Jordin Sparks has signed a record deal with American Idol and 19 Recordings label creator Simon Fuller and Jive Records. Her Debut Album will be released in November, with a New Single “Tattoo” on August 27th.
Sparks made the statement: “American Idol” has truly been a life-altering experience. I can’t wait to […]

In celebration of the 50th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival Records will make it’s debut with a remarkable series of historic live-at-Monterey releases.
Not only does this mark the first time a festival has launched it’s own label, but the riches of its tape archives—more than 1600 tapes with more than 2000 hours of […]

The Motley Fool has a great article called “CD Is the New Vinyl.” Interesting reading about declining CD sales, SoundScan, Billboard charts and the need for the major record labels to re-invent themselves. A good narrative on the current status of our music industry. ww.fool.com
In a related story (somewhat) of music distribution, […]

Paul McCartney really rocked at the Amoeba Record Store in Hollywood yesterday.  It was his latest free concert of a series of small venue gigs that started right after the release of his new album Memory Almost Full.
Paul and Ringo was on CNN’s Larry King Live just yesterday for the one year celebration of the […]

From the Rhino Records June Newsletter @ www.rhino.com:
ATLANTIC RECORDS’ 60th ANNIVERSARY

The late Ahmet Ertegun founded Atlantic Records in 1947, and within a decade the company had become the country’s preeminent R&B label.
Rhino will celebrate the influential imprint’s 60th anniversary with several releases beginning this month. The new documentary American Masters - Atlantic Records: […]

CinemaNow Inc., a popular website for downloadable Hollywood movies and TV shows, has redesigned their website for music videos, WatchMusicHere.com.

And for a limited time, you can buy exclusive music videos from one of my favorite major music labels, the Warner Music Group (WMG), who is currently providing content at WatchMusicHere.com.
http://www.watchmusichere.com/
http://www.cinemanow.com/
Source:  www.wmg.com

The Traveling Wilburys Collection released today and will feature both remastered CD’s, Volume 1 and Volume 3 from superstar supergroup The Traveling Wilburys;
George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan.
The ultimate collection has both CD’s, plus the DVD contains the band’s five music videos,  24-minute documentary of unseen footage, and rare bonus tracks.  Rhino Records  3-disc special edition collection is available June […]

Warner Brothers has always been one of my favorite record labels.  Not only because I worked for one of their distributors, but because they have such a vast wealth of music and video archives.  On the web, content is king, and in the music business, WB is one of the biggest media companies in the world.  […]

Paul McCartney’s newest album “Memory Almost Full” is the first official release on the Starbucks Hear Music record label.  McTwee & ”Memory Almost Full” both debut at Starbucks stores across the US on Tuesday June 5th.  It was just released in the UK and worldwide a day before.
YouTube Video Channel features “Dance Tonight.”  Filmed in London last March, the video stars Paul […]

1st Single: “Ever Present Past” Audio:  WinMedia  ~  RealAudio 
“Memory Almost Full” Album Segways:  WinMedia  ~  RealAudio
“Dance Tonight” is the first music video from Paul McCartney’s new album Memory Almost Full.  The full video will debut on YouTube on May 23rd, but an advance clip is already on amazon.com.  It was filmed in London last March, and stars McCartney, […]