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Good Morning! Electric Daisy, Pandora, Facebook, Marshall, Spotify, MegaUpload, Ndour, Muve... Forget about massive incarcerations! The Electric Daisy Carnival will roll on ― with or without its fearless leader Pasquale Rotella.  In Vegas of course, where the first slate of artists has now been announced.  This is everyone from Avicii to Zany, with the Blue Man Group [...]

What Else? TuneIn+CBS, Live Nation, Ditto, Rotella, Sirius, Merlin, Houston... We keep hearing rumblings on TuneIn (tunein.com), a web-based radio portal with roughly 50,000 stations.  That includes some unconfirmed funding rumors, though for now, the company has just finalized a deal to bring 40 different CBS Radio stations into the fold.  TuneIn claims 30 million [...]

The Latest! TuneIn+CBS, Live Nation, Ditto, Rotella, Sirius, Merlin, Houston, Apple, Yahoo... We keep hearing rumblings on TuneIn (tunein.com), a web-based radio portal with roughly 50,000 stations.  That includes some unconfirmed funding rumors, though for now, the company has just finalized a deal to bring 40 different CBS Radio stations into the fold.  TuneIn claims [...]

This Is How the Single Killed the Recording Industry... The album bundles 10 or more tracks; the single is a one-off. Which means 'cherry-picking,' and far smaller per-consumer purchase bundles.  And, a very basic reason why the recording industry (and broader industry) is in such deep trouble.  Blame Napster, blame the MP3, blame the internet, [...]

Grooveshark Intensifies It Efforts to Enforce Its Subpoena Against Digital Music News… Grooveshark and its parent company, Escape Media Group, are now exerting heavy pressure on Digital Music News to enforce a subpoena related to an alleged whistleblower.  The company is now marshalling the resources of two prestigious law firms – Rosenberg Giger in New [...]

Ringtones Are Still Bigger Than Spotify, Rhapsody, Rdio Combined... It's the same reason why CDs are still selling billions, year after year. Technology simply moves faster than consumers, and older formats die hard. Which is why ringtones still accounted for $277.4 million in revenues last year - in the US alone - according to stats [...]

What Else? Front Line, Gobbler, SoundCloud, Dropbox, Jobs, PRS... Funny, these positions weren't posted on the Digital Music News Job Board.  Front Line Management Group has just recruited longtime recording industry execs Ron Fair and Richard Palmese into high-powered consulting gigs.  Both have played major roles in a string of heavy-selling successes for decades: Fair was [...]

Good Morning! Spotify, Grooveshark, Ticketmaster, LA Times, MDNA, Dotcom, G... Spotify is now planning a serious Android app update, according to a report from TheVerge. That may include support for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and a number of Android bugs and requests.  Meanwhile, the iPad remains another Spotify app sore-spot, with clunky '2X' conversions causing pain [...]

The Various Ways In Which Sony Music Screwed Weird Al Yankovic... 'Weird Al' Yankovic is a multi-decade jester, and a staple of comedic pop. Yet Yankovic has just filed a very serious lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment claiming $5 million in unpaid royalties, based on a laundry list of complaints.   Like a growing pile [...]

There's a New Big Brother Online. And He's Totally 'Non-Punitive...' No, the RIAA isn't hauling file-swappers into court this time, they won't be bankrupting BitTorrenters while attempting mass-intimidation.  That didn't work then, and it definitely won't work in a post-SOPA climate.  But make no mistake: your surfing will be monitored in the future, and you [...]