Tag Archives: Business

Just the other day I was musing on my ’90s experiences in the Cleveland music scene: DJing clubs and on the radio, writing two books and for various local and national publications, compiling a greatest hits collection for Cleveland. And since Cleveland really isn’t all that big a town (are …

Powerful and emblematic story in the Cool Cleveland newsletter by Lee Chilcote about the entrepreneural perils of running a concert club, trying to turn a neighborhood into a cultural center, and the leak of young creative types to more amenable climes. While the story takes place in Cleveland, it could …

The Knitmedia settlement is significant for two reasons: it puts money directly in the hands of musicians and returns their copyrights to them, and every time a label is held accountable for underpaying it makes others less likely to behave similarly. Knitmedia Inc., which runs the Knitting Factory clubs in …

MTV news talked with a security expert on the murder of Dimebag Darrell Abbott and three others at a Columbus rock club last week, which migh thave been prevented with a $50 handheld metal detector: “It should have been a common practice. It should have been something they had,” said …

Pew’s Internet and American Life Project has just released the first large-scale study of musician and artist views of the Internet, called, strangely enough, “Artists, Musicians and the Internet.” A national survey of self-described artists and an online survey of 2,755 musicians find: Artists and musicians on all points of …

In the jazz and blues recording industry, there could hardly be bigger news if Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday and Miles Davis returned from the dead and put on a free show in Central Park. Concord Records and Fantasy announced yesterday that Concord has completed its acquisition …

Time flies and all of that: American Idol auditions are over and version 4 returns to Fox in January, a mere hop, skip and calendarial jump away. But there is a flurry of activity going on right now with various Idol personages as the machine begins to crank itself up …

compiled by Philippe Astor 10-20-04 MUSIC BUSINESS Robbie album sold on memory card U2 To Release Collectable Atomic Bomb Music Publishers Sign Deal on Web Radio SoundExchange Joins International Webcasting Agreement Downloads Now Top of the UK Pop Charts V2 RECORDS NEXT CUSTOMER FOR MUSICRYPT Warner Music Singapore To Come …

compiled by Philippe Astor 10-18-04 MUSIC BUSINESS Sony BMG Sales Enterprise Taps Clyne, Morelli MIDEM 2005 : More Music Business Than Ever! Promo Only Music Delivery Software Launches New Escrow Service For Songs And Lyrics India : Counterfeit MP3 CDs flood markets DIGITAL MUSIC The End User: New key, old …

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