THE BLAME GAME: In his follow-up story on Google’s Music Beta cloud-based storage/player combo, which launched yesterday without the blessings of the Big Four (also see our story), the N.Y. Times’ Ben Sisario examines the gaping cultural chasm between the music and tech sectors. The stubbornness of the labels, he writes, has earned them a particular caricature in Silicon Valley: the bridge troll, demanding payment for passage. “Generally there were demands on the business side that we think were unreasonable and don’t enable us to have a sustainable, scalable music business,” said Zahavah Levine, Google’s lead negotiator. (5/11a)
THE COUNT: COLDPLAY IS HOT, COUNTRY'S COOKIN' IN THE U.K.
The latest tidbits from the bustling live sector (3/29a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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