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Endemol and INgrooves Strike Partnerships With MySpace Superstar Tila Tequila (bypassing record industry traditions) We saw this starting to happen a few years ago, but watch these deals accelerate through the end of the decade… (tags: musicbusiness) Latin record shops…

Breaking news: Four very big media conglomerates are getting their hands slapped by the FCC for accepting money, gifts, trips, and promo items in exchange for adding major label songs to their playlists. (Whether or not the songs even got…

Laura Grillo’s a model, not a musician, but the cautionary tale is still the same. MySpace pulled her profile from the site, claiming she violated terms and conditions by posting racy photos of herself. Since her own site isn’t fully…

PaidContent.com’s Jimmy Guterman on the GrammyCast: “the record industry is still run by people still trying to sell older music to older people.” He rightly points out how sales charts in other countries reflect online sales, which is one reason…

Rob Fields, who once handled PR for the Black Rock Coalition, has just launched a new blog called “Bold as Love,” where he’s exploring the question of “how to bring more black folks to the music.” As Rob points out,…

The Anderson Switch (tags: musicbusiness longtail) Triple Your Odds of Getting Music Media Coverage The most powerful question you can ask in the music business. (tags: musicbusiness)

Perform Act (tags: RIAA musicbusiness podcasting radio idiots)

Warner Music CEO Admits His Kids Stole Music (tags: musicbusiness)

Club’s abrupt end surprises customers, city (tags: musicbusiness)

What Universal does with digital royalties (tags: musicbusiness) Should Unversal ‘Music’ Group Change its Name to Better Reflect its Litigious Crapulence? (tags: musicbusiness) 30 seconds is not enough (tags: musicbusiness) Do you need a Web publicist? (tags: musicbusiness) Five resaons…

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

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