independent music News Archive

04-Aug-2008

 

  • U.S. firm offers 3-cent songs in country where piracy reigns (The Clarion-Ledger)
    A U.S. distributor of independent music is offering songs for about 3 cents apiece online in China, where people have easy access to free, pirated music.


  • Dane wins best live band award (Mississauga News)
    Earlier this week, Mississauga's Marshall Dane won Best Live Electric Band at the 2008 Toronto independent music Awards. It's the second consecutive year the band was nominated. "The fans voted and their voices were heard .. we won!" Dane said.


  • IODA and R2G Partner to Launch Wawawa Music Store, Bringing Independent Music to China's 253 Million Internet Users (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
    IODA, the global leader in digital distribution, marketing, and technology solutions for the independent music and film industry, and R2G, the leading digital music distribution company in China, today announced an agreement to provide China's growing Internet audience with access to a diverse selection of more than one million recordings of international music. IODA's catalog will be available ...


  • US firm offers 3-cent songs to raise bar in China (San Francisco Chronicle)
    A U.S. distributor of independent music is offering songs for about 3 cents apiece online in China, where people have easy access to free, pirated music. The Wawawa Music Store site opened for business Friday offering a subscription service that allows 88 MP3...


  • Exotic Erotic Ball Partners With Sonicbids to Offer 3 Prime Gigs to Indie Bands (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
    The 29th annual Exotic Erotic Ball and Expo, the internationally acclaimed Celebration of Flesh, Fetish, and Fantasy, and -- according to E! Entertainment TV -- "The World's #1 Wildest and Sexiest Party," has renewed its longstanding commitment to promoting independent music by offering three prime-time, full-paying gigs exclusively to Independent bands through an alliance with Sonicbids. The ...


  • US firm offers 3-cent downloads to China (KABC-TV Los Angeles)
    A United States firm offers 3-cent songs to raise bar in China


  • On the Bus, and Off It: The Initiation of a Young Rock Impresario (New York Times)
    For Sean Carlson, taking his independent music festival on tour was a chance to have fun, to make his name and, he hoped, to leapfrog to the next level of the music world.


  • The search for Osama (no, not that one) (Toronto Star)
    The search for Osama has come to Toronto. It isn't a stakeout for a single person. In fact the goal is to track down 500 Osamas in the span of 50 days.


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