Digital Music Round Up: Turntable.fm seeks label deals, MOG & Rdio go free,...
In addition to revealing more details about investors in the recent funding round, Turntable.fm has also announced that the company is indeed seeking licensing deal with the four major label groups as...
View ArticleBits & Pieces: Live Nation + UMG, Facebook’s f8 Conference & more…
Monday afternoon saw the official news of a major deal that has been in the works for months that unites Live Nation Entertainment and Universal Music Group in a new pact joining UMG’s management...
View ArticleDigital Round Up: More Spotify, Rhapsody + Napster, Rdio goes free & more…
There seems to be quite a bit of optimism lately in the realm of digital music and what the future holds for subscription services. So far 2011′s album sales are already up from the previous year, with...
View ArticleDigital Round Up: New Google Music plans revealed, Rhapsody stands up to...
Back as a hot topic in the music + tech arena this week is Google Music, which follows the company’s halfhearted initial step into the cloud-music sector earlier this year with Music Beta. Now it...
View ArticleDigital Round Up: New Music Economy, Steve Jobs Bio Reveals iTunes Dealings &...
An article on Rollingstone.com has been getting passed around this week, as magazine contributor and author of music biz treatise, Appetite for Self-Destruction, Steve Knopper, took a stab at outlining...
View ArticleQuick Bytes: (Give It To Me Baby) Digital Royalties Lawsuit Against Universal...
A federal judge is permitting a class-action lawsuit against Universal Music Group to move forward that involves a group led by Rob Zombie and the estate of Rick James. The issue at hand is digital...
View ArticleAnd then there were 3… EMI split, where does it lead?
Universal Music Group and Sony Music continue to dominate the music biz storylines this year with the unpredictable conclusion of the EMI auction, which saw the two industry leaders beating out the...
View ArticleDigital Round Up: Spotify teases with press event invite ala Apple +...
Taking some cues from the Apple playbook, Spotify sent out media invitations yesterday for a global press conference next week in New York on November 30th, with plenty of intrigue including phrases...
View ArticleRound Up: Grooveshark bites itself, Spotify announces apps, major label moves...
Catching up after a turkey hangover, some of what’s happening around the biz… Things are looking messy for Grooveshark, who is facing aggressive legal action from Universal Music Group, with the...
View ArticleNews Bytes: BigChampagne acquired by Live Nation, Rara-who?, Sony & Warner...
Yesterday evening our Twitter feed was filling up with congratulations for BigChampagne, and founders Eric Garland and Joe Fleischer, following the announcement that Live Nation had acquired the...
View ArticleMore from Dive Into Media: Vevo, Spotify & Neil Young
Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff, made the first public statements regarding the video site’s profitability at the digital media conference this week, putting it plainly, “We are making money, yes,” with a...
View ArticlePost Austin News Round Up…
Another SXSW Music week has come and gone, and now you’ve had time to get all those BBQ stains out of your clothes and organize all those new biz cards you got, right? Good, neither have we… Here’s a...
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