RSS is The Future of Content Delivery
In a week full of bold statements, I am proclaiming one myself.
If you want our A&R team to hear your music, then don’t send a CD, REGISTER A BLOG.
Is this Vox or the A&R Department of Columbia Records??
Is SixApart/Vox sharing AD revenue with SonyBMG ??
Video Explination from
James Lambert-Martin, Sony-BMG UK Digital A&R, and Vox
SonyBMG utilizing Vox for A&R
SonyBMG is not really known in the industry for innovation, openness, or much else positive. Today’s announcement is the first “positive” press I think I’ve ever seen from this meglo-conglomerate. I use “quote” positive “close-quote” because somehow they manage to include some negativity in there… A&R not using blogging will be fired. “Blog refuseniks facing the sack? Sony BMG UK adds blogging to the job description”. Nice.
“Blogging is clearly one of the major trends in music, media and entertainment. It makes complete sense for the major labels to use the process in a creative way to encourage, discover and communicate with new artists.”
Ged Doherty
New Music Economics
Just noticed this 3 part series by Marc Geelhoed at the American Music Center blog.
EMI looses the DRM
EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire
EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli today hosted a press conference at EMI’s headquarters in London where he announced that EMI Music is launching DRM-free superior quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire and that Apple’s iTunes Store will be the first online music store to sell EMI’s new downloads. Nicoli was joined by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The event also featured a musical performance by The Good, The Bad & The Queen.
On this page you can find an audio webcast of the press conference which will be available for live streaming at 1pm London time with on demand archived streaming and MP3 download available shortly afterwards, the press release and a copy of the presentation slides.
Click here to listen to the audio webcast from today’s announcement.
Click here to download the pdf presentation.
Click here for Apple’s press release.
Pop Quiz
What do UB40, Tom Jones, Toby Keith, Tears for Fears, Richard Ashcroft, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, Gewn Stefani, Gomez, Editors, Bill Wyman, Badly Drawn Boy, and Barry Manilow have in common?
From the website:
“In 2000 Willard Ahdritz, Kobalt Music Group’s Founder and CEO, had a vision for a more modern, efficient and transparent music publishing model that would better service the needs of the songwriter and copyright holder. Ahdritz’s experience as the founder of Telegram Publishing, as well as his 10-year management consulting experience for major companies in the financial and transportation sectors, helped him recognize how administration models from other industries, such as financial services companies, could be applied to manage the complex information flow in the global collections process. That vision for Kobalt Music Group was brought together as a co-investment with New Media Spark, the London listed investment group. As part of the initial arrangements, Kobalt Music Group acquired Diesel 2 Publishing and Management AB, a Swedish- based music publishing company founded in 1993 with an established music copyright catalogue which further enhanced the creative expertise in Kobalt.”
Alexandra Patsavas creates Chop Shop Records
Music Supervisor at the top of her game expands the business with Atlantic…
Electronic Arts to form music company in L.A.
From BizJournals.com
Electronic Arts and Nettwerk One Music have formed a joint venture for a new full-service music company called Artwerk, the company said Monday.
The Artwerk label, which will be based in Los Angeles, will sign and develop both new and established artists for publishing, master recording and sync deals. It has signed producer artist Junkie XL, whose tracks appeared in Madden NFL 07 and Need for Speed Carbon games, and is currently in negotiations with several other artists, according to a release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Redwood City-based Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) is an interactive entertainment software company.
The Life House Method?
“As well as making an impassioned plea for more live music over the net at the recent SXSW music festival in Texas, The Who guitarist Pete Townshend announced his first foray into the world of software with the launch of Lifehouse Method. The music-creation software realises an idea from his long-running Lifehouse project.”
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My name is Aaron Morris and this is a Blog about Music Publishing, Music Marketing, and Intellectual Property Management.
I graduated the Music Publishing program at the Berklee Schoool of Music and have a degree in Sound Engineering from Mediatech School for the Recording Arts.
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