BREAKING NEWS

-The Power of Music

Trent Reznor And Twitter Help Raise over $850,000 for Fan in Need -For donations: NIN Store

-Towards a PanEuropean License? Diverging views

EU pushes music industry to open up online rights

Elbonia: Your next (and only) music destination?

-Good news for music streaming sites

For the US: Big Music’s ‘friendlier’ new deal NYT Versions and P2P One

For the UK: Welcome Back YouTube, Pandora? PRS Lowers UK Per-Stream Rates… But Read the Fine Print? Pandora Cries Foul on PRS…
BUZZ

Video: Spotify’s Amazing Android App

Cloud Construction: Spotify Teases Android App…

TRENDS

About the Royalties War Music Industry Sees Nightclubs as a New Source of Revenue

How Twitter is Changing Music

Indie Labels Experience A Major Renaissance Amidst The Upheaval

Mobile Music Keeps Humming As Music Industry Shrinks

Quarterly Data Confirms: US Radio Stations Suffering…

’80s and ’90s bands a big part of summer tours

COMPANIES

Palm Pre Round-Up: Twitter Support Galore; Coming To Verizon; First Impressions; Syncs With iTunes

Microsoft unveils Zune HD and Xbox integration

Nokia Ovi Store: re-reviewed

EMI FInancial Troubles: WSJ and NYPost

About the Last.fm vs TechCrunch Saga

YahooMusic Changes Boost Traffic

MySpace Music Opens Doors On New Weekly Series

Find Concerts for Your Favorite Bands with Songkick

ARTISTS

Jay-Z and Eminem spin a musical game out of ‘DJ Hero’

Placebo reveal private pre-release album playback

Ministry Of Sound Use Engagement Advertising

Applying for your first job in the music industry

7 Insider Tips On Getting More Gigs For Your Band

PassionPit The Orchard Special Sauce Meets Passion Pit…

Loving it!!!

Dr. Dre Teases Long-Awaited “Detox” With Dr. Pepper Ad

ChesterFrench  and How Band Rewards Fans For Burning Their CD And Giving It Away

U2 manager: ‘Ultimately free is the enemy of good’

What You Can Learn From The Pearl Jam Live Experience

READS

The culture of copying

Resnikoff’s Parting Shot: When Digital Reality Sets In…

Interview: Steve Knopper of Rolling Stone and Appetite for Self-Destruction – Part1 and 2

Billboard Interview with Pandora Founder Tim Westergren

Leadership 2.0, and How Not to Achieve it - Umair Haque  on the status of the Music Industry

Music Publishing Terminology by Garry Velletri, Senior VP at Bug Music

QUOTES

Umair Haque

Why is the music industry stuck protecting a rotting core? Because what’s standing in its way is the RIAA. The RIAA is like a megacore, a Voltron of coreness. Because it’s a coalition of record labels, it prevents every label from exploring new strategies, business designs, organizational models, or ideals. The RIAA prevents every record label from learning to interact with others in newer, better ways.

Record labels are caught in a prisoner’s dilemma, and the jailer is the RIAA. Like autoworkers are held fast by unions actively working against their long-run interests, so record labels are trapped by the RIAA. A smart label would break the chains of this self-imposed imprisonment — because until they do, they can never act as leaders.

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