Jazz Odyssey

From Hits Magazine Online: "In an apparent breakthrough that will stun anyone who has watched as defiant file-sharing companies have thumbed their noses at the record business and angry record labels have worked their lawyers to the bone suing anyone involved with the peer-to-peer swapping of music—even their own customers—newly merged megamajor Sony BMG has [...]

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“No serious band could function these days without a Web strategy.”

This article takes a look at the a couple of the possibilities realized by websites, including commerce (The Darkness and Marillion raising enough money from their websites to finance their recordings) and discusses the impact of online community. The moral of the [...]

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Inspirational quote “I’m not here to say major labels are evil. They’re just not necessary for every artist.” Former major label signed Collective Soul decides to go DIY. More from the Hollywood Reporter here….

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“The Delphi XM MyFi™ is the world’s first XM2go receiver — a personal XM satellite radio.” So reads the sentence atop the webpage of XM’s newest piece of hardware. It’s portable. It’s rechargeable. Most significantly, it records . The ability to record “on the fly” as you listen [...]

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“The Web is obsessed with anything that spreads, whether it’s a virus, a blog or a rumor. And so the Internet loves memes.” An interesting article on memes and measuring their effectiveness….The New York Times Critic’s Notebook: Buzzing the Web on a Meme Machine

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While this article isn’t specifically about an online music marketing initiative, the points Mr. Allen makes are applicable to the music industry and beyond. We as an industry have historically underestimated how savvy our customers are when it comes to their participation in online communities. The days of paying a roomful of interns [...]

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Cut off the head of the Hydra and two more grow to take its place. I’ve heard that analogy a lot from colleagues when discussing the shuttering of Napster and the rise of the Fast Track and Gnutella networks but it isn’t completely accurate. It isn’t just that the number of heads have [...]

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So we’re getting ready to release eMOTIVe, the new album from A Perfect Circle and we’re premiering the album one track per day for the next 8 days. It’s a really cool record, and you can check out the track of the day here.

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Happy Birthday…my blog enters the world today

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