Subscribe and receive the latest news

From the monthly archives:

April 2010

Music News: Irish Music Blogs Under Attack Over Royalties

Share The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) has moved against several of the country’s MP3 blogs, demanding licences that threaten to shut down some of Ireland‘s most-respected music sites. Sites including Nialler9 and the Torture Garden have been asked to pay hundreds of pounds annually to continue sharing songs – most of which are sent [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

29 April 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

CD Packaging: GRAMMY Winners for Album Cover Design – Eighties

Share1980 Graphic artists: Mick Haggerty & Mike Doud Album: Breakfast in America Musician: Supertramp 1981 Graphic artists: Roy Kohara Album: Against the Wind Musician: Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 1982 Graphic artists: Peter Corriston Album: Tattoo You Musician: The Rolling Stones 1983 Graphic artists: John Kosh & Ron Larson Album: Get Closer Musician: [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

28 April 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

CD Packaging: GRAMMY Winners for Album Cover Design – Seventies

ShareThe Grammy Awards began presenting awards for Best Album Cover in 1959, recognizing the growing artistry of the ‘face’ of recorded music releases. From 1962 to 1965 it was separated into Classical and Non-Classical divisions. From 1966 to 1968 it was separated into Graphic Arts and Photography divisions. In 1974, the name of the award [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

28 April 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Music News: Michael Jackson Estate Wins Injunction Against Heal the World Foundation

ShareMichael Jackson’s estate has won a preliminary injunction against a group using the name of the superstar’s former charitable group. Jackson created a charity based on his hit song “Heal the World” in 1992 but it was later dissolved. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee on Monday ordered the current Heal the World Foundation to stop [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

28 April 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Music News: Soundhound Launches a Free Version of Its Mobile App

ShareSoundHound, the revolutionary sound search company, announced the launch of a new, free version of its popular mobile app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The free app includes five searches per month, and offers the same rich features and blazing fast music recognition as the premium app, SoundHound Infinity. The SoundHound App can identify [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

27 April 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Lady Gaga Vs Christina Aguilera—Why??

Share The Gaga-Aguilera comparison still doesn’t make sense to me. Akon has slated Aguilera for “trying to do the exact same thing musically” as the “Poker Face” hitmaker on her upcoming album Bionic. Christina Aguilera has brushed off accusations from AkonLady Gaga. She tells Atlanta’s Q101 radio station: “It just comes with the territory. That, [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

25 April 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Indie Musician Tips: Blog to Maintain a Loyal Fanbase

Share I mentioned 2 days ago how Jason Mraz captivated me thru his blog before his music. (update: he deactivated it after his breakup with TP.wtf). A friend of mine recommended his site two years ago and since then, I’ve been a follower of his blog…and about a month’s time of reading his stuff, I [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

24 April 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

We Want You!

ShareIf you’re a Music Packaging designer, Merch/ Band Shirt designer, Indie Music person who thinks he can share something worthwhile on our blog…then we’d like to feature you and your works! Let Me See Your Package features one person and one kick-ass packaging(CD, LP, DVD) weekly. It never hurts to get more web exposure, trust [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

24 April 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Facebook Partners With Pandora For Social Music

SharePandora and Facebook will be deeply integrated according to an announcement at the F8 Developer Conference today.  using Facebook’s new Open Graph protocol, Pandora  will stream music directly onto the social networker from bands that fans have “liked” using Facebook buttons placed on other web sites. Users can also see what kind of music their [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

24 April 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Music Industry: Why Stealing Sucks PSA Video

Share Here is a playful approach of U.S. indie label trade group A2IM in convincing people to pay the musicians for their music because stealing or ‘getting music for free’ is slowly killing the music industry.  This catchy video is part of A2IM’s Why Stealing Sucks campaign. Please spread this video around-tweet it, stumble it, [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

22 April 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3