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March 2010

Music Retail News: UMG’s New Pricing Structure Designed to Get Single CDs is Stores at $10 or Below

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The Universal Music Group tests a new frontline pricing structure called the Velocity program which is designed to get single CDs in stores at $10 or below. Single CDs will have the suggested list prices of $10, $9, $8, $7 and $6.
To compensate the lower pricing, UMG also plans to step up deluxe versions [...]

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Marion Isobel

23 March 2010

Marion Isobel

Eco Packaging: How Musicians Can Pomote the Green Movement

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Today, one of the biggest problems that the world is facing is global warming. We have neglected and abused the world for so many decades and it’s about time we do something to save it before it gives up on us completely. More and more musicians are joining the Green Movement. In their own [...]

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Marion Isobel

20 March 2010

Marion Isobel

Indie Music Promotion: Make Cheap Music Videos to Promote Your Band

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This is a new music video by Icon, a client of ours. If you ask me it’s dope. Oh wait, let me change that. It’s way better than dope. I’m guessing that they did not have a large budget for this-just a good ol camera, some editing skills, and of course lots of [...]

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james

20 March 2010

James Hill

ECO DVD Manufacturing: Atlas Films on O’reilly Factor

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Our clients at Atlas Films, the wonderful talented crew who brought us Tapped the Movie, were on the O’ Reilly Factor the other day. In case you haven’t seen it, you should because it’s one of the most awesome and most convincing environmental films I’ve ever seen. I am not kidding and I am not [...]

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james

19 March 2010

James Hill

SXSW: Direct-To-Fan Sales and Marketing

ShareAll my friends who went to the South By Southwest (SXSW) Conference last March 17-21 said that it was very insightful and probably was the best SXSW ever. Sigh, I wish I wasn’t such a slacker and went there instead. To catch up on the latest, I read some of the updates from Billboard and [...]

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Marion Isobel

18 March 2010

Marion Isobel

DVD Packaging: Unified makes 100% Eco-friendly DVD packaging for Tapped the Movie

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We recently produced an eco- friendly DVD for the environmental documentary, Tapped the Movie by Atlas Films. Because of the independent film company’s advocacy, Atlas Films collaborated with Unified Manufacturing in making 100% eco-friendly DVD packaging.

We made a cardboard sleeve that is made of 100% recycled material. The CD Cardboard sleeve and disc art [...]

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james

18 March 2010

James Hill

Featured CD Packaging Designer: Jordan Butcher

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CD PACKAGING DESIGNER: Jordan Butcher
FEATURED WORK: “Lost in Sound” by Underoath

Jordan Butcher is a mid-twenties art director, designer, and photographer based in Seattle and working in house at Tooth & Nail Records. He discovered punk rock at a fairly early age which opened him up to a whole world of art, including music packaging. I [...]

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Marion Isobel

17 March 2010

Marion Isobel

Music Industry News: Spanish Judge Rules File-Sharing Not Illegal

ShareA legal twist appears to ensure that Spain will continue to offer massive headaches to anti-piracy campaigners and untold joy to the growing number of Internet users and operators who swear by what they call “free culture.”
A Barcelona judge has kicked out a complaint against a small and largely unknown Web site that was made [...]

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Chris Bauer

17 March 2010

Chris Bauer

Independent Record Label News: OK Go Splits With EMI

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OK Go, the band whose inventive internet campaigns and self-directed music videos have set records and won the band a GRAMMY(r) Award, and EMI Music’s Capitol Records, the band’s label since 2001, have agreed to part ways by mutual agreement.

EMI saw the videos as potential source of revenue and disabled the embedding feature of [...]

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Chris Bauer

14 March 2010

Chris Bauer

Music Retail: Recorded Music Couldn’t Last?

Share We all know that the Music retail business is facing a big challenge because of the sagging economy and the digital media but does that mean that the record industry is bound for extinction?
Here is what Brian Eno says in an interview with Paul Morley:

“I think records were just a little bubble through time [...]

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james

13 March 2010

James Hill

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