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iMeem Wipes The Slate Clean With $6 million... →

iMeem may go down in the history books as the little company that could. The service morphed from an instant-messaging centric social network into a widget service to a full on music streaming service (read an early post by us on iMeem here). Over the years they’ve been close to shutting down more than once. And yet, they’re still here, and still fighting. In May news broke that iMeem may have...

Sep 30th

Sep 29th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →

The Beatles (59) Arcade Fire (22) White Lies (15) Notorious B.I.G. (11) Santogold (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Sep 29th

Detroit Scuffle: Eminem's Record Company Goes To... →

Eminem’s record company, Eight Mile Style, gave their opening statement today in a trial over iTunes sales of Eminem’s songs, which Eight Mile says Apple has no rights to distribute. Detroit Free Press: Eight Mile Style contends that Apple earned $2.58 million from iTunes downloads of various Eminem songs. This morning, Eight Mile attorney Richard Busch said during his opening...

Sep 29th

Project Playlist Pushes The Line Between Music... →

If there is a poster child for the battered Web music startup, Project Playlist is it. The company had to fight lawsuits from the record labels, is still trying to iron out licensing deals with those labels, lost its last CEO Owen van Natta to MySpace, lost its CFO Mike Sheridan, and by the looks of it is losing its audience. What else could go wrong? Well, it looks like the self-styled music...

Sep 29th

Can Vevo Monetize Music Videos and Help Save the... →

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The plot to save digital music — or one of them anyway — is being hatched in midtown Manhattan, where Vevo, a digital joint venture between two labels representing nearly 60% of the U.S. recorded music market — Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment — is gearing up for a planned December launch. Announced earlier this year, Vevo is...

Sep 29th

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Songkick integrates Twitter to go realtime and... →

Very cool for someone who tweets from shows like me…. Hot London-based live music startup Songkick launches a new feature today allowing users to share their experiences of gigs. Users can now connect their Songkick account to their Twitter account and auto-tweet any gigs they plan to go to. That’s not that big a deal. What is pretty interesting however is how they’ve integrated Twitter to...

Sep 27th

Verizon Pays ASCAP $5M Interim License Fee For …... →

The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) recently made the ridiculous assertion that cellphone ringtones are to be considered “public performances” of music under the Copyright Act and thus require a license. As Ars Technica eloquently pointed out, the claim is ridiculous because after all one doesn’t need a public performance license to drive around town in a convertible...

Sep 27th

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Twones: Delicious for Streaming Music →

If you’re the kind of music lover with playlists strewn across multiple web services, then Twones is the tool for you. Twones is best described as Delicious or Friendfeed for streaming music. The early beta site allows users to bookmark and organize music from more than 23 music services including Last.fm, Hype Machine, MOG and even MySpace. The company offers an audio footprint of where...

Sep 27th

NEW: Pandora Adds Music Videos →

Streaming music service Pandora added a new feature today: music videos. Every Saturday, Sunday, and Monday the site will feature new artist-produced music videos on the site. If you launch any of the studio-version videos in a browser window, Pandora () will continuously play the rest of the available videos in alphabetical sequence. It’s not quite as full-featured as the main music service...

Sep 25th

Pandora: From Near-Death to Profitability in a... →

I’ve always liked how outspoken Tim Westergren of Pandora is. He’s not one of those all-too-common founders who puffs up his chest and gives rationalizations for why everything is great even as user numbers are sliding or a competitor is stealing momentum. When his company is in trouble—which Pandora was for most of its life—he’ll tell you in excruciating detail, even down to ugly employee...

Sep 25th

Sep 24th

Rock Concert Photography: 9 tips on how to get the... →

9 Tips for better rock photography. [link]

Sep 23rd

GigLook →

Great hack from Music Hackday. A visual look at music events happening in Berlin in the next 30 days. Link

Sep 21st

The music industry should learn from #MusicHackday →

Inside the Radialsystem V in Berlin, one of the city’s “new spaces for the arts”, the second Music Hackday has begun. There’s a real buzz of excitement within this diverse collection of people, some traveling from as far away as Boston, Stockholm, London and Amsterdam, who have just 24 hours to conceptualize, build and present the best possible ‘music hack’. This is a new type of event for the...

Sep 21st

The Five New Music Companies Getting It Right

echolot: Topspin Media Spotify SoundCloud Hype Machine Bandcamp I like this list by nickcrocker. What about a follow-up post about why these companies made your list?

Sep 19th

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