vs. Day 2 YouTube's battle with music licensing body PRS which led to takedown of music videos in the UK continues with both sides taking their battle public and some of the effected players and usual pundits weighing in. A Google EU exec spoke out about the dispute. (paidContent UK) “We’ve...

COMMENTARY:  By suddenly taking down music videos in the UK, Google's YouTube proved that it could walk away from the table. Music videos, particularly those just in the UK, are something that the mighty Google can live without. Anyone who has ever been involved in high stakes negotiations has prob...

Recently Mike B decided to create a presence on Facebook for his blog GarageSpin which focuses on trends and technologies for garage-based home recording studios with great side  trips looking at the challenges and opportunities that indie musicians face.  Social networking giant Facebook is an op...

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Following the leak of their new album, indie rockers the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are digitally rush releasing "It's Blitz" digitally to the beginning of next week, several weeks prior to the original street date. The date of the physical format release remain the same.  The band wrote on their web site: Th...

It is important to interact with current and potential fans in as many places as possible, but finding the time to keep them all updated can be difficult. And there's nothing worse then visiting a band's pages and seeing that it hasn't been updated in weeks.  Did they break up or are they just lose...

Jim Griffin is an adviser to WMG and founder of Choruss - a plan to license music at the ISP level on college campuses and beyond.  His keynote at last week's Digital Music Forum East is causing buzz across the net. The interest is not just because Griffin finally some Choruss details, but also bec...

Building the right team to support and promote your music is essential. But along the way it's important to to remember that quite often you are your own best salesman. A good manager, agent or publicist has contacts and skills including salesmanship that will help move your career forward.  But no...

GUEST POST: Australian based digital strategist Nick Crocker sat down for Hypebot with The Hype Machine's Anthony Volodkin. For music lovers, Hype Machine is an essential filter. With increasing ad-revenue and affiliate sales, the site’s founder Anthony Volodkin has assembled a small team to manag...

Yesterday Hypebot profiled indie band Officer Roseland's offer to pay fans $1 to download their new album. The promotion drew strong comments from some readers who thought the scheme devalued the band - and indie music in general. The band's Dan Daidone responded to the controversy: Our initial inte...