Blog: The Daily Rind

Barsuk Records is thrilled to announce that Maps & Atlases will release their sophomore full-length Beware and Be Grateful on April 17th. The album - which follows the Chicago-based band's acclaimed 2010 debut, Perch Patchwork - was recorded last year in a series of intense week-long sessions at Omaha's ARC Studios with ...

Warner Music Losses Grow 44%, Revenue Flat Despite Digital Gains Shazam-enabled Grammys connect fans with the music [with video] Backbeat: Esperanza Spalding, Anthony Hamilton Perform @ Grammy in the Schools Live! The Music Business in Five: CMU

Introducing Anna Ibarzabal, Client Manager for Spain and Portugal. Hi everyone, I'm Anna Ibarzabal and some of you might already know me. I began at the company in September 2011 and was introduced as a Client Manager Assistant by Albert. Now on January 2012, I have been promoted to Client ...

RIAA chief hits back at Wikipedia and Google over SOPA protests Good Morning! Converse, Gorillaz, Dotcom, McCartney, iLike, Kobalt, Ticketfly... Rock Hall adds 6 groups to list of inductees Facebook Hits A New Record High Value Of At Least $103.4 Billion Adele's '212 is #1 for 19th time

Gifted new artist Devin's debut full-length album, Romancing, is scheduled for release on April 10th on Frenchkiss Records. Devin first broke out with his three-song EP for Frenchkiss, You're Mine, which received critical acclaim from Rolling Stone while earning him comparisons to David Johansen and Jack White. Named one of NME's "20 ...

Most marketing, promotion and advertising involves interruption. If an artist has a new release they want to tell people. But in order to do so they need to interrupt whatever people are doing so they can squeeze in their announcement. In our new attention economy communicating a message has a ...

Let's face it, if you're in the music business, you've definitely had to share large files at one point or another: .zip files, hi-res artwork, videos... And so you're probably familiar with some of the big file-sharing sites like YouSendIt or sendspace. Well, I'm here to introduce you to my ...

Radio: From Tesla To Turntable.fm [INFOGRAPHIC] Facebook's Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal? Business Matters: Vevo Should Pay Up, Say Songs Music, Downtown, TuneCore UK Music launches diversity charter Unbundling the Album: A Business Case for Releasing Single Songs

January saw the world's music industry yet again decamp en masse to Cannes for several days of meetings, gigs, showcases and the odd dinner and drink thrown in or as it's normally called: midem. The Orchard has several reasons to celebrate this year but none more important than our 15-year ...

Imagine having somebody hunt down every music video from your favorite artists, organize them, and put them all on your phone for you. VEVO's updated iPhone app with VEVO Match can do just that. Automatically. For Free. By providing an automated, cloud based video collection for your iPhone, VEVO has ...

Meet Charitable Checkout, the 100% free app that lets you raise money for the causes you believe in while promoting your music and developing closer relationships with your fans. The concept is simple: when fans give to celebrity-endorsed causes, they get brand-sponsored discounts and a public thanks from said celebrity ...

Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce Verizon, Redbox plan Netflix challenge ReDigi Successfully Fends Off EMI's Preliminary Injunction To Shutter Site Rdio shows Android love with totally new app Good Morning! Super Bowl, M.I.A., Voice, X Factor, Rdio, Bandsintown, Grammys...

In a recent Freeloader Friday, we presented "ICBYS" by sister duo Zambri and now their music video for the track has debuted on SPIN.com! "ICBYS" marks the first single off of Zambri's debut full-length album House of Baasa out April 10th on Kanine Records, which sisters Cristi Jo and Jessica self-produced ...

Bonnaroo's First Decade Nets $5 Million To Charities 2012 Grammys Embrace Digital, Mobile and Social Media Good Morning! M.I.A., Sister Sledge, Sony Music, Madonna, Tiesto, Spotify, Facebook... Warner pulled into digital royalties dispute via Sister Sledge lawsuit Tone Deaf Madonna Film survives amid digital world

Happy Monday! Do you lack pep, zip, or brio? Has your get-up-and-go gotten up and went? Do you suffer from "swamp brain?" We introduce The Kabeedies, from England. Their video for "Eyes" contemplates the human life cycle in three fast-moving minutes. Recommended if you like cute babies, cute indie-pop (reminds us of The Futureheads), and cute ...

If you've been waiting wide awake for this, you will already know that The Big Sleep just released their new full-length LP "Nature Experiments" on Frenchkiss Records. If you're just finding this out now, you can check out the album on AOL Spinner, where it's currently streaming full-length. In addition, the first music video ...

iTunes Match Is Ruining The Lives Of Customers And Rappers By Censoring Explicit Tracks Doubling Ticket Sales and Breaking Industry Records, Ticketfly Starts 2012 With a Bang! SXSW Accelerator Names Music Tech Finalists Shazam Goes All Superbowl On Us… Is Audio the New QR Code?

With another February comes yet another Groundhog Day where the groundhog does in fact see his shadow and we are doomed yet again to six more weeks of winter. Since you're inevitably going to be staying inside, why not get cozy and settle into the weekend with some free tunes? ...

Sundance Film Festival 2012, which officially ended 4 days ago, was rife with the expected daily deal announcements rumored to be in the seven figures. The usual suspects, backed by either major Hollywood studios or corporations - Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics, IFC Films, etc. - signed contracts and offered ...

Swedish masters of the extreme Meshuggah will be taking their sonic arsenal on the road and detonating sound systems in cities across the U.S. and Canada on "The Ophidian Trek" tour, which launches on April 29th in Houston. Support for all 19 shows will come from Baroness; opening each night will ...