Go there.  It is an amazing resource for all things music industry…

What’s that you say?  You don’t need to be constantly barraged with more news from another website?  Bah!  You should know everything and and everyone in the industry…here is a good place to start (after our little blog, of course): musicindustryreport.org.

Well, DRM free, anyway.

iTunes just announced that they are now going to be offering their music with no strings attached.  Yep, you own it.  The thing is, if you want to upgrade your existing songs to DRM free…that’s gonna cost you $.30 a song.  Here’s to hoping you only have 10 songs…

Check out the full article here

I have been having a lot of conversations with artists about copyright issues.  To clear things up, here is some suggested reading: http://whatiscopyright.org/

 We’ve been getting some attention over here thanks to Sleeping Naked.  Check it out here

A record label is nothing more than a sponsor.

Are  your fans your sponsor?

A few weeks ago, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) held their annual gathering of audiophiles, industry types, and music nerds in San Francisco, and some amazing gear was demoed, reviewed and drooled over. There were also some amazing panels with inspiring speakers discussing the future of our business. Despite all of the weird stuff happening with the economy, and everyone thinking that the music biz is in the toilet, a positive message came about. It seems that, much like the economy, all of the glut and greed of the record industry has caught up to the people calling the shots, and now there are consequences for poor judgment.

Fortunately, the one consequences is that an artists’ career can be controlled by the artist. You no longer need a massive distro deal to get your music heard across the country (or globe). You just need about $35 and about an hour of time, and BOOM you are set up with about 40 digital music stores, and your music is available anywhere. That’s really not the news, though. We have all known about he wonders of CD Baby and iTunes for quite some time now. The new issue is that since anyone can do it, everyone is doing it and the market is flooded with content.

However, industry-types have noticed the rising waters, and many are well prepared. Have a look at Chris Stone’s keynote speech (bulletin points) at the AES conference. Looks like he found some answers…

Feel free to give us a call…

finally, a MySpace 2.o. What does this mean? Well, not too much, since most bands won’t likely upgrade. Turns out all of the old code (you know, the stuff that makes your page look cluttered and takes for ever to load) will be rendered obsolete when you switch over.

Good news is, you can stay with 1.0 if you would like.

read about it here.

Guess what!  There’s an awesome article in there about us written by Kevin Walker.  If you saw the article and came to the site because of it, let us know!!