Well, not exactly. Music mogul Clive Davis is being replaced by Barry Weiss as Chairman and CEO of Sony BMG, but he'll remain on board as the company's Chief Creative Officer. Not bad for a 74 year-old exec who still knows how to pick out prospective talents and auto-tune...
Just as indie music sites like Pitchfork and Stereogum, launch their own branded music video sites, a major-label newcomer offering HD quality music videos, PluggedIn, is being hailed as a potential next-gen web...
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Branded entertainment is starting to get on my nerves. Musicians are hard up for cash as it is, but are they so desperate that they need to get in bed with the notoriously inauthentic Hilfiger, just to get their...
Time to break out the flannel, the beards, the long hair, the long sleeve waffle-weave shirt underneath the ratty t-shirt, the gunshot jeans, the Singles soundtrack, the work boots, and all that penty up anti-80s...
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As there's no money in record labels anymore, labels have to go where the money is...er...Procter & Gamble?If this kind of 'branded entertainment' is the future of the music business, I don't think I like it....
In a lengthy NY Times magazine feature last fall, Rick Rubin hailed a monthly, subscription-based service model as the potential saving grace for the music biz. Rubin is also the head of Columbia Records, so it's interesting to note that it's Columbi'as parent company,...
Unfortunately, my dear Pumpkins, suing the major record label that you've been signed to for almost two decades isn't going to restore your long evaporated indie cred. Have another Pepsi and relax, Billy. "The...
Universal Music has been searching for a group of monks to record a Gregorian chant album, and their search has ended with Austria's Monastery of the Holy Cross. The monks submitted a video on YouTube, which I...
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The lack of knowledge about the murders of martyred hip-hop icons Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. has plagued the hip-hop community for more than a decade, so salacious suggestions like the one made in the LA...
I thought the days of Big Bad Record Companies messing with the lives of artists on their roster were over. Apparently not. Oh right, it was the days when record companies were able to earn a profit. To quote Lil...
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"The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating his music, that he uploaded copies of his latest album to BitTorrent. TorrentFreak caught up with Benn to learn more about the decision to stop distributors and...
"About one million child safety seats made by Evenflo are being recalled because they could fail to protect children from vehicle side-impacts.The seats being recalled are Evenflo Discovery child safety seat models 390, 391, 534 and 552 made between April 2005 and January 29,...
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Perhaps this is not as much about Suge Knight being a businessman, as it is about how he's handled his 'business'."Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight has been named by police as a member of a notorious gang in a...
This deal is likely to trigger speculation that the Stones may leave their long-term label EMI, following on from other big names like Radiohead and Sir Paul McCartney."The Rolling Stones have signed a...
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The years of plenty of cash have long gone for the recording companies with the advent of downloads and free music via YouTube and MySpace. EMI should have cut their cost years ago, but one gem remains their property portfolio which is worth millions.... "The new owners...