Burning Man: Fact & Fiction lays down the truth about the wild celebration in the Nevada desert the week before LaborDay. There's lots of music (see how I made this relevant to our blog),...

Shared Media Licensing's (SML) Weedshare, an early digital music service, has suspended operations. Weedshare was smoked by Microsoft, whose latest version of Windows Media Player was...

Research from The Diffusion Group (TDG) shows continued but restrained growth for podcasting as the service moves from early adopters to the mass market. TDG says that customers are poorly educated...

Jimmy Ruska's Awesome Video Blog at jimmyr.com proves there is plenty of unauthorized music sitting on the web, courtesy of Google and your browser. No need to fire up your P2P software. The web...

It makes sense. Music without restrictions should be more popular. But is that what really happens? Yes, so far. EMI says that sales for music without DRM is significantly better than sales with it...

MySpace may be the king but it's not the only network to promote or even sell your music. The article Rock On: 12 of the Best Music Social Networks does a nice job summarizing their picks for the...

Sony's digital entertainment woes continue as its music service Sony Connect is being closed. Some personnel have been laid with more expected to follow over the next few months. Sony...

OVERSI CACHES $8 MILLION FOR P2P CONTENT Israel-based Oversi added $8 million in a second round of funding from Carmel Ventures, StageOne Ventures, TempoPark Fund, and Cisco. Oversi was founded in...

Hallmark has new line of musical greeting cards. This is a great commercial with dad opening a card for Father's Day that sings MC Hammer's Hammertime. The cards retail for a whopping five...

With Apple and the major recording labels integrating your name and address into digital music files, it's only a matter of time before the encryption is broken or they or others start tracking...

Adult entertainment DVD sales and rentals dropped for the first time to $3.6 billion in 2006 from $4.2 billion in 2005, according to industry trade magazine AVN. From the sales drop to the rise in...

In a blow for common sense and against the Bush Administration's pandering to the religious right, a US Court overturned the FCC's ban on 'fleeting expletives'. The US Court of...

Digital music analyst Todd Beals shares his impressions from the NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) conference in Chicago. The event features performances and interviews with top...

The web site Consumerist ran a poll for worst company in the United States. The winner was RIAA (never mind that it's not an actual company). Consumerist published the top 50 congresspeople who...

The New York Times ask this question in Where's the Other Half of Your Music File? While data storage for drives in computer and portable music players has zoomed over the past decade, the...

FREEHAND SYSTEMS GRABS $2 MILLION FOR digital sheet music Freehand Systems closed grabs $2 million in a third round of capital from Vision Capital Advisors. Freehand manufactures MusicPad Pro Plus, a...

New York artist and former software programmer Jonathan Coulton is profiled in the New York Times magazine section. He explains how he's created a full-time living through free distribution. He...

RIAA has entered a new stage in its fight to tame wild college students. In addition to suing students directly, it's pressed the school themselves with limited progress to restrict access to P2P...

Wireless network Amp'd Mobile filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Amp'd leases access to the Verizon Wireless mobile network. The company has tried to differentiate itself by providing music,...

Another week, another Hollywood lawsuit against a web sharing site. This time it's Warner Music and imeem. Imeem has attracted a lot of visitors for its user-content sharing service. It claims a...

This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of...