The News Review:
- Wireless Week
- Joline Gutierrez Krueger: Parents at Vans Warped Tour can bond with…
- Are free CDs killing music?
Wireless Week
Wireless Week – Jul 13, 2007
cities coast to coast this summer you need to check the mobile fan community and experience put together by Cellfish. The mobile and Web entertainment portal has created the Mobile Threat channel for metal hardcore. Mobile Threat will promote fan and community participation including a contest seeking the best mobile experience blog at the show.
Joline Gutierrez Krueger: Parents at Vans Warped Tour can bond with…
Albuquerque Tribune – Jul 13, 2007
Because time is fleeting changes are fewer and both are already 14. Because they are really just nice typical kids and I needed to remember that. Dozens of us are here parents who not so much love punk music as we love the punks we gave birth to. And because we never were the generation to curl up and blow away as the years go by. Maria Zuniga-Lott 52 from Las Cruces is here with her two daughters ages 13 and 17. “I think it’s great here” says Zuniga-Lott a stylish woman in white button-down blouse and khaki capris who looks dressed more for jazz than emo. “There’s no alcohol here and everybody’s so energetic.
Are free CDs killing music?
BBC News – Jul 13, 2007
40 for the newspaper will be the only way to get the album. The Mail on Sunday says the deal – which earns Prince an undisclosed fee – is all about giving music to the masses and free CDs usually increase sales for the artist. But the shops are outraged and predict that music lovers will lose out. Although covermounts have for years been a major concern to the Entertainment Retailers Association its director general Kim Bayley says this marks a new low. “It devalues the music and the losers will be new artists who are trying to come through who won’t have any support from recording companies because established artists are chucking out their music for free. “Consumers only have so much listening time in the week and if they receive the new album from Prince then they don’t need to buy new music and will spend their money on something else. ” Profits halvedGiving away something for free gives the impression it has no value says Ms Bayley and along with illegal downloads they reinforce consumer expectations that music costs next to nothing… We have 15 and 16-year-old kids finding music is easily available and there’s no yearning for something that they’ve never had. ” But he warned that while the giveaway can stimulate interest in an artist it can also cheapen music because the CDs often have poor quality content on them. The promise of a “history of punk” CD for example may turn out to be no more than some rubbish live tracks from second-rate bands. One of the reasons why Q Magazine last year radically reduced the frequency with which it gave away free CDs was because bosses felt it was cheapening the product. “The last thing we want is people saying ‘free magazine with CD’ says Q’s managing director Stuart Williams. “That’s probably what happened with Smash Hits and Top of the Pops magazine. It became more about what we stuck on the front cover rather than the front cover itself.