Nokia Partners With Sony BMG For Free Music Offering: This is the day and age where just about every manufacturer of mobile telephones is teaming up with major music labels. This time, Nokia will offer free 12-month access to music from artists of Sony BMG. Nokia struck a similar deal for its “Comes With Music” phones with the Universal Music and expects all labels will come to the table.
Pitchfork Media: Ad consultants claim that the hipster site Pitchfork pulls in at least $5 million a year. Sounds fishy to me….
New Music: Listen to Blink Of An Eye by Hodges. It Definitely has top 40 flavor, except without a story.
Study: According to a new study LimeWire is the #1 peer to peer application. After LimeWire, the most popular P2P application is µTorrent, followed by BitTorrent, Ares, and Azureus.
One More Reason: OLR also known as One Less Reason gives us another reason how today’s artists can position themselves to be successful. The band who happens to be a Myspace cult band, just licensed their song
‘A Day To Be Alone‘ for the movie ‘Heroes Wanted’ and their track
‘Sadly Smiling‘ to the clothing retailer Buckle. The track will be played in 327 stores in 38 states. The band will be performing with One Republic tomorrow night at the University of Alabama.
Guns N’ Roses To Release New Album? According to the bands website Guns N’ Roses is “in negotiations” for the release of its long awaited album ‘Chinese Democracy’.
Breaking Artists: Congratulations to KTCL, the Denver Clear Channel tastemaker station who have been taking chances by adding new artists to their playlist without major label backing. KTCL is known for breaking baby acts and getting them national exposure. KTCL recently broke Meese, Flobots, and Tickle Me Pink.
Blogs will be Record Labels, and Bloggers will be the new Music Moguls: Digtital Music News wrote an interesting column that gives an imaginary glimpse into the future. Within 2 years, the leading music blogs will become what used to be called ‘Record Labels’. The people running them will be those sharp, tuned-in, hyper-networked and resourceful BlogJs formerly known as bloggers.
it boggles my mind how a band like one less reason is not gettin respect from the labels this band should be huge, great guys great songs, and they tour a ton. Its time for bands to do it them selves how can u have faith in whats going on at majors at the moment.
As One Less Reason’s manager — and yes, I still think you should disclose that info when you recommend a band — you may want to make sure that the URL on their MySpace page actually links to their site, or at least redirects back to their MySpace page, as opposed to pointing to some random parked page.
One Less Reason is sick live. Im telling you- Cris may have the best vocals out there as far as range. When i saw them live i was shocked to see him pull of every song!
One less reason is a strong band with great songs but I think they might be better off with a large Indie label because i think they can break on their own without the backing of a major. They have over 50,000 plays today so they are getting the attention of the people even if they do not get the “Major” labels attention.
In other news: Trent does it again. He released to radio stations across the US (debuted it yesterday), the new single, “Discipline.” Anybody see that one coming? Also, he’s getting in 2500 copies of Ghosts and considering signing them live via webcast. More info: http://www.nin.com