links for 2007-04-05 April 4, 2007 / Joe Taylor Jr. / News By Ken Levine: American Idol this week (tags: musicbusiness americanidol) Hawaii Business Magazine Profiles iTunes Artist “The music business is costly. To make the master copy of a CD usually runs around $30000.” (tags: musicbusiness itunes) PoughkeepsieJournal.com – Film takes hard look at music business Before the Music Dies screens in Woodstock this week. (tags: musicbusiness) Ian MacKaye fights all-ages show shutdown in DC. (tags: musicbusiness) If you want A&R attention, forget sending a demo. Just start a blog. (tags: musicbusiness) SellABand Music Model Gaining Traction (tags: musicbusiness) Ticketmaster gets into the fan club business. (tags: musicbusiness) Music Marketing 2.0 (tags: musicbusiness) All that MySpace spam — cleaning up? (tags: musicbusiness) David Byrne: Who needs music labels? (tags: musicbusiness) Generosity as strategy (tags: musicbusiness)