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Deconstructing the Week in Music September 21 – October 4

Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by refe in MUSIC INDUSTRY

Here’s a recap of what went on in the music industry over the past two weeks. Make sure to check out anything you might have missed and leave your comments. Know something we don’t? Submit a story.

Most Popular:

• Copyright and music – do great artists steal? – In light of the Coldplay vs. Satriani settlement we ask the question: is it ever ok to copy another piece of music? Where is the line?
• Head of Australian recording industry on the new music business - A  perspective from the major label side of the industry.

This Week:

• New music releases – September 22, 2009 – Pearl Jam’s Backspacer, new U2, Castanets, Müm, and Monsters of Folk.
• Is your release strategy driving fan engagement – or preventing it? – A “continual stream of creative output” will help keep your fans more engaged, longer.
• New music releases – September 29, 2009 – Cymbals Eat Guitars with Why There Are Mountains, new Avett Brothers, Ghostface Killah, and the excellent soundtrack to Where the Wild Things Are.
• Album review – Sufjan Stevens ‘Run Rabbit Run’ - A surprisingly engaging string quartet re-imagining of Sufjan’s all electronic sophomore album Enjoy Your Rabbit.
• Why music still needs the underground – Market cycles have compacted making it possible for music to go straight from the innovator to the mainstream. Does this mean the underground is dead?

Music Video Picks:

• Kings of Convenience ‘Boat Behind’

This Week in Music History:

1973 Phonogram announced they were increasing the price of their albums from £2.00 to £2.18 and de-luxe albums would go up from £2.29 to £2.38. Oh how things have changed… (This Day in Music.com)

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