Music Biz 2.0 Directory
Random Music Links
- Epiphany Radio
Epiphany Radio is a Shoutcast MP3 radio station streaming 128 Kbps. Playing down tempo, trip-hop, ambient groove, ambient techno and intelligent dance music.
Category: Music Radio > USA
- Hot Press
Irish national music press, with a ton of local reviews and insites and a very comprehensive music industry directory for the. Highly recomended site and print magazine.
Category: Music Media
- MOS Downloads
Download site from the worldwide renown Ministry of Sound clubbing brand. Across the board dance genre range of downloads on offer in either 192 and 320kbps download bitrates.
Category: MP3 Downloads
- Disco Mania
Discomania based in Germany and distributing trance/techno and the like across Europe.
Category: Music Distribution > Germany
- Songwriter And Music Copyright Resources
A huge collection of links and resources for songwriters, bands and anyone with an interest in copyright and music law. Based in the USA but with a worldwide collection of info, some of which are out of date but still, more info here on one site than there is on ten lesser sites.
Category: Music Law
- Streaming Media
Streaming Media news portal and resource with white papers, podcasts, blogs and newsletters reporting on the streaming media industry.
Category: Music Radio > Streaming
- The Indie Bible
Comprehensive music industry directory, published annually and into its eighth edition in 2008. Available in book, PDF and database versions and includes over 9000 contacts.
Category: Music Industry Resources > Contacts
- Leeds College Of Music
It's not just piano and Puccini if you want to study music nowadays. The growing interest in music technology and DJing has prompted the education system to adapt its music courses to include techno as well as tango.The BTEC National Certificate in Muisc Technology
is a two year course which is available at the Leeds College of Music.
Students study two different AS level subjects each year, or can continue studying their first year choices throughout the whole course. As well as computer tecnhnology, keyboard sills and events management sections of the course focus specifically on DJ techniques/technology and digital audio principles. The former enables the pupil to develop technical and artistic skills relevent to club, broadcast and production careers, and the latter provides a basic understanding of digital systems.If it's something a liitle less formal you're interested in and you just want a chance to brush up on your turntable skils, there are two options currently available at the Leeds College of Music. Summer Schools take place in July and August each year, with beginners and intermediate DJ tecnolgogy currently available. Places are available on a residential and non-reidential basic. Call 0113 222 3400 for more info.Part time corses are also available throughout the school year at the college. The DJ mixing class takes 15 people per course (15 weeks) and takes place on Tuesdays between 18:00 and 21:00 at a cost of 65. Or if it's one-to-one tuition you're after private classes can be arranged at a charge per lesson.
Category: Music Industry Resources > Jobs & Training
- Souljerz Records
Soulful house music from urban New Jersey, USA. Tony Humphries club Zanzibar Newark NJ inspired site. Many argue that house music began here during the same time as the pioneers in Chicago created their sound.
Category: Record Labels
- Mclane And Wong
Attorneys Ben McLane and Venice Wong, is a full service global entertainment law firm specializing in music law, the music business and the music industry. Working for and with domestic and international bands, artists, acts, musicians, songwriters, producers, publishers, managers, comedians, independent and major record labels and record companies, songwriter organizations, internet and new media companies.
Category: Music Law
- Rise2Red - Gremlin UK
Music recording studio in Inverness, Scotland. With former Atomic Kitten producer at the helm.
Category: Recording Studios
- Global Junkie
Authorative guides to worldwide clubbing destinations including London, Europe, Soth America and the USA.
Category: Music Industry Events > Travel
- Q Bar Bangkok
Since the first DJ mixed two records together in a Disco somewhere in New York, the DJ has been more than just an entertainer. The DJ is an educator an expert on music, spending hours, even days, searching and listening for the best grooves for their audience. The DJ is an artist carefully judging moods, selecting tracks, mixing and manipulating sound to comunicate with the party. Since the first DJ mixed two records together in a Disco somewhere in New York, the DJ has been more than just an entertainer. The DJ is an educator an expert on music, spending hours, even days, searching and listening for the best grooves for their audience. The DJ is an artist carefully judging moods, selecting tracks, mixing and manipulating sound to comunicate with the party. Q Bar opened in Bangkok December 1999, redefining the standard for Bangkok's nightlife. Although there have been many imitators we continue to lead the pack by focusing on innovative entertainment.
Category: Club Music
- DJ Shop
Across the board and comprehensive German dance music store stocking all genres of dance on vinyl and CD and a selection of DJ hardware and accessories. Online samples of stock.
Category: Music Retailers & Stores > Germany
- Club Planet Forums
Certainly must be one of the busiest dance music forums on the planet, mainly US based but expanding to major cities worldwide.
Category: Club Music > Clubbing Forums
- Custom Records
Minneapolis based custom made vinyl one offs and dub plates in 7/10 and 12 inch sizes. Custom made one off 12 inch one sided clear vinyl and picture disc pressings offered.
Category: Vinyl & CD Manufacturing > USA
- Put The Needle On A Record
Put the Needle on the Record -- A DJ Documentary: The world of global DJ culture is explored in this fascinating journey inside the scene.
Category: Film, TV & Video
- MMF Guide To Professional Music Management
Written and endorsed by the Music Managers Forum (MMF), this official guide offers in-depth advice on everything from negotiating record company contracts, to maximising your merchandising, to understanding publishing deals, to handling PR.
This 2nd edition features brand new chapters on IT, music insurance and band contracts as well as a fully updated international directory of managers, music societies and record labels.
Category: Music Media
- Just Say Agency
DJ and artist management company run by Chicago house music legend and producer Jesse Saunders. Roster includes Steve Silk Hurley and Juan Atkins.
Category: DJ Resources > DJ & Artist Management
- German Trance
Online store based in Tetbury, Gloucestershire specializing in all sub genres of trance and techno, hardstyle and hardcore vinyl and Cds. Worldwide shipping.
Category: Music Retailers & Stores > UK
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Bonzai Records
Homepage of long running European trance/techno record label Bonzai.
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Omara Guest List
Londons based guest list and night club promotion company. Members get access to various club guest lists around London's club scene.
| Category: | Club Music > Club Promoters |
Audio Visualizers
Busy resource for people interested in video mixing, VJing, video perfomance and production.
| Category: | Video & Multimedia |
Virtual DJ
Virtual DJ mixing software and hardware including Numark virtual vinyl, usb soundcards rack and desktop controllers, DJ mixers and all in one controllers.
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DJ Resources > MP3 Djing DJ Resources > DJ Mash-Ups |
Association of Independents in Radio
Not for profit American independent radio organisation promoting radio producers and to increase general awareness of the significant contribution radio and audio independents make to the cultural life of our 21st-century world.
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Thump Records
Pomona, California based dance label with various label offshoots like the trance compilations on Element and various genres including house, disco Latin and old school rap.
| Category: | Record Labels |
Music For The Media
Music for the Media is the world's largest training programme for film and television composers. With 2500 students in twenty five countries and study centers in London and Los Angeles.
| Category: | Music Industry Resources > Education & Learning |
School Of Sound Recording
The School of Sound Recording (SSR) has been training music and audio industry professionals since 1984. Situated in the heart of Manchester, it has deep roots in the citys famous music scene and strong connections with the industry across the world. A wide range of specialist courses, all related to the audio, media and music industries. These include audio engineering techniques & technology, dance music production, DJ technique and digital video editing.
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TalentBox.com
Comprehensive directory for the entertainment industry including resources for actors, musicians, dancers, photographers and models.
| Category: | Music Industry Resources > Contacts |
The Indie Bible
Comprehensive music industry directory, published annually and into its eighth edition in 2008. Available in book, PDF and database versions and includes over 9000 contacts.
| Category: | Music Industry Resources > Contacts |
Lefsetz Letter
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Man Who Couldn’t Cry
My favorite Neil Young album is the very first, the eponymous one, the one that was re-released with a new mix not long after it hit the marketplace (you can tell the difference by the front cover, if the picture takes up the whole cover, it's the old, wrong one, if there's the name "Neil [...]
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Commercialization/Authenticity
If I hear one more time that commercials are the new radio, that no one cares about endorsements and sponsorships, I'm going to take my vinyl records and move to Tierra del Fuego.Ain't that a laugh. Vinyl records. Even though I'm a big believer in vinyl, that it sounds better than CDs, it's not even [...]
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LeRoi
I saw the Dave Matthews Band open for Phish at the Santa Monica Civic.I do what Chip tells me. He'd told me I had to come see Phish at the Variety Arts Center and I'd watched them blow up. The DMB was his new band.I didn't know that the Santa Monica Civic had a false [...]
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Luke Strikes Back
Interesting rave here. File sharing. Hey, you cant put Pandora back in the box. I guess thats why some of the big acts charge 100-to 250 bucks a ticket. If you cant sell records like the old days might as well fuck everyone for the expensive ticket price right? Ok, its NOT all that way [...]
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Black Ice
I'm sitting here at Shutters listening to the new AC/DC album on Steve Barnett's MacBook Air.To tell you the truth, I usually avoid this. What are you going to say as the label head watches you listen to his baby. But after discussing the Wal-Mart deal at lunch, hearing all about the plans for release, [...]
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Yahoo P2P News
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RIAA wins P2P case after defendant reformats hard drive (Ars Technica)
A few months after rejecting the RIAA's argument that making a file available over a P2P network is copyright infringement, a judge is handing the labels a victory after the defendant reformatted his hard drive, nuked his KaZaA installation, and downloaded and used a file-shredding program. Read More...
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ISU blocks illegal peer-to-peer file sharing (Daily Vidette)
Despite the repercussions of downloading media via illegal peer-to-peer applications, over 90 percent of ISU students who lived on-campus during the 2007- 2008 school year used P2P software. The high volume of file sharing in the residence halls has led to a recent restriction of p2p applications on all of ISU's on-campus networks.
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Google Cuts Features Out of 'Android' OS (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
Google said Monday that it will cut two key features out of its upcoming "Android" mobile-phone OS: a formal Bluetooth implementation, and Google Talk, the developer's version of instant messaging.
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Is BT controlling your internet? (BBC News)
An internet user from Shropshire finds something suspicious about his internet connection.
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PeerApp Demonstrates at the CableLabs Summer Conference How Its Caching Technology Alleviates Upstream P2P Traffic (Broadcast Newsroom)
NEWTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/22/08 -- PeerApp Ltd. , the leader in intelligent media caching and content acceleration solutions for the Video Internet, recently demonstrated at the CableLabs© annual Summer Conference its upstream caching technology and how it can be deployed as a network optimization tool to reduce the P2P traffic impact on the "last mile" network without affecting user ...
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Boycott RIAA
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In The News - August 2008
Here is the place to put all those links to things found on the interweb that are of interest to the independent music community.
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Looking in Pandora's Box
Tim Westergren, founder of the webcasting service Pandora, recently said, "We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision. This is like a last stand for webcasting." I wasn't able to discuss it at the time but it's too important to let pass unmentioned.
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Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record
I don't like Biden's record on our type of issues, however (with a look at the glass being half full) if he becomes the VP, at least he will only get to vote on tech issues when the Senate is at a tie. (And Obama hopefully will still have the power to veto anything too pro RIAA/MPAA/etcAA.) Biden as VP puts him in a place where he can do less harm.
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FREE MP3 ALBUM DOWNLOAD
Free mp3 download of my album THE BULLFROG SESSION
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Composer Says Beijing Olympic Committee Ripped Him Off
"My arrangements of public-domain anthems are actually original compositions from a legal point of view," said the Czechoslovakian native to the Post from New York, "which means if someone wants to record them, they have to purchase the material." - It would appear that the Beijing Olympic Committee has infringed his copyright on a massive scale, since national anthems are played at each medal ceremony. An estimated 3 billion people worldwide are tuning in to the games via television.
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Micheals Minute
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Cloud Video Is Legal, How About Cloud Music?
In a stunning but welcomed reversal, a New York appeals court has overturned a Judge's ruling outlawing remote video recording and playback. It's a huge victory for consumers because they'll get a cheaper DVR type of service, but it also sets a sturdy leg
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Preparing for a life after Pandora with PiMP
At MP3tunes we decided to build a Pandora-like system that won't get crushed by labels and also didn't have the nagging limitations of web radio like no rewind button, limited song skipping, no song look ahead, etc. We call this service PiMP.
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It's Getting Cloudy in the Technology Business
A seismic shift is underway in the technology sector as companies big and small embrace the "cloud". The cloud is another name for the Internet, but instead of a simply thinking of it as a set of dumb cables connecting computers together....
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Xandros Buys Linspire
This week Xandros Inc. is buying Linspire. Xandros has done more than any company to put Linux in front of users by powering the innovative eee PC so I'm excited to see the Linspire, Freespire and CNR technology go to a worthy competitor. Linux is going t
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The Record Labels Want My Minivan
This week in a New York court attorney's for EMI made the argument about why I should be personally liable as CEO of MP3tunes. They are suing not only MP3tunes, but also me personally and are going after my home, cars and kids college funds in their suit.
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College Music Journal
- Wintersleep To Tour, Despite Gear Theft
- Bloc Party To Release 'Intimate' New Album On Thursday
- The Sword Cut It Up With Metallica
- Ingrid Michaelson 'Be Ok'
- CMJ Chart Recap: Beck Still 'Guilty' At No. 1
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott Announces New Record
- Disc Makers To Give Major Labels Even More Headaches
- Street Dogs To Hit The Road
- Saviours Hit The Road With Iced Earth
- CMJ Music Marathon Badge Discount Ends Today
Hear 2.0
- Making better Billboards
- Here comes "Social Radio"
- Radio goes live - with video - from the Democratic Convention
- Engagement, not Impressions
- Nobody cares what we own
- "Enough about me, now more about me"
- "Radio Heard Here": Actions speak louder than Words?
- Radio: Move, Adapt, or Die
- What is "Accountability"?
- Doom and Gloom? Or Opportunity?
Techcrunch
- The WB Rises From The Ashes As A Competitor To Hulu
- Movie Labels To Launch New “Open Market” Play Anywhere Scheme As Last Ditch Effort To Save DRM
- No Joke: The Onion Launches CitySearch Competitor
- Muxtape Reborn, Unofficially, as OpenTape
- If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity.
- TechCrunch50 Isn’t About The Parties.
- Tapulous Cofounder Mike Lee Ejected From Company
- Google Will Now Manage Your Website’s Ads
- Study: Blogs Love Obama, News Sites Love McCain. But McCain Is Catching Up By Going Negative.
- You, Lucky TechCrunch Readers, Don’t Have To Pay To Attend Mobilize
Coolfer
- New Brian Wilson Album Shows Creativity at EMI
- Tuesday Business Links
- Coolfer Is Five
- Live Nation's Promise Won't Make Headlines
- Monday Business Links: BMI Has Record Year
- Amazon.com's $2-5 Sweet Spot
- Retail Transformations Having Mixed Success
- Friday Business Links: Ticketmaster Goes Solo, Shares Up
- Thursday Business Links: Trans World Posts $19.2 Million Loss, Apple Rumors are Still Just Rumors
- More on Voluntary Music Fees/The Griffin Plan
Mashable
- Blogger Michelle Malkin Attacked in Denver near DNC08
- 40+ Eye-Opening OpenID Sites and Services
- BBC to Use ‘Series Stacking’ to Increase Online Viewership
- Caught in the Echo Chamber - Insights into the Marketability of Tech Companies
- Mozilla Announces Ubiquity for Universal Access
- Social Networking AIR App SocialU Wants to Be Your Everything (Invites)
- Eight Tools for Capturing Screenshots in Firefox 3
- SportsPassion Brings Team Players Together Online
- Upload, Share and Approve Creative Documents with ProofHQ
- Bookmarking Gets Distributed; Create Your Own Reddit on Your Own Domain
iLounge
- Review: BlueAnt V1 Voice Control Bluetooth Headset
- Review: iHome iH41 Flip &Watch for iPod and iPod touch
- News: EA’s Spore Origins pulled from iTunes Store
- Article: iPhone Gems: Twitch Action Games, Crazy, Cool, or Kusoge
- News: Mix: ChinaTunes, Trade iPhone for 3G, TeTris, Blue Book, Flixster Movie
- News: AT&T adds new international data plans for iPhone
- First Looks: Electronic Arts Spore Origins
- News: Lockup bug hits EA iPod game Spore Origins
- News: Intuit launches QuickBooks Online for iPhone, iPod touch
- News: EA releases Spore Origins for Click Wheel iPods
New Music Tipsheet
- THE VERVE Play Live on BBC, Watch Here
- Watch RADIOHEAD Live at Hollywood Bowl
- DR DRE's Son Dead
- New FALL OUT BOY Coming in November
- Merge Celebrates 20th Anniversay with Label Box Set
- Watch New G LOVE Video on Jambase
- Scrabulous Worldwide, R.I.P.
- Geek Humor: Yahoo 404 Error at Giants Stadium
- Google Cutting Back on Free Food?
- Disc Makers Offers Elite Service for Label Refugees
Delicious Music
Boing Boing
- Make announces American Maker competition
- Stanford Prison Experiment researcher's new study about everyday heroism
- Burning Man art build video
- Raisin Brahms (excellent pro-Art-ed video PSA)
- Tibet: "Beijing 10" return to USA; new Tibet docu "Leaving Fear Behind."
- Cool book: Havana before Castro
- Bush-McCain "Tijuana Bibles" at DNC
- Five years with the master of Pac-Man, by Joshua Bearman
- Medals and rights: TNR debunks the myth of order in pre-Olympic China
- Test-pattern cosy for flat-panel TV -- Boing Boing Gadgets
Mixx Music
- Country Swing Makes a Comeback on New Song from Joss and Colosio
- Gunnar Graps - Selles meeletus ilmas
- Dr. Dre's 20-year-old son found dead in LA
- Karzzzz | 2008 | Bollywood Hindi Mp3 Songs Download Free
- Leona Lewis, Jimmy Page Jam At Olympics Finale
- YouTube - "If You're Out There" - John Legend
- What The Frock: Chris Martin Likes To Sew - FameCrawler
- Toni Braxton
- YouTube - Blade (Aly Payami Original Radio Edit) Aly Payami Vs Warp Br
- Most Famous Ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet
Create Digital Music
- Preview: OpenStomp, Open Source Effects Stompbox, US$349
- Reaper, Elegant Mac/Windows DAW, Adds Gobs More Features
- OSCulator, Magic Bullet for Mac Alternative Controllers, Updated
- How to Turn Theremin into MIDI, Free with Pd
- iPhone/Touch Roundup: BtBx Acid Bass, iDrum Workflow and Babies, OpenSoundControl App
- Most Samples Ever: German Art Makes Song with 70,200 Samples, Using Pd
- Sound Design Recipes, in Blog Form
- The Ultimate Mac Music Rack? Rax 3, in Previews
- Arduinome: An Arduino-Based Monome Clone, Behind the Scenes
- Easier DIY Controllers: MachineCollective in Beta, Shipping Next Month
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- Hard Wax
- PIAS UK
- Vinyl Distribution
- Homerun.de
- MusicBizHacks.com
- The CM Guide To Remixing
- Trance Source
- Tribal Manufacturing
- Harmony Central
- Key Production
- Virtual Ibiza
- Winter Music Conference
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- Record Label Addresses
- Music Is Everything
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