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Musicadium LIMEWIRE - How Hypocritical! For Shame!! Thanks HypeBot for a great lunchtime read!

hypebot: The Great LimeWire Pizza Robbery
Source: www.hypebot.com
An Indie Label's Run In With LimeWire The staff of New Your City indie label Dovecote usually spends Wednasday's evenings hanging out at The Music Box, a usually quiet joint where the often often gives away free pizza to help...
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Musicadium Interesting follow up to the other day's Physical vs Digital debate. Will albums go this way?

JB HiFi stops selling CD singles because of declining sales | News.com.au Top stories | News.com.au
Source: www.news.com.au
A POPULAR chain store has stopped stocking CD singles because of declining sales.
July 1 at 5:01pm
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Musicadium FROM HYPEBOT: Unsigned Manchester UK band The Get Out Clause performed in front of a number of surveillance cameras on buses and streets and other public places around the country. They then used The Data Protection Act (the UK's version of US' Freedom Of Information Act) to get copies of the tapes and edited them into a video that's become a viral hit.

Paper cctv music video
Source: www.youtube.com
The infamous CCTV music video from The Get Out Clause
June 30 at 8:27pm
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Musicadium Today's Question: Does everyone in your band have a role to play in the running of the band's business, is there one person who does everything, or do you have a manager?

June 30 at 8:10pm
Melissa
Melissa at 1:40am July 1
I do all of the promotional/webby/behind the scenes stuff. I run the band in cahoots with my partner who is the official manager. We call him Mister Manager...or 'Tough Love' Tudorov...or...well I cant tell you the other name incase he's on here...but he gets us the work cos he dont take no crap from venues or agents, he just keeps negotiating whereas Id probably just spit in their eye and walk out in a huff :)
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Musicadium at 5:08pm July 1
Hopefully Mister Manager gets stuff done for you, Melissa! Do you find having a manager allows the band more time to be creative and get more writing done?
Melissa
Melissa at 7:12am July 2
I would say it seems the more time you have, the more you waste it!
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Musicadium How do you buy your music these days? Digital or Physical?

June 29 at 9:08pm
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Musicadium at 5:02pm June 30
@Nathan especially if your name is in the liners! What about digital booklets, hi-res, with possibly more artwork and more in them than perhaps the physical booklet? Is it simply the act of HOLDING it in your hands that you want?
Daz
Daz at 9:14pm June 30
I would maybe buy individual tracks digitally but generally prefer the whole album with liner notes etc
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Jess Speakman Hey Musicadium....Check us out...love your work!

Bj Lloyd & The Cold December
Ballarat born singer-songwriter BJ Lloyd in October 2008 left the band scene and started writing and performing as a solo acoustic act. Always finding it hard to get the...
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June 29 at 8:28pm
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Featured Artist: Glen Terry
Glen Terry is one of our blues artists - a fantastic performer who has played for audiences all around the world. From his MySpace: A very passionate, soulful entertainer, Glen has entertained people around the world...
June 29 at 8:01pm
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Musicadium congratulates their Artists on nominations in the QSong Awards!
The Musicadium team would like to congratulate our wonderful artists who have been nominated in the 2009 QMusic/Courier Mail QSong Awards...
June 29 at 12:11am
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Featured Video: Buckley Ward - Gates of White
Buckley Ward are a Melbourne band who have just signed with us! They are an exciting band - this filmclip is fantastic and we love the lyrics coming up as various pictures and signs throughout the clip...
June 29 at 12:11am
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Musicadium Brisbane Artists - Call for artists now up at the 2highfestival website!

2high Festival 2009
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June 28 at 4:23pm
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Musicadium sends best wishes to the family and friends of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett - two amazing pop icons in one day. RIP.

June 25 at 6:47pm
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Musicadium Artist Steve Grady plays at Apple Store Robina!
Musicadium Artist Steve Grady played at the Apple Store at Robina Shopping Centre Saturday 20th June and Photographer Beck Cains was there again. She got some great shots of Steve. Steve’s Bio: There ‘aint much to do in Redcliffe. (Unless you are retired)...
June 25 at 12:27am
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New Artists 2 Radio Entries Closing Soon
From the New Artists to Radio website: ENTRIES CLOSE FOR 2009 NA2R IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS ON 3 JULY...
June 25 at 12:27am
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Musicadium is distributing Christian Alexander's Track Too Fine featuring JA RULE. JA RULE. Serious!

June 24 at 7:17pm
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Musicadium Pondering this: In a second wave of major restructuring, MySpace announced this morning that it will cut 300 of its 450 international staffers and close at least four overseas offices. That is ROUGH. In a HypeBot poll last week, MySpace was voted still relevant as a music marketing tool, albeit a hard one to use. Penny for your thoughts?

hypebot: MySpace Cuts 66% Of International Staff
Source: www.hypebot.com
In a second wave of major restructuring, MySpace announced this morning that it will cut 300 of its 450 international staffers and close at least four overseas offices.. The moves on the heels of Facebook passing MySpacein both visitors and...
June 23 at 9:47pm
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Keri at 11:05pm June 23
I still have my site...but I don't use it near as much as I used to. I have my own offical site now where I can sell product...and pretty well control everything including my stats etc. I think facebook has more advantages these days as a music networking tool.
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Musicadium at 11:58pm June 23
Exactly my thoughts, Andrew. Even Facebook is proving to be almost a better EPK for bands to pimp their wares to industry and fans as it at least has a standard look and feel. There are so many cluttered and poorly designed band myspaces.
Tim
Tim at 4:06am June 24
People criticise the myspace interface.. that's not the issue for me, because the graphics and sound on myspace players allow for artists to express their individuality both visually and sonically, whereas facebook looks like a geeky computer site. Social networking is faddish. What's missing from myspace is good music industry journalism on the myspace site.. e.g. in the pull down myspace menus at top of page, music news feeds from Rollingstone, NME..
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John Meyer Hey Musicadium luv ya work!

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Brisbane singer-songwriter JOHN MEYER is a versatile indie troubadour. His music explores territory ranging from lovingly hand-crafted folky pop tunes through to dramatic,...
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June 22 at 11:40pm
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Musicadium Post a link to your band's page on our wall so we can add it to our favourite pages!

June 22 at 10:53pm
Andrew Stone

Andrew Stone Hey Time and Sarah - are we going to see you at the Montpelier gig on Sat? Should be fun times and it'd be good to catch up!

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Musicadium at 6:51am June 22
Hey! Can't see why not, dude. Free gig in the middle of the valley...? What's not to love? Do you want to do a featured artist interview? email me tomorrow info@musicadium.com
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The Online Artist Report Card
Source: www.waycooljnr.com.au
The challenge for independent artists, label managers, artist managers and anyone working with artists in online marketing is deciding where to apportion effort.
June 22 at 12:05am
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Musicadium Agreeing with statement from hypebot: So why can't the industry offer blanket licenses that monetize these sites instead of enriching lawyers? The alternative is an endless game of global whack-a-mole.

Thoughts?

hypebot: More Major Label vs. Startup: EMI Sues Grooveshark
Source: www.hypebot.com
VS. Grooveshark has become the latest music startup to be sued by EMI. Under the motto "Millions Of Songs. Find Yours", Grooveshark combs a database of 6 million songs spread across the internet for quick and easy playback. But like...
June 18 at 7:18pm
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Rhys at 6:58am June 19
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Musicadium Do you know a musician who is not on iTunes, eMusic, AmazonMP3 or Nokia who should be!? Be a sport and tell them about us?? ♥

June 17 at 9:45pm
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Video Voyeurism: Tokenview - What can I do
A few weeks ago, we helped Tokenview have their song What Can I Do get the Free Single of the Week on the front page of the iTunes Store! We loved the song as soon as the disc came in. Now we have just found the film clip for the song and this RULES...
June 17 at 3:38am
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Hot Cover Art: Only the Sea Slugs - Dreamstate
We are all massive fans of Only The Sea Slugs here in the Musicadium office - we received their EP and instantly fell in love with this odd, but fascinating creature on the front cover. We recommend that you check out their MySpace - definitely ones to watch...
June 17 at 3:38am
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Musicadium Hello to all our new fans - if you haven't checked it out before - check out our website - if you didn't already know, we do Digital Distribution and we are about to do a WHOLE lot more.

Musicadium - Digital Music Distribution
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Musicadium is a worldwide digital distribution company that helps independent artists and record labels distribute, market and promote their music on iTunes, emusic and Amazon mp3.
June 17 at 3:38am
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Musicadium is a digital music distribution service
June 16 at 10:47pm
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Ange Takats tells us a story…
Ange Takats weaves intricate and soulful stories with her beautiful lyrics, melodies and soul. Her music manages to combine the songwriting talents reminiscent of Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell with a modern-day fervour and sass...
June 12 at 1:41am
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10th June, 2009, With Digital Love Showcase
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.
June 11 at 11:07pm
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Musicadium would like to thank everyone who came along to the Musicadium With Digital Love showcase last night. Thank you to Moonjog, Streamer Bendy and The Gallant and to the lovely staff at BarSoma!

June 10 at 5:20pm
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Musicadium Politics and music mix! Wayne Swan (Treasurer of Australia) just turned up to our Musicadium gig!

June 10 at 6:29am
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The Death of Pop Music
I’m not sure how this happened. I’m an outsider in the world of music, an industry I’ve loved and been involved in all of my adult life...
June 5 at 1:17am
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Musicadium Sponsors QSong - record number of entries!
Last year, Musicadium sponsored the New Music/Experimental Award - this year, we are sponsoring both the New Music and Experimental award AND the Pop Award! We are proud to be associated with the premier Song Awards in Queensland...
June 4 at 5:20pm
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Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t.
On a reasonably similar note to one of the last blogs I wrote about bands changing their appearance/style/genre, I had this thought a little while ago! Music fans can be so fickle - what is the secret to keeping your fans onside, no matter what directions you take your band/music in...
June 4 at 12:31am