue reading
Sire Creates Virtual Loft For Regina Spektor Listening Party
Next week, Sire Records will launch an interactive virtual listening party in a virtual NYC loft for anti-folk chanteuse Regina Spektor‘s 4th CD due June 13th. The online party will. Continue reading
Disney Learning From Music Industry’s Mistakes
Disney chief Robert Iger used the music industry as a whipping post when describing the reasons behind his company’s decision to give away free downloads of its most popular TV. Continue reading
Pearl Jam Goes Viral Offering Video Free Via Creative Commons License
The new music video for Pearl Jam’s "Life Wasted" has just been released under the Creative Commons license which allows fans to legally copy, distribute, and share the clip. This. Continue reading
OLD SCHOOL NEWS: BMG Explores Sale To Sony But Prospect Dim
This is the week that Bertelsmann, the privately held parent corp of the BMG half of Sony BMG must decide to take a loan for $5 billion to pay off. Continue reading
Worth Quoting
Apple needs — and customers deserve — vigorous competition. But that’s not going to happen if the best Apple’s rivals can manage is a combination of beta software of dubious. Continue reading
