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Metallica in Peru
Metallica played in Peru this past week and sold 50,000+ tickets. They are another band in the line of 80′s & 90′s rock and roll bands that have gone to this rock&roll loving South-American crowd. I’ve written often about the ability for bands in the USA to sell massive numbers of tickets to audiences outside [...]
Outsourcing the Soundtrack
Molly Nyman and Harry Escott, soundtrack producers for the movie “Shifty,” have partnered with Indaba Music to allow musicians around the world to submit ideas for a remix of one of the soundtrack songs. This is a brilliant idea on the part of Molly & Harry. And think of the further implications for this idea… [...]
Matt Thien in Africa – 10 Songs in 10 Days
A good friend and fellow Atlanta musician just announced this press release regarding a very cool trip he is taking to Africa: Atlanta Based Singer/Songwriter Heads to Africa to Write 10 Songs in 10 Days ATLANTA, GA — A newcomer to the Atlanta music scene, Matt Thien, announced today he will travel to Kenya, Africa [...]
Australian Music Festival
Australia continues to hit up the international music scene. I wrote a blog back in July about Queensland’s initiative to promote their local bands overseas as part of an ‘art fund.’ The initiative had a great response and has been a big help to Australian bands looking to build a presence overseas. Now, the Australian [...]
MTV Music
MTV is launching it’s own music video website at mtvmusic.com. This comes at a time when Universal Music is considering a similar site. The MTVmusic site will contain a wide variety of music videos and music-related content. It will also allow users the ability to post the videos within blogs, emails, and websites. This is [...]
Indaba Music
Indaba Music has some exciting things going on with their website. First of all, there is a re-mix contest with the Roots band. The contest consists of 2 rounds. The first round is judged by Indaba users and the second round by judges. You re-mix one of their songs. If you are the top winner, [...]
Streaming Copyright Costs
I wanted to write a quick blog about the cost for websites to stream live music. Earlier this year, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) set the following performance rights license per play rates (also applied retroactively): – 2006 – $0.0008- 2007 – $0.0011- 2008 – $0.0014- 2009 – $0.0018- 2010 – $0.0019 So how does [...]
Old Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons should apply to work at some of the record labels. His mentality fits right in. Here are some recent comments: “The record industry is dead, it’s six feet underground, and unfortunately the fans have done this.” “They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to [...]
Digital Collaborations
I like to track the collaborations going on in the music industry. In this time of business model upheaval, who’s dating who tends to point to future trends. Especially in the area of the major record labels dating the new kids on the block (the internet start-ups). The first collabo is between Universal and last.fm. [...]
Social Networking Sites & The Labels
It is quite amazing how much pull the record companies still enact over new music website start-ups. Many sites have been removed from the internet due to the lack of blessing by the labels. The latest casualty is last.fm as Warner has pulled its music from the site due to compensation rates. The companies are [...]
