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December 2008

CD Packaging: Simpsons Movie Soundtrack

ShareThe Simpsons has always been a great franchise, and the packaging for their movie soundtrack doesn’t miss a beat. Though unfortunately one aspect of the design comes across as a bit of a tease. The Krispy Kreme Box. Notice the blank space in the middle of the donut. Opening the box, so far so good. [...]

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11 December 2008

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Rolling Stone’s Albums of the Year Released

ShareThe list featuring TV On The Radio’s “Dear Science” in top spot. Unfortunately, things only go downhill from there. One of the more uninspired choices include Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” as the third best musical album of the year. Read that last part again. Rounding out the top five are Bob Dylan’s “Telltale Signs” [...]

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11 December 2008

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The promo CD gravy train

ShareRandall Roberts of LA weekly pens a fascinating tell all, expose, or confession, whatever you want to call it, covering the promo CD racket that sits beneath the music reviewer industry. What on earth do those guys do with their piles of free CDs? The answer is probably a surprise to few who frequent used [...]

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4 December 2008

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Distributor and Label ‘Creative Vibes’ Pack It In

ShareAfter more than 15 years as an innovative Australian music company, Creative Vibes has called it quits. Their mission statement claims the company to be inspired purely by music, set out to make sure that music shops, music media and above all, music lovers got to hear and learn about the many brilliant, but non-mainstream [...]

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4 December 2008

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Event: South by Southwest 2009

ShareThe SXSW MUSIC AND MEDIA CONFERENCE showcases hundreds of musical acts from around the globe on over eighty stages in downtown Austin. By day, conference registrants do business in the SXSW Trade Show in the Austin Convention Center and partake of a full agenda of informative, provocative panel discussions featuring hundreds of speakers of international [...]

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3 December 2008

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Beer and music create pretty awesome package

ShareSince the focus of Let Me See Your Package, strangely enough, relates to creative music packaging, I loved hearing about this deal between Capitol Records Nashville’s Luke Bryan and Miller Brewing Company. The two have partnered to combine packages of Miller Lite with Bryan’s single “All My Friends Say”. In addition, the promotion will include [...]

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1 December 2008

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Jimmy Iovine explains exclusivity deal with Best Buy

ShareInterscope-Geffen-A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine talks about his label’s exclusive release with Best Buy for the Guns & Roses album “Chinese Democracy”. Here’s what he had to say: With the confusion and how much media is spread out and how hard it is to market things to a mass audience right now, I think you’ll see [...]

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1 December 2008

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