Streaming
in the Car Is Huge Business – So Which Service Will Win?
As
the New York International Auto Show opened on April 18, a
rash of announcements and demonstrations heralded the
ongoing rush to further music-connectivity in cars.
AT&T added Volvo to its stable of cars that will link to
its wireless Sensus Connect infotainment option, Pioneer put
out the word that it will connect its in-dash systems to
Apple's CarPlay interface, and Jaguar showed off new
features, developed with Bosch SofTech, that allow apps from
iPhone and Android devices to be displayed on a car's tech
system.
8
Things Singer/Songwriters Need To Know About Hiring
Freelance Musicians
Sure,
all musicians love the art. Love the craft. Have a passion
that bleeds out of their eyeballs. It’s the only reason
they chose such an unstable career. But
musicians, like all other humans, need to eat. Just because
they’re holding a guitar instead of a hammer, you
shouldn’t treat their craft any less valuably.
AT&T
Explores Expansion Of Super-Fast Internet
AT&T
plans a major expansion of super-fast Internet
services to cover as many as 100 municipalities in
25 metropolitan areas.
The
12 Most Powerful People In the Music Industry Right Now
What
have you done for the industry lately? These
are the people making the biggest impact on the future of
music, right now
Record
Labels Sue Pandora Over Pre-1972 Recordings
As
expected, the three major labels, ABKCO, and the RIAA filed
a copyright infringement lawsuit in New York state court
against Pandora for playing pre-Feb. 15, 1972 recordings
without making any royalty payments. This suit is a
follow-up to the one
filed against SiriusXM last September.
The
integration will be across the mobile operating
system and will likely integrate closely with the
iTunes Store and iTunes Radio, which has been
rumored to be a separate app in the next version of
iOS.
iTunes
Radio Hints at Global Expansion
Streaming
services continue to take heat from all
kinds of musicians, but that isn’t slowing
Apple down. In fact, it looks like Apple is getting
ready to take iTunes Radio global. The service is
currently limited to the United States and Australia.
Music
services are partnering up with carriers faster than
dancers at a hoedown, the latest is a reported
hook-up between Spotify and Sprint. So what do
telecoms bring to the dance?
Congress
Tells Google: Clean Up Your Search Results, Or We Will
Rep.
Tom Marino (R) Pennsylvania: Thank you
Chairman, and thank you to the panel members for being here.
I hear dozens and dozens of war stories from creators
who have come to personally see me, and they’ve shared
their nightmares with me, almost exactly the way
[Grammy-winning songwriter] Ms. Schneider has genuinely and
eloquently stated what she has been going through.
TuneCore,
a self-serve music distribution platform used by
independent artists, paid out $34.1 million in the
first quarter of this year, up 75% over the same
period last year.
Jeff
Smulyan Predicts NextRadio's Next Step To Reaching Critical
Mass
The
growth of NEXTRADIO continues unabated. Just two weeks ago
(NET NEWS, 3/31), ALL ACCESS reported that a
quarter-million NEXTRADIO apps had been downloaded and
almost 8,000 FM stations had been tuned in by users who
listened for almost 200,000 hours.
