Sound Recording Industries

A Summer Wonderland

Hollywood Websites Attacked by Anonymous Hackers in Wake of Megaupload Bust, SOPA Support

Hollywood might be on the offensive when it comes to limiting your internet freedom (via the controversial and moribund Stop Online Privay Act), but it appeared to be against the ropes today following the U.S. Justice Department's takedown of file storage sight Megaupload at the behest of the conten ... More >>

The Bill To Stop Online Piracy Would Totally Fuck Up Music Blogs

By Gabrielle Canon Over Thanksgiving weekend, 2010, a Homeland Security division wrongfully seized a hip-hop blog called Dajaz1, on allegations of copyright infringement. The site -- which got some 3,000 hits a day or so -- was run by a guy from Queens known only as Splash. As you can see on the C ... More >>

The Sublime Webb Sisters

Kreayshawn: Overnight Sensation

Go to Rhino Records! The Westside Music Institution Temporarily Re-Opens Today as Pop-Up Shop

Go to Rhino Records! The Westwood Music Institution Temporarily Re-Opens Today as Pop-Up Shop

Film, Music Industries Whine To White House About Online Piracy

​Several film and music industry groups urged the White House this week to do all it can to stop online pirates from taking a bite of Hollywood's bottom line. The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the Motion Picture ... More >>

A&R Star Makers: The Vanishing Gatekeepers

The once-powerful executives have become an endangered species

Grammys' Social Media Rock Star Summit: Music Fans at the Forefront of Digital Culture

Melissa Jun RowleySocial Media Rock Stars: Digg's Kevin Rose and Mashable's Pete Cashmore​For more than half a century the Grammy Awards have been the pinnacle institution of American music. (But that doesn't mean the tone of the show and the brand itself have to be institutional.) While the ... More >>

Why EMI's YouTube Policy Is Short-Sighted

On Monday, rock band OK Go issued a statement through its fan forums regarding the release of its latest album as well as the music video for "This Too Shall Pass." Specifically, it's the video that has fans riled. You see, OK Go is affiliated with EMI and, like all bands who are part of that major ... More >>

Town Hall Meeting at Grammy Museum

Boxes in Flux: Where the Action Is!

Rhino Records’ landmark volume captures an important moment in L.A. music history. But does it also mark the end of an era?

LA Labels Recovering from Lumberjack Mordam's Closure; Where Do They Go Next?

It was the e-mail that every record label dreads. At the beginning of July, Toledo-based distributor Lumberjack Mordam Music Group informed its clientele that it was no longer in the music distribution business. It was the latest chapter in the saga of a struggling music industry that includes Feb ... More >>

Digital Hollywood on the Music Industry: Still Doomed?

The Internet has the capacity to ruin some and propel others to stardom. The file-sharing site Napster turned the band Metallica into joke fodder, launched Radiohead into the US Top 20 for the first time and uprooted an entire Industry along the way. Nowhere was this more apparent than at Digital Ho ... More >>

Bug Music's Commercial Zone

Helping to fill the pockets of indie bands now that CD sales have dried up

Google's New Killer App? Why Are Music Bloggers' Posts Disappearing, and Who Is Deleting Them?

Fanning the Fame: Rapper Fannius Makes the Journey From Disney to the Viper Room

Unhappy as clean-cut rap star, Fan 3 finds new indie voice on being dropped by studio and record label for smoking pot

Confessions of a Promo-CD Junkie: Who Will Stop the Music Industry Gravy Train?

With so much music available at the click of a mouse, do tastemakers really need hard copies anymore? Is it worth the waste?

5 Albums in 9 Years = VP at EMI

New EMI VP to bank on the awesome power of Rush to revitalize the music industry in the 21st century Once upon a time the people who ran record labels were quite simply music freaks. They were producers like Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic, tastemakers like Tony Wilson at Factory, or musicians like Ian M ... More >>

It's not the technology stupid!: Romantic & pragmatic thoughts on what consumers want from recorded music

CDs are kind of fucked, but so are radical new models of music consumption. The key to selling music is still not about convenience, price, or practicality. It is about obsession and possession and most of all object fetish.

Resolved: If a greying man promises you he's going to revolutionize the music industry, be skeptical.

Allan Klepfisz, CEO of Qtrax, telegraphs the company's death spiral. Lesson: Do not trust graying, comfortable men when they tell you they've seen the future.

Chris Anderson Wired explain the business of free.

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson explains how the new "free" economy is turning buyer-seller transactions into an ecosystem of many parties, only some of whom exchange cash.

Bedroom Confidential: New Crop of Boutique Record Labels in Town

Corporate counterparts may want to study this model

Mixed Messages

The mixtape scene slowly rebounds nearly a year after DJ Drama’s bust

Sucking in the '70s

How deep is your love?

Shit & Payola

Radio killed the radio star

Grokster Bites the Dust! Ho-hum

At least Modest Mouse got name-dropped in a Supreme Court case

A Small New Future

ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

3 Myths About the Recording Industry Debunked

The Story in the Soil

The Omaha rock scene, the world of the flyover people, the future of the music business, and one vicious head wound

Letters

Music Industry Puts Troops in the Streets

Quasi-legal squads raid street vendors

The Big Dirt Napster

A digital new era finds the labels asleep

Power to the Peer

you can lead consumers to music, but can you make them pay?

Attack of the Widget People

Pop Sensation Dot-com

Dumped by your label? Start designing your Web site

Independent Music’s Right to Fight

The record industry sued Napster and has just inhaled MP3.com. Is there a future for music on the Internet? Analog Pussy thought so... Then they got a scary e-mail...

This Is Our Music

The Napster museum of cultural heritage

Loving and Leaving the Phonograph

Why Napster, extraterrestrials, Southern hillbillies and Dick Clark mean more to the future of music than copyright and the Recording Industry Association of America

A Pirate’s Life for Me

How Napster restored my faith in the Internet (and why the RIAA can’t take it away)

Thieves Like Us

MP3: Recontextualization is your best entertainment value

From Lollapalooza to IPO

Festival founder Marc Geiger bets on online music

My Favorite Pirate

Record biz romances some tech sites, clobbers others. What gives?

TCB Rock

Thank the makers of Incubus

Sleeping With the Enemy

An inside look at the record industry's digital-download security plan

Wait-and-Switch

Why is Amazon.com debuting free digital downloads?

Sonic Surfers

Web radio: Freedom of choice is just a keystroke away

Downloading the Future

The MP3 Revolution — the End of the Industry as We Know It

The Rules of the Game

Robert Fripp on the profession of music

Business Aims