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Google Launches Music Search With Lala, Pandora, Rhapsody, imeem & MySpace

By Big Al on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

This just in from the Technology department at the Los Angeles Times: Google this afternoon began rolling out its widely rumored music feature, which lets users search for and listen to entire songs for free. The search engine banded together with several music service sites that are responsible for streaming the songs on Google’s search [...]

Is The Future Of Music Really This Bleak?

By Big Al on Sunday, October 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Here’s an interesting article from the Chicago Tribune about album sales in 2008 and what it could mean for the future. Personally, I think it’s more evidence that the future is bright for the inventive independent artist. The Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit got rolling Sunday, an annual meeting of musicians, tech-heads, artist managers, [...]

How Can You Possibly Make Any Money Giving Away Your Music For Free?

By Big Al on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | 2 Comments

At this year’s NARM Connects event, there was a very interesting talk given by Michael Masnick called Learning From What’s Working: Success Stories From The Music Commerce Frontier. You might recognize Michael as one of the founders of TechDirt. As for NARM (the National Association of Recording Merchandisers), it’s a not-for-profit trade association that serves [...]