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Radio Airplay in 7 Days (tags: musicbusiness) Don’t confuse celebrities with heroes. (tags: musicbusiness)

BNL’s Steven Page weighs in on Spiral Frog (tags: musicbusiness)

Former Songwriters Guild of America manager pleads guilty (tags: musicbusiness) Laissez Faire In The Studio Forget Autotune, forget multi-tracking. The very best producers in the history of recorded music identified raw talent — and got out of the way. (tags:…

Can Not Knowing About Contemporary Culture Be A Career Liability? “Freston got his job as a CEO of Viacom because he was deeply informed about contemporary culture and lost it because he was not informed enough.” (tags: musicbusiness) David Byrne…

Jordan Knight is Coming Back Hard – On QVC (tags: musicbusiness) Technology News: Social Networking: Music Scene May Be Unchanged by MySpace Move It *will* take a long time for a critical mass of folks to buy music on MySpace.…

The false fight between fun and business (tags: fun business)

Billy Bragg’s back in the news today, calling out MTV for a poorly worded contract that appears to give Viacom unlimited rights to do anything with any content uploaded to its new Flux service. While Flux and other social media…

I think this is an overall brilliant move. MySpace has created an audience that’s craving new music, and Snocap’s finally got a business model and a niche that it can use to succeed. However, I want to raise a note…

MySpace To Sell Music Through Snocap (tags: musicbusiness) Harley Quine (tags: wordpress plugin)

EMI says “Let it be”, The Beatles ask court for “Help” (tags: musicbusiness) SpiralFrog Misses the Point of Digital Music (tags: musicbusiness)

Poet’s love letter is a hoax If you ever thought musicians could be mean to each other, look at what goes on between rival poetry biographers! RIAA “Back to School” Message Attacked as Misleading …and don’t even get us started…