What Apple’s Flash Ban Means For Music. (Billboard.biz) Universal Music Group (UMG) parent company Vivendi said its performance in the first quarter of 2010 was in line with expectations and predicted a modest increase in profits for the full year.... Continue Reading »
Being a Hero… Locally
When you were a kid, who were the people you looked up to and admired? Maybe it was the big name baseball player or the famous golfer. But most likely, the people you looked up to were the ones who you experienced in your every day life – your baseball or softball coach, your Scout [...] Continue Reading »
UK Band Gets $300,000 To Change Their Name
(UPDATED) Exit Through The Gift Shop Door was the name of a band started by 41 year old Simon Duncan in London just 18 months ago. "It was a kind of midlife crisis, but we are still going, with a... Continue Reading »
Try Stoking Your Fans
This guest post comes from Ben Coe who is an artist coach and co-founder of music management and marketing firm The Artist Farm. His work there is designed to help artists of all types and levels succeed in clarifying and... Continue Reading »
MP3Tunes Bumps Free Cloud Storage 5X to 10G
Online music storage locker MP3Tunes has increased the capacity of its free cloud based service from 2G to 10G. That should be enough capacity to store 2000 songs for play on almost any connected device. "The goal is to store... Continue Reading »
TuneCore & MySpace Music Partner For Discounted Distribution Services
Flat fee digital distributor TuneCore has partnered with MySpace Music to offer discounted music distribution services to all the major download outlets. In addition, MySpace Music will provide participating artists a MyAds credit to market and promote on MySpace along... Continue Reading »
More Music Industry News: HP Buys Palm, Blogs Under Attack, Facebook Buttons Spread, Ted Cohen & More
HP buys smartphone developer Palm for $1.2 billion. (MediaMemo) Irish music blogs under attack over royalties. (Guardian) Apple releases iTunes 9.1.1 to fix a few bugs. (MacWorld) Rovi to power metadata for RollingStone.com. (press release) Have Trent Reznor And His... Continue Reading »