Who is gonna buy EMI?

Apple? Sony? Universal? Warner? Papa John’s Pizza??? Alright, not actually Papa John’s, but it’s honestly getting annoying/ridiculous to hear about the back and forth chatter between EMI and the various contenders. I don’t want to hear anything else until someone signs the dotted line.
Apple wants EMI mainly to have The Beatles on iTunes. Sony and [...]

Grammy’s SoundTables: A convo on Digital Distribution

This THURSDAY….I repeat….this THURSDAY, the New York Chapter of the Recording Academy will dive into the world of digital distribution with the most recent installment of the SoundTables event series entitled “Opportunities Available Online: Does Your Music Feel Free.” The Grammy’s host incredible events that are extremely informative and relevant on top of amazing networking [...]

Reflections on Mashable’s “5 Predictions for the Music Industry in 2010″

Soundctrl board member Toby Daniels recently linked me to this Mashable article written by Nick Crocker, the founder of We Are Hunted (I’m a huge fan):

The majors can’t be lazy and threaten the consumer to maintain the way things used to be nor can they rely too heavily on their back catalog for publishing, so [...]