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Fitehouse v. RIAA = Free Publicity!
The band Fitehouse combines their stand against the RIAA with a cleverly executed guerilla marketing ploy to get some column inches. This is a really good example of what Dave Hooper likes to call time-release press kits — the initial…
I kept putting this post off…
Our friend Skip Weisman has been leading some great, FREE seminars about beating procrastination. Now, he’s looking for America’s Biggest Procrastinator. Hopefully, someone will enter for them, since they’ll probably put it off until the March 15th deadline. With your…
How many indie bands do you know who make $500,000 in two nights?
We can think of one…
File Swapping: You Get What You Measure
This keeps coming up. The major labels are falling over each other to release P.R. claiming that the RIAA’s lawsuits are working — that file swapping is down. Trouble is, file swapping’s not down — it’s just moving to networks…
Match Point for File Sharing
Like a volley at Wimbledon, here’s another report that shows file sharing really is UP… P.S.: I swear I’m going to bed after this. Too much news today to pass up all these mini-posts!
Sonnyboo
Here’s a team that’s developing an open-source solution to film placement…
Sanctuary Records
Great news from our friends at Sanctuary in the UK, who report a profit in a year when so many other music companies lost their shirts. (I’m looking at you, Antonio.)
See CBC 3
I sure as heck didn’t know what Radio CBC 3 was until I saw this report from a Toronto paper. What a delightfully subversive use of tax dollars — the state-funded CBC has a Skunk Works building new web and…
Bob Mould Blogs!
Bob Mould just launched a weblog!
Cheese and Crackers!
The Cracker Barrel restaurant chain has launched an indie music label! Another example of alternative distribution methods opening up opportunities for independent musicians. And excuses to overindulge at breakfast.
Kindercore Lawsuit Gets Ugly, Expensive
In our little town of Athens, this has been big news. The folks that started Kindercore Records let themselves get bought out a little while back, and things apparently went downhill from there. The out-of-town money guys released a statement…