26th Jul 2012
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As Universal finalises its divestment plan to try and win approval for the EMI bid, the independent music sector seems completely divided on what it could mean for them.
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Torrentfreak has obtained a leaked IFPIreport addressing the organisation’s global anti-piracy strategy.The 30-page report makes for interesting reading, flagging up the usual P2P suspects but throwing in a bit of a twist by pointing up that another potential threat takes the form of hackers targeting artist and management accounts to access unreleased music.
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The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), and online promotion platform Sonicbids are teaming up to launch an initiative supposedly focused on “Placing grassroots acts in the UK’s independent festivals”. The Gen takes a closer look.
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PRS For Music are offering a make over and we don’t mean a weekend in a health spa for soiled and broken indie bands following the muddy festival season. Hot on the heels of the previously reported Live Music Bill, the ‘Music Makeover’ competition will offer pubs in the UK a chance to bid for £5,000 to improve facilities and make live music a key part of their venue. You know, putting on live turns and that.
18th Jul 2012
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The Pirate Bay has claimed that the blocks put in place by the major ISPs in the UK have had almost no effect on traffic to their site.
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Yet more Universal drama- In a bizarre 48 hours, European music trade association IMPALA have restated their opposition to Universal’s controversial take-over of EMI despite Co-President Patrick Zelnick going a bit ‘Colonel Kurtz’ and publicly backing the merger.
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It has been a big month for the Beeb as Moyles moves on, Grimshaw rises early and the corporation confirm that money spent on radio has increased by £7m in 2012. Moyles made his shock announcement on-air last week, saying during his breakfast show broadcast on 11 June: "We're off. I wanted to let you know. A couple more months of us, then it's someone else's turn. Thank you for listening."
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US based crowdfunding site Kickstarter is set to launch in the UK later this year. The site has helped to launch everything from an open source submarine to a new Amanda Palmer album and will now enable British entrepreneurs to target fans with various pre-sale incentives and exclusives in exchange for investment.
12th Jul 2012
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As we prepare to tune in to Generator’s Music Futures panel event on the Future of Broadcast on 19th July, The Gen’s Editor Paul Reed caught up with legendary champion of new music and XFM presenter John Kennedy. How did you get into broadcasting? “In many ways, I stumbled into it. I was doing a media course for the unemployed, started up my own club night with a friend and began writing about music for the student newspaper.
11th Jul 2012
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Users of rising social media site Pinterest can now ‘pin’ or embed tracks from Soundcloud onto their page in addition to sharing video, but does the site have the potential to be a useful tool for artists?Some artists are already using the site as a kind of digital scrapbook, sharing photographs and other visual artefacts with fans. The potential for content to ‘go viral’ as the now ominous sounding corporate cliché goes is quite similar to Twitter, with other users able to ‘repin’ what you post.
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