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Jared Leto’s Last Bike Ride Of 2009
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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Jared Leto is a really big fan of bike riding … as we learned back in October, he and his band 30 Seconds to Mars met up with a few dozen friends/fans to film a music video for their new single Kings + Queens with bike riding as the theme of the vid .
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Record labels seeking profits in T-shirts, tours
Regina :: Canada | over 3 years ago
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Ravaged by dwindling music sales and rampant piracy, major music companies are bulking up expertise in an area of the business they used to ignore: T-shirts, baseball caps and other artist merchandise. EMI Music said this week it is buying
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Simon Cowell Gets $1m Banksy For Christmas
London :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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For Christmas, execs at Cowell’s record label, Syco, commissioned graffiti artist Banksy to do a reproduction of Degas’ 1874 masterpiece Rehearsal Of The Ballet On Stage , featuring the American Idol judge. “Record label execs wanted something unique
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Raunchy Rihanna Photoshoot Risked Relationship With Record Label
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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28pm EST Post a comment Add to My News Rihanna 's semi-naked photoshoot for GQ magazine was so raunchy, she faced the wrath of her record label boss Antonio 'L.A.' Reid. The singer posed topless with just her arms covering her modesty for the
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Higher iTunes Prices? How Much Goes To The Artists?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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How Much Goes To The Artists? from the well,-how-about-that dept Earlier this year, Apple finally agreed to strong pressure from the major record labels to introduce variable pricing on iTunes -- which officially would make some popular songs $1.29
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Record labels seeking profits in T-shirts, tours
London :: United Kingdom | over 3 years ago
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Ravaged by dwindling music sales and rampant piracy, major music companies are bulking up expertise in an area of the business they used to ignore: T-shirts, baseball caps and other artist merchandise. EMI Music said this week it is buying
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Morrissey apologises for 'meek disaster' of Swords album
Swindon :: United Kingdom | over 3 years ago
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In a wide-ranging end-of-year statement, Morrissey has praised Dublin, thanked Swindon's hospital , and apologised for the "meek disaster" of his latest album. The "market-driven" music industry, he complained, is more concerned with "the campaign"
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Understanding The Decline And Fall Of The Major Record Labels
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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Obviously, music as commerce is an important part of the music business, but if you ignore the cultural importance of music (except, of course, when lobbying the government for more protections) you miss what's actually happening in the marketplace:
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Getting Past The 'But Artists Should Just Be Artists' Myth
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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It's a claim that is made over and over again -- sometimes by musicians themselves. In the past, we've pointed out that this is fine, if artists just want to be artists then they need to do one of two things: either not expect to make much money or
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Vevo revs up with EMI
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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EMI Music has joined forces with Vevo, the online music and entertainment service powered by YouTube and co-founded by the Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. The announcement comes on the eve of the service's splashy U.S.-Canadian
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