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Imeem Gets All The Majors

The social networking site imeem.com has signed a deal with Universal records and is now the only site on the web that offer frees, unlimited music from all four major record labels. News like that must drive the RIAA’s lawyers crazy. Check it out at www.cnnmoney.com.

Ripping CDs is Illegal: RIAA

You knew it was coming to this: the RIAA has declared in a court filing that it considers ripping a CD to be an illegal act, regardless of the reason for doing so. Therefore, if you rip a CD to put it on your MP3 player or just to have a backup copy in [...]

Dealing with a Weak Dollar: Take Your Tour Overseas

In the ‘how to we make more money with music’ category, Reuters offers the suggestion that bands should deal with the puny state of the greenback by heading overseas. Exactly how the weak dollar improves the bottom line requires a bit of thinking but considering the ongoing steep decline of the US greenback, [...]

Bye-bye to Geffen Records?

Record companies’ various sub-labels used to be a lot like automobile nameplates; introduced at the bottom of the line, then gradually rising into costlier and costlier product. Universal’s Geffen Records certainly had its time in the sun, with Guns N’ Roses, Nirvana and Sonic Youth issuing CDs under the label. Now, however, word has [...]

Tune-In Tuesday

Over at the Courier-Journal J. L. Puckett’s Tune-In Tuesday focuses on The Wu-Tang Clan, which has a new CD, 8 Diagrams, just released today. Read the whole list for yourself here.