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Pirate Bay prosecution band release new album on… The Pirate Bay
We never asked to be plaintiffs in this case, they used us as a weapon in a fight in which we don’t wish to participate. We refuse to be used in a war against our fans!

Nine Inch Nails iPhone App Extends Reznor's Innovative Run
Wait — you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it? Who the fuck made that rule?

Keep your mixes consistent by using a reference
Find a song with the tonal balance you're looking for, insert it onto its own track in your project, set its fader to match the volume of the song (IMPORTANT!), and then mute it.

Musebin
1 line music news and reviews

Five easy steps to plug online music leaks
This is current industry wisdom about what to do when your music finds its way onto the internet before you want it to. Really.

Lawyer For Guns N' Roses: Be Careful What You Promise
Guns N' Roses has done the unthinkable and finally released "Chinese Democracy," fifteen years and many jokes in the making. Now a lawyer for the band wants to take the fizzle out of Dr. Pepper, demanding the soda maker make good on its cynical advertising campaign to give away a free soda to any American if the long-awaited album came out before the end of 2008. (The band wasn't involved in the promotion.)

Boosting Music Sales, One Blog At A Time
For musicians just a decade ago, there was basically only one way to make it big — you had to get on the radio. The Internet has changed that. Musicians can build an audience by sending out their music over various networks. But in a crowded online world, just putting it out there isn't enough. City and Colour has been promoting itself one blog and one MP3 file at a time.

Ads, licensing are where musicians make money
"People have changed their attitudes towards being on TV or using music for commercials," says Cindy Howes, a disc jockey at WYEP-FM in Pittsburgh. "It's not selling out anymore; it's more that they are trying to pay the rent."

Advice for starting musicians
you need a plan. take the time to think it through. write it down. decide how you are going to measure the success (when you quit the job at the coffee shop and your music is paying all the bills, that's a great measurement.)

Get Into the Rhythm: 50 Open Courseware Collections for Musicians
Finding a place to take free classes can be a bonus for musicians struggling to pay the rent. The following open courseware collections include classes, entire courses, and lessons that are sure to please the musician in you. Select from college courses from some of the top-ranked universities, educational open courseware collections, music schools, and even podcasts and webcasts.

Once Again, the Long Tail Refuses to Be Buried
Wired editor Chris Anderson’s theories about the Long Tail have been the source of considerable controversy almost since the day his first Wired magazine piece on the topic was published in 2004. The initial criticisms of his thesis centered on whether there was such a thing as a “long tail” at all — in other words, whether digital distribution of music and other forms of content have allowed little-known songs, movies, and so on to prosper where they might otherwise have been ignored. Later attacks, however, have focused on how the Long Tail theory functions in certain markets, and whether or not the existence of such an effect actually helps anyone in those markets create a workable business model.

Band Incorporates As A Company And Raises Money, Rather Than Signing With A Label
Rather than going out and signing a record label deal, where the record label basically gets near total control over the band and its works, the band has incorporated itself into a company and raised $100,000 from The Normative Music Company as an investment.

Feargal Sharkey to head up new music-biz body
What’s striking about UK Music is the breadth and depth of its remit. The group plans to work closely with a plethora of UK government departments to ensure the group has inputs into such areas as enterprise, innovation, skills and education.

Labels and Risk Avoidance
Music companies have allowed themselves to become distracted. They've become far more concerned with how to sell rather than what they're selling.

Techdirt: Judge Slams RIAA Tactics
"...counsel representing the record companies have an ethical obligation to fully understand that they are fighting people without lawyers... to understand that the formalities of this are basically bankrupting people, and it's terribly critical that you stop it...."

Dell Planning New MP3 Player, Subscription Service
One specific thing made me wince when I read that Dell is working on a new MP3 player (a second stab at the market). I'm fine with a new Dell player. There is certainly room for more MP3 players, although I think the odds that Dell is going to either grow

£30 annual ‘tax’ for unlimited music downloads in biggest attack yet on internet pirates | Vladd’s view of the World
Moves to revolutionise music downloading were unveiled today, including a plan for an annual fee for the right to copy unlimited tracks from the internet.

Universal, Sky to Offer Music Subscription Plan
Universal Music Group (UK and Ireland) and British Sky Broadcasting, the satellite television operator that also offers broadband Internet access, will launch by the end of the year an unnamed venture that will offer music subscriptions to Sky customers

Radiohead "House of Cards" and Creative Commons
Exciting for Creative Commons is that the data (although not the music) used to produce this music video are being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License on the Google Code site

New music markets to trounce CD sales
AS CD SALES PLUNGE, the mobile device music market soars according to a new report by research outfit Emarketer which claims that music on mobile devices will be a $7.3 billion industry by 2011

Weezer write song online with fans
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has written a new song, 'Turnin' Up The Radio'', with the help of fans

Warner Bros. LP+CD Bundle a Clever Twist
he new album by the reunited early '70s band that features Tom Petty, Warner Bros. has released two versions. The CD package will contain an album remastered for the "realities of the marketplace," which means it has the sort of loud, compressed sound tha

The Shins set to self-release next album
After three albums released through Sub Pop, The Shins are going out on their own to put out their fourth LP.

Illegal downloads: the solution
Young people are prepared to pay for the music they love - but only if offered the services they want. Here's how the industry can change

EMI Grabs Priceless BBC Archives; Two-Way Deal
The RIAA has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit, a development that intensifies questions related to its methods for identifying and prosecuting individual file-sharer

RIAA Quietly Drops a Suit; "Making Available" Questions Linger
The RIAA has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit, a development that intensifies questions related to its methods for identifying and prosecuting individual file-sharer

Canada to get tough on digital piracy
Legislation introduced in Canadian Parliament on Thursday would fine consumers about $500 in Canadian dollars for owning bootleg copies of digital music and up to $20,000 for posting copyrighted music to the Internet or giving away an iPod with music on i

New AC/DC Album To Be Wal-Mart Exclusive
AC/DC's next studio album will be exclusively sold at Wal-Mart stores in the United State

Spiralfrog.com to offer downloads from EMI artists
SpiralFrog Inc., which operates an ad-supported, free music and video download Web site, said Monday it will soon begin offering content from Coldplay, Keith Urban and other recording artists as part of a new licensing deal with EMI Music.

Some kind of online subscription model
Metallica have embraced the internet - and to celebrate they're selling $125 lithographs

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