Nancy Pelosi recently made the comment that musicians will be better off under Obamacare. They will be able to quit their day jobs and focus all their attention on their creative side. Here are some of her comments: “We see this as an entrepreneurial bill, a bill that says to someone, if you want to [...]
Please see below an exclusive press release from Aardvark Records and their recent agreement for expansion into the Middle East & North Africa. Press Release/26 March 2010 Arab Mobile Content brings Aardvark Records releases to the Middle East & North Africa. PENRYN, CORNWALL (26 March 2010) AMC has signed an agreement to distribute the mobile [...]
I just came across a site called Musicolio. Musicolio calls themselves the Music Network. If you are a musician, you can submit your information to this website to be searched by artists or clients who may require your service. Here is more straight from their website: Musicolio is an interactive, online community created, and monitored, [...]
Jay-Z, Smashing Pumpkins, the Offspring are all set to play at this year’s Summer Sonic Festival in Japan, which runs from August 8 – 9. This festival usually holds around 50k people per show and has been going on since 2000. Other bands making the trip are the Pixies, Nickelback, Sum 41, Slash, 30 Seconds [...]
In case you’ve been living in a cave as of late, Apple computers, ipods, iphones, etc have been killing it. Sales have dramatically increased even through this recession. The latest numbers are now out and Apple is now one of the top 5 companies in the world in terms of market capitalization. Their market cap [...]
Numbers for the Russian Music Industry were recently released. For the most part, they are going down quite fast. CD sales were down 20% from the year before. Radio was down in dollar terms 20-25%. The one upside was live concert revenue. This seems to be a trend all around. Product sales that can be [...]
The latest artist to hit Peru was Beyonce. She just performed at Lima’s Estadio Monumental. Ticket costs were 175 soles (US$61) which is nearly 1/5th an average monthly wage for people in their 20′s. Beyonce is yet another artist who has recently performed in Peru. Peru has an active music loving population who have turned [...]
Beyonce will be performing a concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 25th this year. This is noteworthy because just two years ago, she didn’t play a concert because of dress code requirements which went a little something like this: Female performers are required to cover up in the country, which has various rules for [...]
Creative Man Productions out of Japan has just announced some of the bands that will take part in this year’s Summer Sonic Music Festival. The festival takes place over 3 days in 2 different cities – Tokyo and Osaka. Bands perform in one city one day and the other city the next day. The int’l [...]
