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Travis Barker Makes News with Frequency

This guy is a well known rock drummer, admired by many. I admire his choice in publicist. This pic first caught my eye, then I see he’s allegedly dating Rihanna. I see Travis Barker in the news every week. Granted, he’s not making world news headlines, he is a headliner in entertainment, music and drum [...]

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DW Bringing Jobs Back to California

DW recently announced that it plans to move all drum production to its facility in Oxnard, CA. This will bring a close to production that’s been done in its Ensenada, Mexico facility. The transition will begin in March. According to DW’s Director of Operations, the decision is, “the result of an ongoing campaign to improve [...]

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Music Services Cannot Afford to Pay Apple 30 Percent

Despite the fact that Swedish streaming service Spotify is raising a strong round of funding, Apple’s App Store subscription fee is said to threaten derailment of the companies business model. Without even trying, I’ve seen multiple subscription services complain openly about the 30 percent fee. What this likely means is that most subscription services wouldn’t [...]

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LA’s Fingerprints Records Still Thriving

What? A cool record store is still in business? Apparently Fingerprints Records has been build on a model that works and is perhaps similar to the model of those other little known about record stores still in existence. The beauty of this, is that it supports the independent and local artists. Arguably the coolest thing [...]

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ZMX Music Has New Biz Model for Music in Print

I’d been wondering what the state of the sheet music space is. As best I could tell, it’s maintained a hold on to its profit stream and old school model, despite the digital music scene. That’s apparently been the case until somewhat recently. A game changer is ZMX Music, which has cut the inefficiencies out [...]

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RATT Drummer Launching Informational Book Series

While it’s not a first, it may be a first by a rock drummer. Former RATT drummer Bobby Blotzer, is according to BlabberMouth.net, launching a new informational book series that will include interaction from readers. I wonder if the any subject on anything model is an approach that will work for Blotzer, but otherwise love [...]

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Rhapsody CEO Critical of New Apple App Store Terms

I’ve long been a fan of Rhapsody’s subscription model, favoring it over the iTunes model. Not only is it more affordable, it has always offered a variety of plans for streaming and downloading. Apple is in the process of being very Apple in making arrangements for an unfriendly competitive environment (Rhapsody CEO Blasts Apple: New [...]

Radiohead sets Web release date for new album

Radiohead broke ground in the industry with its release of “In Rainbows,” and its online pay-what-you-want model. Their forthcoming album will, not surprisingly, sell by a more traditional model–the price is this. Even so, the band is still doing some unique things. In addition to a traditional download, there will be special pricing for WAV [...]

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Google Music Coming with Android

Speaking of streaming music, Google is said to be rolling out its own music service with the forthcoming Android upgrade. DMW Daily The model that I’ve been a big fan of (downloading music) will apparently go away soon; but I’m OK with this. I’ve been hanging on to a real piece of crap Blackberry, and have [...]

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Is Streaming Music the Future

Britain’s Universal Music seems to think so, or so says Wired.co.uk. I’ve given it some thought. About 5 seconds into that thought, I remembered that the sound coming from my computer was Pandora. Throughout my work week, which is largely spent working my life away on a MacBook, I’m either piping tunes via Pandora, Rhapsody, [...]

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Wilco Departs From Record Label

Last month, Wilco announced that they were parting ways with their record company, deciding to release under their own label. Check out Sarah Szczerbiak post on Culturemob.com. The story just caught my eye, as Wilco is a major influence in my band Redwood, largely because founding member Kit Bragg is a huge fan. I was a [...]

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Butler Recalls Moment He Knew AF was Special

In a Rolling Stone story by David Fricke, Win Butler describes the moment he knew that his band Arcade Fire was special and destined for greatness. In 2003…Butler was driving up to La Sala Rossa, a hip Montreal venue where Arcade Fire had a gig. “There was a line around the block,” Butler, 30, recalls. [...]

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