George Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison, believes that starting a standalone website for digitally distributing The Beatles’ music is a practical option. Selling the Beatles back catalogue through iTunes isn’t satisfactory, and an online store could be revealed in the future. Read more...
19.3.09
Dhani Harrison Suggests Standalone Beatles Download Site
Music Games Help Music Sales, EA Teams with Cherry Lane
Music games are combining, and contributing to, both of the former rival industry’s revenues; the NPD group shows that 22 percent of music buyers reported playing a music-based video game in the past three months. Game developers are also teaming up with music labels to promote music through their games, like the joint venture announced today between Electronic Arts and Cherry Lane Music, to create the new music publishing company, Next Level Music LLC. Continue reading...
18.3.09
Live Performance Sales Overtake Recorded Music in UK
The live music business surpassed in value the recorded music of the UK last year. Calculations presented at the International Live Music Conference on Saturday by Will Page, Chief Economist at the Performing Rights Society, give solid indication that the future of the music industry is live. Continue reading...
Slash to Cover Led Zeppelin With String Quartet
Former Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash is going to record a cover of Led Zeppelin’s song Kashmir with electronic string quartet Escala. The artists are set to record in Los Angeles later this week, after being brought together by Escala’s manager Simon Cowell. Continue reading...
New Music Sites: NoiseCreep and Loudcrowd
AOL Music launched a new site today called NoiseCreep, dedicated exclusively to heavy metal and hard rock. After the successful start of AOL’s other genre sites devoted to Rock, Country and Hip-Hop, the new site will provide fans with a place to get heavy metal music and video content. Read more...
17.3.09
Watch SXSW Video Stream via Twitter
For those who aren’t able to attend the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas this year, Twitmatic is providing a real-time stream of SXSW-related videos being shared on Twitter, and a selection of festival-related videos on the collected from the Internet. Read more...
Study Shows Music Training Improves Reading Skills
Findings published by authors Joseph Piro and Camilo Ortiz from Long Island University, USA, show that a multi-year program of music instruction involving rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills gives children better reading skills than their non-musically trained peers. The study was published today in the journal Psychology of Music. Continue reading...
Spotify Adds 110,000 Songs
Spotify, the free streaming music service we’ve mentioned before, has updated their music catalogue today with 22,000 new tracks. Some highlights of the new update are Mr. Oizo, Nightwish, Funker Vogt, Pete Doherty, Melotron, Walls Of Jericho, Motörhead, and much more, so check out the full listing here. Continue reading...
Apparatjik’s New Secret Music
Apparatjik is the brand new project from bassist Guy Berryman of Coldplay, Jonas Bjerre from Danish band MEW and Magne Furuholmen from the legendary 1980’s band A-Ha (remember Take On Me?). Read more...
British Music Experience, Youtube Against PRS, Noripcord's 10th Birthday
No Ripcord celebrates its 10th birthday, we moan about not going to SXSW, Youtube squares up to the PRS, and the British Music Experience opens its doors. Read Noripcord's weekly news digest...
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