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Maurice The Fish Records Booms Through Recession, Signs Four Acts
Wed, 19 May 2010 – 21:42:58 +0000 UTC | No Comment
Maurice The Fish Records Booms Through Recession, Signs Four Acts

COLUMN: Maurice The Fish Records, the boutique record label based in Seattle and Los Angeles that has garnered media attention for its thriving business model implementing a low-overhead and high-yielding approach to the marketing of …

Chely Wright 1 – Country Music 0: Is Country Too Staid to Go Gay?
Tue, 04 May 2010 – 22:38:11 +0000 UTC | 12 Comments
Chely Wright 1 – Country Music 0: Is Country Too Staid to Go Gay?

COLUMN: It’s official. Doomsday Fundamentalists will most certainly herald the forthcoming of the End of Days. They’ve been given a sign. What sign would that be, you may ask? Well, of course, I’m referring to …

Music Careers by the Book
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 – 20:06:01 +0000 UTC | No Comment
Music Careers by the Book

COLUMN: You can find many excellent books about music, songwriting, and music publishing. I know because I own some of them, like “All You Need to Know About the Music Business,” by Donald S. Passman, …

The Last Days of United Artists Records (with Comments on the Thirteen Colonies Syndrome and the Masterpiece Theater Effect)
Sat, 17 Apr 2010 – 20:11:47 +0000 UTC | No Comment
The Last Days of United Artists Records (with Comments on the Thirteen Colonies Syndrome and the Masterpiece Theater Effect)

COLUMN: I thought it might be interesting to recapitulate the last days of United Artists Music and Records Group, Inc. (“UAR”) and the circumstances under which Capitol Industries-EMI, Inc. (“Capitol”) acquired it. The information set …

Why Michael Orland is the REAL Winner of American Idol
Sat, 17 Apr 2010 – 18:31:56 +0000 UTC | One Comment
Why Michael Orland is the REAL Winner of American Idol

COLUMN: I know, I know. It’s just a TV show, designed for drama, as human beings are magnetically drawn to personal drama, especially if it’s not their own. Yet being a 20 year veteran in …

Dave Smith Instruments Unveils Mopho Keyboard at Winter NAMM – so What’s Next?
Sun, 17 Jan 2010 – 18:12:14 +0000 UTC | One Comment
Dave Smith Instruments Unveils Mopho Keyboard at Winter NAMM – so What’s Next?

COLUMN: — When the word went out that Dave Smith was going to introduce something “new” at NAMM in January, many of us immediately presumed it would be a keyboard version of the highly popular …

SKYLIFE updates SampleRobot, SampleRobot Essentials and WaveRobot to version 3.08
Wed, 30 Dec 2009 – 18:32:06 +0000 UTC | No Comment
SKYLIFE updates SampleRobot, SampleRobot Essentials and WaveRobot to version 3.08

Berlin, Germany /Music Industry Newswire/ — SKYLIFE announced this week the release of their flagship sample editing application, SampleRobot V3.08. Creating your own software instruments or sample base is getting a lot easier with SampleRobot …

Christopher’s Music Industry Deals for Dec. 12, 2009
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 – 01:35:27 +0000 UTC | No Comment
Christopher’s Music Industry Deals for Dec. 12, 2009

COLUMN: I’m back with our “final” batch of super end of the year deals for musicians, most of which expire very soon, or by end of the month (Dec. 31). Some are “while supply lasts,” …

Christopher’s Music Industry Deals for 11.05.09
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 – 18:29:02 +0000 UTC | No Comment
Christopher’s Music Industry Deals for 11.05.09

COLUMN: Here I am again with a bunch of new music instrument deals. Couldn’t wait a week for these since many of them are only good for a short time, or only during November. If …

Christopher’s Music Industry Deals for 11.03.09
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 – 00:45:30 +0000 UTC | No Comment
Christopher’s Music Industry Deals for 11.03.09

COLUMN: As many of you who know me already know, I’m a bit of a bargain hound, or deal hunter, or whatever you might call it. Every month I get a raft of “wow” deals …

NARIP Events New York: Touring for a Living – How to Make the Mo$t from the Road
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 – 19:34:57 +0000 UTC | No Comment
NARIP Events New York: Touring for a Living – How to Make the Mo$t from the Road

NEW YORK /Music Industry Newswire/ — NARIP New York assembles a top line-up of speakers including agents, buyers and artist managers to discuss the strongest sector of the modern music business: the concert industry. Where …

Blue Launches Encore Series Mics at Esquire Soho
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 – 16:39:03 +0000 UTC | No Comment
Blue Launches Encore Series Mics at Esquire Soho

New York City /Music Industry Newswire/ — Blue Microphones, a leading innovator in microphone technology and design, launched Encore, their new series of live microphones, with an event at Esquire Magazine’s new Signature Space at …

The ‘Reverb Store’ – the Ultimate E-Commerce Solution for Artists and Labels in the New Music Business
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 – 21:45:56 +0000 UTC | No Comment
The ‘Reverb Store’ – the Ultimate E-Commerce Solution for Artists and Labels in the New Music Business

NEW YORK, N.Y. /Music Industry Newswire/ — ReverbNation, the leading marketing platform for more than 450,000 artists, labels, managers and venues, has partnered with Audiolife, the leader in direct-to-fan eCommerce, to create the Reverb Store. …

Review: Open Labs NeKo XXL Gen5 DAW Keyboard Workstation
Sat, 12 Sep 2009 – 22:09:06 +0000 UTC | 4 Comments
Review: Open Labs NeKo XXL Gen5 DAW Keyboard Workstation

REVIEW: I’m a big fan of Open Labs’ music workstation instruments, so I was pretty excited when they announced the rebirth of their XXL model this spring, which was not available last October 2008 when …

Apple Music Event 9.9.09: New iTunes, More Apps, Video – Beatles MIA
Wed, 09 Sep 2009 – 18:20:42 +0000 UTC | No Comment

COLUMN: Applemania 2009. In one of the most anticipated tech stories this week, Apple’s visionary leader Steve Jobs took to the stage at the Yerba Buena center in San Francisco. The initial announcements included a …

Native Instruments Announces KONTAKT 4
Tue, 01 Sep 2009 – 20:24:40 +0000 UTC | No Comment

Berlin, Germany /Music Industry Newswire/ — Native Instruments today announced KONTAKT 4, a new version of the industry-leading software sampler. Taking the unrivalled performance and versatility of KONTAKT for music production, live performance and sound …

Cakewalk announces update to SONAR V-Studio 100
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 – 14:47:43 +0000 UTC | No Comment

BOSTON, Mass. /Music Industry Newswire/ — Cakewalk’s SONAR V-Studio 100 music production studio is taking the recording world by storm offering, as it does, a compact and easy to use solution for a whole variety …

SoundExchange and ‘PurePlay’ Webcasters Reach Unprecedented Experimental Rate Agreement
Tue, 07 Jul 2009 – 21:03:33 +0000 UTC | No Comment

WASHINGTON, D.C. /Music Industry Newswire/ — SoundExchange announced today innovative, experimental new terms for “pureplay” commercial webcasters, covering royalties for the Internet streaming of sound recordings that offer the potential for artists and copyright holders …

Mouse Mic from Blue Shines in New Star Trek Movie
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 – 21:24:58 +0000 UTC | No Comment
Mouse Mic from Blue Shines in New Star Trek Movie

Westlake Village, Calif. /Music Industry Newswire/ — Blue Microphones, a leading innovator in microphone design and technology, announces the movie debut of its Mouse microphone, which appears in the new Star Trek movie (released May …

Musician with ALS Composes Piano Rock Album with One Finger – New CD ‘Toxic Charm’
Tue, 12 May 2009 – 15:10:55 +0000 UTC | No Comment
Musician with ALS Composes Piano Rock Album with One Finger – New CD ‘Toxic Charm’

EAST LANSING, Mich. /Music Industry Newswire/ — Ace Noface, a 38 year old man with Lou Gehrig’s disease, today announces the release of a piano rock CD, “Toxic Charm.” His goal is to leave a …

Interview: New Income Source for Musicians, Songwriters and Publishers
Sun, 03 May 2009 – 16:28:40 +0000 UTC | One Comment
Interview: New Income Source for Musicians, Songwriters and Publishers

INTERVIEW: Music does not hook up with money very often these days. In fact, they’re not even dating. Piracy, both personal and corporate, affects the creators of music in many ways, none of them good. …

iDrum: Ministry of Sound Trance Anthems now available on Apple App Store
Tue, 07 Apr 2009 – 17:15:38 +0000 UTC | No Comment

LONDON, UK /Music Industry Newswire/ — iDrum: Ministry of Sound Trance Anthems lets iPhone and iPod touch owners recreate their favorite Trance tracks of yesterday and today. Starting with professionally produced iDrum kits that emulate …

Toontrack Announces Superior Drummer 2.1 Update
Thu, 02 Apr 2009 – 16:10:17 +0000 UTC | No Comment

Sweden /Music Industry Newswire/ — This major update to Toontrack’s Superior Drummer 2 contains many bug fixes as well as features significantly improving the user experience. It is recommended for all users and is essential …

TC-Helicon announce VoiceTone Synth, offering radical vocal processing in a pedal
Wed, 01 Apr 2009 – 05:00:40 +0000 UTC | No Comment
TC-Helicon announce VoiceTone Synth, offering radical vocal processing in a pedal

DENMARK /Music Industry Newswire/ — Incredible new vocal processing pedal from TC-Helicon: VoiceTone Synth brings together a collection of extreme exotic and contemporary sonic effects, including jagged HardTune effects, classic Vocoder effects, a voice-controlled synthesizer …

Record Label Veteran David Kronemyer Joins Music Industry Newswire as Contributing Editor
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 – 01:44:53 +0000 UTC | No Comment
Record Label Veteran David Kronemyer Joins Music Industry Newswire as Contributing Editor

LOS ANGELES, Calif. /Music Industry Newswire/ — Online-based recording industry publication adds noted music promoter and former record label VP, David Kronemyer to its editorial staff. Kronemyer will contribute expertise on issues related to the …

TC Electronic to distribute Blue and Tannoy in Europe, China and Japan
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 – 15:30:30 +0000 UTC | No Comment

Denmark /Music Industry Newswire/ — TC Electronic has added Tannoy to the growing list of exceptional brands that it is distributing throughout Europe, China and Japan. Tannoy was founded in 1926. After supplying speaker systems …