The Indie Bible, 12th Edition - 600 vendors and services that will help you to SELL your music - 3400 radio stations from around...
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An appreciation of music piracy pioneer Napster in today’s Spotify-centric world (Appolicious) Appolicious – This may be hard to believe, but once upon a time I actually downloaded music illegally. Maybe even more than once. Scandalous, I know. And I wasn’t some Johnny-come-lately pirate. No sir. I was in on the ground floor, cutting...
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Apple iTunes Alternatives: Make Managing Your Music Easy (PC World) PC World – Love music but hate iTunes? We sure do: Just read “10 Major Apple iTunes Annoyances” to find out what we think. (Our Facebook friends feel the same; see their rant-and-rave comments for more.) Yahoo! News: Digital Music
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I Am A Professional Artist – The Key To Survival And Success In The World Of The Arts For artists of all genres, this book will certainly change the thinking of any professional artist who may doubt themselves or their art, who may feel pressured by the industry, or may feel the hardship of...
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News of the World faces rush of phone hack claims (Reuters) Reuters – Rupert Murdoch’s British news arm faces a rush of fresh compensation claims and could be exposed to criminal prosecution after admitting its role in a long-running phone hacking scandal, lawyers said on Saturday. Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
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Sony to Launch Streaming Music on PSP (PC World) PC World – The rumors are true: Music Unlimited, Sony’s cloud-based streaming music service, will launch on the PSP platform April 14. Yahoo! News: Digital Music
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Google Music: Coming Soon, Kinda-Sorta-Maybe (PC World) PC World – Hot on the heels of the launch of Amazon’s Cloud Drive, new signs of Google’s music-streaming service are showing up around the Web. Yahoo! News: Digital Music
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mSpot Music vs. Amazonâs Cloud Player: The Battle of the Mobile Streaming Services (PC World) PC World – Media streaming is nothing new to Android users; we’ve been enjoying our music from the cloud for some time, thanks to the mSpot Music app. Yahoo! News: Digital Music
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China’s Baidu to Compensate Songwriters for Music Downloads (PC World) PC World – China’s largest search engine Baidu said it will start paying an agency representing songwriters for every music download on the site, after years of being criticized for providing links to pirated music downloads. Yahoo! News: Digital Music
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Rockin’ in the New World: Taking Your Band from the Basement to the Big Time Part field guide, part artistic coaching session, this rockin’ book by a seasoned insider explains the ins and outs of the music industry in plain English. Bob Tulipan-who has worked with such bands as The Talking Heads and The...
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Quarter Notes and Bank Notes: The Economics of Music Composition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) In 1700, most composers had been employees of noble courts or the church. But by the nineteenth century, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Verdi, and numerous other people functioned as freelance artists teaching,...
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Apple Kid-proofs iTunes: Requires Password for In-App Purchases (PC World) PC World – Saddled with mounting complaints from parents that their kids were running up big iTunes bills Apple changed its app purchasing policies. Now parents, or kids using their parent’s iPhone or iPad, will have to re-enter an iTunes password when making a...
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