Archive for November 2006

links for 2006-11-30

Nov 29th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

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What Universal does with digital royalties
(tags: musicbusiness)

Should Unversal ‘Music’ Group Change its Name to Better Reflect its Litigious Crapulence?
(tags: musicbusiness)

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links for 2006-11-29

Nov 28th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

Jimmy Iovine Gets It…The Music Biz Needs a New Biz Model…FAST
(tags: musicbusiness)

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links for 2006-11-21

Nov 20th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

NPR on Barenaked Ladies unconventional indie marketing
(tags: musicbusiness)

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links for 2006-11-17

Nov 16th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

The Intricacies Of Label Tax

Beware The Label Tax - Forbes.com
(tags: musicbusiness)

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links for 2006-11-16

Nov 15th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

No Money in the Middle
…and the exact same thing is true for making albums for today’s marketplace…
(tags: musicbusiness)

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links for 2006-11-15

Nov 14th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

Government subsidized rock
(tags: musicbusiness)

Now This Is Different For a Major Label
(tags: musicbusiness)

Zune Marketplace’s Absurd Pricing Scheme
(tags: musicbusiness zune ipod)

I’m Not Buying a Zune!!!
(tags: musicbusiness)

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Flutes on the Highway

Nov 12th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Fun

Y’all shouldn’t be practicing on the way to a gig, unless your band’s in a van or a bus driven by someone else. I’m looking at you, flute players.
Technorati Tags: music+business, flutes
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links for 2006-11-11

Nov 10th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

Microsoft, Zune & The Music Mafia
(tags: musicbusiness zune Microsoft RIAA)

Daring Fireball: I’d Buy That for a Dollar
(tags: Microsoft zune musicbusiness)

Techcrunch » On Universal Music Group’s Zune Tax
(tags: zune Microsoft musicbusiness)

NYT : David Pogue takes the Zune down a notch
(tags: musicbusiness zune)

Lindor delivers Constitutional smackdown to the RIAA
(tags: musicbusiness)

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MySpace Bands: It’s Not Your URL!

Nov 8th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: News

When the Fox television network wanted to promote the TV series Bones online, it turned to its corporate sibling, MySpace, for help. Obligingly, they offered up the screen name “Bones,” which would be pretty easy to remember. Except, that screen name already belonged to a band in Louisiana that had put together a list of [...]



Did Faith Hill Just Punk Carrie Underwood on National Television?

Nov 7th, 2006 | By Joe Taylor Jr. | Category: Fun and Television

…that’s what most of the music industry is trying to figure out this morning. According to different sources, Faith is either:
a) Pranking us all.
b) A little confused.
c) Punching her ticket to Diva-land.
I love Gretchen Wilson’s, “I know I ain’t gonna win this, y’all” smile, though. We were watching this on TiVo and had to back [...]