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CBS Buys Last.fm

CBS seeks to reach a younger demographic.

AOL To Compete with YouTube

They’re currently giving away a Camera-A-Day, uploaders only eligible

Lefsetz on Band Management & The Death of the CD

Lefsetz rips the corporates for their failure to pay attention to the impending demise of the music CD as a viable product.

Velocity Wednesday

The corporate ‘alternative’ weekly continues to refer to Louisville music as ‘local music.’

EMI Takeover Fight Continues

A Scorecard For the Players at Bloomberg

The battle over the sale of EMI continues to be a dust-up, emphasis on ‘dust,’ as the matter is mostly obscured by the blizzard of rumors and reports. Bloomberg has the current ‘hi-lite’ reel.

McCartney To Shill on the Home Shopping Network

Words Fail Us

If you needed any more convincing that the music business is permanently in the toilet, this item from Hypebot.com should seal the deal: The Home Shopping Network has signed a deal with Sir Paul McCartney to produce a ‘Paul McCartney Listening Party’ television special to promote his new CD. Read it [...]

When the Week Starts on Tuesday,

Can Friday Be Far Away?

The end of the Memorial Day weekend in Louisville also marked the end of the courier-journal.com Abbey Road On The River Festival, which closed out with a boomer-drawing “Summer of Love” theme. Naturally, you can read all about it here, the final daily write-up of the event in the C-J.

Sunday Media Wrapper

C-J Continues with AROTR Promotion

The Courier-Journal ran a full-page ad in the Sunday paper offering one free admission to the courier-journal.com Abbey Road on the River Festival for Monday. Must be slow downtown.

Andrew Adler’s column concerns the continuing money problems the Louisville Orchestra has despite paying off their bank loans.

J. L. Puckett, [...]

LEO Weekly Page Finally Updated

The LEO Weekly Page Stays with the June 15 Cover

Interesting that the LEO website has not yet been updated. Even though it’s usually late – Thursday or Friday – it’s seldom left untended until Saturday – Sunday – Monday . It certainly seems that the owners, a newspaper company, still don’t rate the web [...]

Velocity’s Cover Story – VHS or Beta

VHS or Beta – Trying to Grow and Keep Fans

My bad – so busy looking in the interior of Velocity that I ignored the cover story about the Louisville band VHS or Beta by Joshua Hammann. Read it here.