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New Music Releases – October 6, 2009

Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by refe.

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Lot’s of new music this week from the likes of Built to Spill, Mission of Burma, The Raveonette’s, Sufjan Stevens and the Xx’s. Also reissues from Kraftwerk and New Order.

Deconstructing the Week in Music September 21 – October 4

Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by refe.

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

New Music Releases – September 29, 2009

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by refe.

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This week brings us several worthwhile new albums. I am particularly excited about Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains. These guys show a ton of promise and I found this record to be a great listen.
Karen O and the Kids give us an early taste of Where the Wild Things Are with their excellent [...]

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Is Your Release Strategy Driving Fan Engagement – Or Preventing it?

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by refe.

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Modern music marketing is about the artist-fan relationship. Along with live performances, new music releases should be considered the backbone of this relationship, not simply a product to drive revenue or attendance.

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Head of Australian Recording Industry on the New Music Business

Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by refe.

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The new music industry could be effectively broken down into two different camps, with the traditional recording industry on one side and the proponents of the emerging independent DIY models on the other. The two camps rarely see eye to eye, but in many ways the debate between them is quite balanced. The traditional recording industry has all of the [...]

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Copyright and Music – Do Great Artists Steal?

Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by refe.

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Last year guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani filed a lawsuit against Coldplay alleging that ‘Viva La Vida’ contained “substantial, original portions” of a track he put out in 2004 called ‘If I Could Fly.’
Coldplay responded by saying that if the two songs were similar it was purely coincidental. Dozens of video mashups, music theory analyses, and [...]

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Album Review: Castanets – Texas Rose, The Thaw, and the Beasts

Posted on 16. Sep, 2009 by refe.

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Texas Rose, the Thaw and the Beasts is Castanets’ biggest and most ambitious work to date, featuring a full band and bringing to the table a brand new appetite for the epic. It’s a challenging, but oddly accessible collection of music.
The album is something of an enigma – rooted in rustic country-folk, yet twisted and [...]

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Forrester Report: The Way Forward for the Music Industry or a Step Backward?

Posted on 13. Sep, 2009 by refe.

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A new report from the Forrester Research Group has been getting a lot of buzz lately, fueled largely by the fact that due to its hefty $500 price tag very few people have actually read it. Nothing like a bit of mystery to spice up what is being heralded by some as “a plan to [...]

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To Leak or Not to Leak? 3 Ways Artists Can Respond

Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by refe.

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The process of releasing new material has never been airtight. These days, however, digital technology has poked so many holes in the recording industry that it’s beginning to look more like a siv. From Radiohead to Jay-Z to Muse, more and more anticipated releases are showing up online days, even weeks before their official drop.
Leaks [...]