February 10, 2012
Warner Music Group spent less last quarter but still had a flat holiday season. Andre 3000, James Murphy and Gorillaz are teaming up to ...
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February 2, 2012
Sony just reported a $2.9 billion loss this year due to the strong yen, flooding in Thailand and the dismal worldwide economy. Song-tagging app ...
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January 26, 2012
Over the years you may have asked yourself: “Why don’t we have a Simon Cowell DJ competition show?” Well, the powers that ...
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December 2, 2011
DIY music blog Altered Zones is disbanding. For years, the blog has hosted great events, highlighted experimental music and promoted independent acts across ...
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November 18, 2011
The Internet wants you to know Congress might pass a law to censor the Internet. The act in question is called SOPA (the ...
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November 11, 2011
Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and he’s now on suicide watch. The EMI sale could ...
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November 4, 2011
In a further effort to restructure the company, Clear Channel has hired a brand new brand management team. EMI has partnered with ...
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October 28, 2011
Clear Channel introduced another round of huge layoffs. Knoxville’s 90.3 “The Rock” FM was voted the most improved radio station at the CMJ 2011 ...
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October 14, 2011
In the newest Chipotle ad featuring decent musicians, Karen O covers a country song. Edward Sharpe, the Plain White T’s and others ...
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October 7, 2011
Steve Jobs died on Wednesday from a rare form of pancreatic cancer. The life expectancy of this type of cancer is five months; ...
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September 30, 2011
Napster co-founder Sean Parker and billionaire Ron Burkle are supposedly teaming up to make a bid for EMI. Spotify added a “private ...
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September 23, 2011
iTunes has a new adversary—Facebook. Read about the rest of Facebook’s music plans unveiled at the f8 conference here. Universal ...
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September 16, 2011
DJ Mehdi died while celebrating his birthday in Paris this week. The death was reportedly an accident and was caused when the roof ...
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September 9, 2011
Tiny Swedish label X5 topped the classical music charts last year, with sales on par with Universal. If you want to start a ...
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September 2, 2011
On Thursday Spotify released its code to iOS developers. This means any company can use the Spotify service as part of their iPod, ...
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August 26, 2011
The Sunset Junction music festival, planned for this Saturday, was cancelled after the City of LA denied the festival a permit. Apparently, the ...
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August 19, 2011
A lot of people have questions regarding the collapse of a 50-foot-high stage at a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair on ...
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August 12, 2011
PIAS and Sony have been working around the clock in response to Tuesday’s fire at a London-based Sony distribution center. The fire, ...
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August 5, 2011
Walwart has teamed up with Ticketmaster. The plan is to sell concert tickets from in-store video screens at Walmarts across the country, making ...
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July 29, 2011
Ever since Amy Winehouse’s tragic death last weekend, sales for the late British songstress have grown tenfold. In the 36 hours following Winehouse’...
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July 22, 2011
• Heineken had to pull an advert featuring a cover of the Dead Kennedys’ song “Too Drunk To Fuck” because of complaints that it ...
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July 15, 2011
The Swedish-based music service Spotify was finally released in the United States yesterday, and it is the internet’s cute, new puppy nobody ...
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June 23, 2011
This week in music news… • Music industry jobs took some particularly nasty hits, with Universal Music Group laying off 20 staffers at its Motown ...
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June 16, 2011
Pandora followed in the footsteps of other online start-ups when it went public this week, valuing its initial public offering, or I.P....
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June 9, 2011
Apple officially joined the cloud competition this week when the company announced the launch of its iCloud music service. The announcement came straight ...
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May 26, 2011
A “Dude, where’s my bus?” moment has ended in justice for mellow indie-rock supergroup Gayngs. A Nashville, TN, jury awarded the band ...
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May 19, 2011
LimeWire agreed last week to pay the RIAA and 13 major record companies—including Sony, Warner, Atlantic and others—$105 million, bringing an end to ...
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May 12, 2011
As anticipated, Google is finally planning to launch its new cloud-like music service. The new Music Beta By Google will allow users to ...
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May 6, 2011
Warner Music Group has been sold to Len Blavatnik and his Access Industries for $3.3 billion in an all-cash transaction. The meeting to choose ...
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April 21, 2011
Google pulled the Grooveshark music app from the Android Market earlier this month at the request of the RIAA and accusations of copyright ...
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April 7, 2011
The Recording Academy announced yesterday that it plans to decrease the number of Grammy categories across all genres. The revised category count drops ...
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