Blog: The Daily Rind

Here in the Product department, we're always busy building cool stuff to make life (and business) easier for our clients. This time, we're very pleased to announce the launch of a brand new Accounting section. Please, everyone, calm down. Excuse me, sir, can you put your shirt back on? This ...

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Happy Friday everyone! I don't know about you, but this one seems particular welcome. It's the first Friday of Spring, the sun is shining (at least in New York!), SXSW fever is over and it's time to relax. To help, we've got free tunes for you as usual, starting with ...

If you watch MTV’s Washington Heights, you may have heard Royce Da 5’9 in Episode 9 of the new reality teen-drama series now rounding out its first season. Set in the series’ namesake Upper Upper West side slice of Manhattan, the show follows nine youth who each have their own ...

Business Matters: Track Sales Down 2% in 2013, Not the First Deficit of the Digital Age Just announced! List of Record Store Day 2013 Releases BlackBerry and Zimbalam partner to put unsigned artists on BlackBerry World Store Music Pre-Sales Turn iTunes into Kickstarter (Sort of) Miss the DRM Battle? Don't ...

According to the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) Digital Music Report 2013, the music industry's global revenues increased by 0.3 percent in 2012. Though this may seem negligible, this was the first time that the industry's global revenues increased since over a decade ago in 1999. A major contributor ...

Fallon, Leno and Late Night: What The Shakeup Could Mean to the Music Biz SFX Purchases 75% Stake in ID&T, Announce U.S. Edition of Tomorrowland Ears-On With Spotify Social, The New "Follow" Feature Now Available To Everyone YouTube Hits 1 billion Users YouTube VP thinks subscription models are 'incredibly important' for ...

Later this year, YouTube is set to release a new music streaming service to rival the likes of Spotify and Pandora. YouTube already behaves much like its two future competitors, with the exception of monthly subscription fees. The new service will introduce this strategy as a way to tap into ...

The energy of a club-bouncing Electro rave is hard to recreate on an album, but UK-based band Hadouken! does just that on their new release, Every Weekend, out this week via Surface Noise Records. Frontman James Smith said the group wanted to craft a record that acted as a unifying, hedonistic force, and ...

Amazon in talks with record labels about subscription music service UK music revenues will be more than 50% digital this year - BPI's Wadsworth EC report explores piracy and streaming's impact on digital music sales Spotify Premium goes half-price for Movistar mobile subscribers in Spain Chirpify Adds Facebook To In-Stream Music ...

Introducing Deborah Rudolph, Interactive Marketing Manager, Film/TV I was born in Manhattan, and even though I often explore other lands, I am happily still in New York. For many years Brooklyn has been my home, and I am enjoying my new neighborhood of Ft. Greene. I studied Film and Photography ...

Record Store Day 2013 is quickly approaching. Originally started in 2007, RSD has not only become one of the most important days in the year for physical retail, but it also gives us a chance to reflect upon and celebrate the joy of the indie record store. Growing up in Suburbia, ...

End of an Era for eMusic, Subscription Music Pioneer Business Matters: European Study on Piracy Conflicts With Conventional Wisdom PledgeMusic Announces Official Launch In Canada During Canadian Music Week 2013 Spotify removes five-play cap in the UK Demand for ad jingles turns L.A. songwriters into music factories A few reasons ...

If I told you that I could get together a big group of fans in one location and get nearly all of them to directly see and engage with all of your most important information, you'd probably want in on this magical sounding service. Yeah... it's email. Exciting, right? One of ...

Hastings Entertainment, Inc. Reports Results for the Fourth Quarter of Fiscal 2012 Google's Spring Cleaning and Other News You Need to Know 7digital promises 100m smartphone pre-installs in 2013 Online Music Piracy Doesn't Hurt Sales, European Commission Finds SXSW 2013: The artists, the stories that made an impression BitTorrent opens ...

For all you South By Southwesters, the weekend started a week ago and never really stopped. Please, don't rub it in. But for the rest of you depraved of the joys of SXSW, we have a host of song and video premieres to get your Friday nice and festive. To start off, Tape ...

7digital to be pre-installed on Samsung Galaxy S4 On Gaining Visibility Through Grooveshark: Mike Masnick vs. Bruce Houghton Interview: Alex Day talks BitTorrent, YouTube and the lure of touring MTV brings SXSW artists home to you Spotify, Rdio, Xbox Music Reps Debates the Merits of Subscription Music Streaming at SXSW

It's a hot topic right now: music in Asia. The big players are expanding there and local ones are building their business - and that's only the beginning. In response to this potential and growth, we've built up our presence on site in Singapore and India, making the most of all ...

Twitter to Release Its Own Music App, Says CNet Universal Launches Pan-African Mobile Streaming Service Kleek SXSW 2013: Serious fans spend more than $422 a year on music #SXSW Music Tech News: BitTorrent, Vimeo, Cinsay, Givit, Crowdsync, Vyclone, FastFan Spotify hits 6m subscribers and hints at post-PC priorities Nielsen Study: ...

There are few things that the Internet loves more than cute kids and cute kittens. Frenchkiss Records decided to exploit all of these weaknesses and more in some capacity with the release of the official trailer for their new YouTube channel, FKR.TV. This new venture is a partnership between Syd ...