Download to Computer, iPhone, or iPod If you are curious to know whether the video industry is at the threshold of “Napsterization� much like the record label business was ten years ago, this video is for you. It is hard to believe that it was fully ten years ago that Shawn Fanning unleashed Nap...

On February 6, 2007 Steve Jobs wrote his “Thoughts On Music” on the Apple website. He explained Apple’s need to ‘license rights to distribute music from others,’ mentioning Universal and the other large record companies. This ubiquitous statement may now be the death nell for alrea...

  Now we officially want to punch the economy in the vagina (sorry, the vulva). Beloved Chicago label Touch and Go Records is shutting down distribution. [Pitchfork] Even Madonna is co-opting vampire culture. Apparently she wants a role in New Moon, the sequel to Twilight. [AfterEllen] Taylor S...

I’m desperately trying to cut into my over populated desktop RSS feed reader as I really do not have the time to wade through the amount of subscriptions that I have in there. What with FeedDemon pop-ups and Tweetdeck its like having bloggers ADD (on steroids) and having too much information a...

Yesterday, National Geographic announced the launch of their new record label. We caught up with label manager Mat Whittington for  a Q & A about bridging the worlds of DJ/electronica and "world music," the evolving role of recordings in the changing marketplace and National Geog...

Amy Winehouse is off the drugs - we know this because we saw a picture of her in a bikini on a beach recently. And, as everyone knows, drug addicts are allergic to bikinis. Or something. Anyway, the important thing is that Amy Winehouse is off the drugs. And as a normally-functioning member of norma...

Edgar Bronfman Jr. is both a music company CEO and in a fight against Google (GOOG). So he needs good news wherever he can find it. Today a New York Court is helping out: It has ruled against former publishing executive Dick Snyder, who claimed that Bronfman owed him $100 million because he helped h...

We're sure that Alan McGee's latest spot of record-company slapping is in no way motivated by the failure of Poptones, oh no: "I'd recommend a band not to go to any record label, I think they're all fucking rubbish. "You're better off doing it yourself. They're living in the past, it's like owning a...

By coincidence, I just saw Kid Rock live a couple of days ago. He basically stole a bunch of big riffs from rock legends, stitching them together in a neverending breakdown-chorus combo, which sounds powerful for the first 10 minutes and boring for the next 50. No wonder he’s cool with stealin...

As JDub Records celebrates its fifth anniversary (including a free concert July 20 at Prospect Park's bandshell, Brooklyn, NY), we check the pulse of Jewish music in America with JDub founder Aaron Bisman. 1. What are the newest aspects of Jewish music to emerge in the last five years? The embrace o...