Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 12:37PM GMT
The bosses of Live Nation and Ticketmaster were questioned by the
snappily titled US Senate Judiciary's Subcommittee On Antitrust,
Competition Policy And Consumer Rights yesterday with regards their
proposal that the two live entertainment firms m 
So, how do people working in music know who's signing who, what those pesky record labels are up to, what the latest download whatnot is, who is moving and shaking, who is spending and saving, who is planning and scheming, or, for that matter, what Pete and Amy and Britney are up to? Simple, they read CMU Daily, the UK music business' biggest and most popular daily news bulletin. Now you to can get the lowdown from Team CMU, here on the CMU-Blog. You'll find even more at www.thecmuwebsite.com
Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 12:34PM GMT
A long running and previously reported lawsuit between the
production company who oversaw the early career of Eminem and the
superstar rapper's record company, Universal Music's Aftermath, has
finally reached the court room, and some big names are Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 10:57AM GMT
Bruce Springsteen has been announced at this year's Saturday
headliner at Glastonbury, taking over the slot filled last year by
Jay-Z. A less controversial option, you might think, but my mum isn't
convinced he's such a great choice. My mum doesn' Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 10:52AM GMT
Last.fm has come out fighting after an article was posted on techie
website TechCrunch on Friday night accusing the music service of
handing over a load of user data to US music industry trade body the
Recording Industry Association Of America.
Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 10:47AM GMT
This is without doubt my favourite news story so far this year.
It's materialised that Swiftcover, the car insurance company with that
slightly scary Iggy Pop fronted TV ad campaign, won't insure musicians,
because if they are injured in an accide Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 10:43AM GMT
Robert Smith has said that he doesn't like the pay-what-you-like
way that Radiohead released 2007 album 'In Rainbows', because he thinks
it devalues the music.
Smith
said: "The Radiohead experiment of paying what you want - I disagreed
vi Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 10:41AM GMT
Bookmakers say that they are the victims of a music related
gambling sting, after losing £100,000 in payouts to people who bet on
Paul Weller to win Best Male. It's thought that the fact Weller had won
somehow leaked out before the awards show la Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 10:34AM GMT
There's been a mixed response to the publication of that image of a
bruised Rihanna, initially on celebrity website TMZ.com.
As
LA police announced it was investigating how the picture, seemingly
taken after the pop star was beaten up by h Posted Wed 25 Feb 2009 10:31AM GMT
I was wrong, things didn't, as I'd predicted, get more interesting
when the most eloquent of the Pirate Bay Four took to the witness
stand. The rogue BitTorrent Tracker's main spokesman, Peter Sunde, was
questioned on day five of the Pirate Bay tr Posted Fri 20 Feb 2009 1:09PM GMT
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