A2IM: American Association of Independent Music

Posted in 2009 #29, Member Services, Newsletter by A2IM

Audiolife is a Direct-To-Fan eCommerce platform that empowers artists and record labels to sell customized digital and physical merchandise online directly to fans. In addition to its on-demand, no up-front cost solution to inventory management, Audiolife can meet the bulk purchasing, warehousing, and fulfillment needs of frequently touring artists. Specifically created with the new music business artist in mind, Audiolife provides a worldwide, one-stop shop for custom promotion, manufacturing, and distribution of digital, physical and mobile assets. (more…)

Posted in 2009 #29, Editorial, Newsletter by A2IM

The Value of Music

Clearly one of the biggest issues, if not the biggest issue, facing the music industry is that consumers are not respecting music and the need to compensate the creators of musical intellectual property. They also treat music as a commodity they are entitled to by right and the level of appreciation of music has declined. At this point we want to turn this issue over to a guest columnist, Rob Miller of A2IM member Bloodshot Records, for his view on the current “fan” view of music called “Music as Dumpster Pizza”, reprinted with Rob’s permission. (more…)

Posted in 2009 #29, Members Only, Newsletter, Special Offers by A2IM

During the recent WIN/A2IM Indie Label Think Tank many members discussed the value of creating alternative or premium products. Additionally, an increasing number of A2IM members seem interested in special packaging ideas. A2IM label member, Madacy Entertainment, has some unique experience in a specific line of very successful premium Collectable Tins for music and is offering to work with A2IM label members that are interested in creating Collectable Tins for their label’s music. (more…)

Posted in 2009 #29, Newsletter by A2IM

YOUR MUSIC PLAYED IN STORES ACROSS EUROPE: Looking for Vibrant Pop, RNB, Dance and Hip Hop ONLY

Pure Play Music specializes in licensing opportunities across the UK and Europe, with a large in-store network of over 15,000 shops.

They are looking for great music to stream in stores across Europe!

The genres needed are: Pop, RNB, Dance and Hip Hop

Kussu Music Licensing Network is Looking for Music for a Feature Film

KMLN, a music content company with global businesses in music publishing and recorded music, is searching for music for a feature film. (more…)

Posted in 2009 #29, Education, Newsletter by A2IM

Who

General George Owen Squier was into firsts. He was a thinker and a doer. The inventor of Muzak was the first to fire a cannon using remote control – giving the men of 1897 goose bumps. He was the first Wright Brothers’ airplane passenger from the United States military, taking to the skies in 1908. He was also the first to design an aircraft for military use – paving the skyway for today’s Air Force. Always moving forward, Squier spent nearly forty years pioneering mass communication systems. The inventor of telephone multiplexing, Squier perfected a technique of transmitting music over power lines in 1922, changing the face of modern music transmission forever. (more…)

Posted in 2009 #29, Newsletter by A2IM

Net Neutrality Update: The new FCC Commissioner, Julius Genachowski issued a statement this week supporting a “free and open internet” and advocating that Net Neutrality be upheld. A2IM applauded the FCC Commissioner’s original statement and was even more encouraged a couple of days later when the commissioner added to his earlier comments by stating, “It is vital that illegal conduct be curtailed on the Internet. As I said in my Senate confirmation hearing, open Internet principles apply only to lawful content, services and applications-not to activities like unlawful distribution of copyrighted works, which has serious economic consequences. The enforcement of copyright and other laws and the obligations of network openness can and must co-exist.” Commissioner Genachowski’s full speech can be read here. (more…)