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Apple Disables Every Looted iPhone While Tracking the Stolen Devices

June 3, 2020

An Apple Store is completely cleared out by looters on Walnut Street in Philadelphia. One of the iPhones looted from the Walnut Street location. After witnessing nearly every one of its Apple Stores getti... Read More...

Apple Stores Reopening In the U.S., Germany, and Australia This Week

Ashley King

May 11, 2020

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Photo Credit: Kaiyu Wu Apple stores around the world will begin re-opening this week with new social distancing measures. Apple says its stores in Idaho, South Carolina, Alabama, and Alaska will re-open this... Read More...

California Allows Record Stores to Reopen — With Conditions, Of Course

Dylan Smith

May 8, 2020

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(photo: Clay Banks) As part of its plan to gradually lift COVID-19 restrictions, California is allowing record stores to reopen. However, government officials have laid out bolstered sanitization protocols an... Read More...

Bandcamp Generates $7.1 Million for Artists In One Day After Waiving All Commissions

Ashley King

May 5, 2020

Photo Credit: Skylar Sahakian On May 1st, Bandcamp waived its revenue share with artists on the platform for 24 hours. Over $7.1 million went directly into artists' pockets. Bandcamp announced the initiative... Read More...

Seattle’s Iconic Bop Street Records Is Going Out of Business

Dylan Smith

April 30, 2020

Photo Credit: Unsplash Seattle's iconic Bop Street Records is permanently closing its retail store as a result of economic strains stemming from the novel coronavirus crisis. Bop Street founder and owner Dav... Read More...

Record Store Day Isn’t Getting Cancelled In Britain — Here’s the New Plan

Dylan Smith

April 29, 2020

photo: Jamakassi Record Store Day UK organizers are preparing to carry out their much-anticipated event while also adhering to social-distancing guidelines and assuring the safety of both employees and custom... Read More...

Amoeba Music Is Permanently Closing Its Sunset Boulevard Location

Dylan Smith

April 28, 2020

A mural painted at Amoeba Music's old Hollywood store (photo: Goofyboy777) Amoeba Music's Sunset Boulevard location won't be reopening, according to a newly published statement from the famed record store. A... Read More...

Guitar Center Suffers Major Ratings Downgrade from Moody’s: ‘Leverage Remains High and Cash Flow Is Limited’

Dylan Smith

April 24, 2020

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One of Guitar Center's stores in Houston, Texas (photo: Brian Reading) Moody’s has downgraded the credit rating of Guitar Center, and the Westlake Village-based music retailer is continuing to struggle financ... Read More...

Amoeba Music Raises $160,000 In 2 Days — And Counting

Dylan Smith

April 23, 2020

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Music fans and loyal customers have contributed over $160,000 and counting to the GoFundMe campaign started by Amoeba Music earlier this week. This impressive early showing of financial support has resulted ... Read More...

Amoeba Music Launches a GoFundMe Campaign In a Desperate Bid to Survive

Dylan Smith

April 21, 2020

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Famed record store brand Amoeba Music is facing an uncertain future because of economic strains from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic — so much so that its co-founder, Marc Weinstein, has created a GoFundM... Read More...

Taylor Swift Keeps a Struggling Indie Record Store In Nashville Afloat

Ashley King

April 2, 2020

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Photo Credit: Kevin Laminto Taylor Swift is helping to keep an indie record store in the heart of Nashville alive during the coronavirus pandemic. Nashville's mayor issued a stay-at-home order, and retail ou... Read More...

Apple Stores In Lockdown; Apple Employee Tests Positive In Culver City Campus

Dylan Smith

March 17, 2020

An Apple Store in Beijing (photo: Kaiyu Wu) Apple has closed its brick-and-mortar stores, and one of the company’s Culver City, California, employees has tested positive for COVID-19. Excepting the 42 Apple ... Read More...

It Took Years for These Music Industry Experts to Learn These Monetization Pro-Tips

Working Through the Pandemic: Three Prominent Music Supervisors Discuss the Music Industry’s Way Forward

How to License Your Music Directly From Your Website & Win

The New World of Sync: How Two Sync Music Pros Are Surviving COVID-19

Songtradr Joins the Growing Music Industry Recovery Effort — Donates All Sync Commissions to Musicians

Here Are Some of the Latest — and Most Significant — Sync Music Deals

Sync Music Licensing: Secrets for Scoring Deals and Maximizing Revenue

Quadraphonic Sound Died In the 1970s. So Why Is Somebody Bringing It Back?

Apple Expands Its Original Podcast Presence With ‘The Zane Lowe Interview Series’

Apple Quietly Launches Apple News+ Audio Stories in Beta

Does Joe Rogan’s Spotify Deal Signal the End of Independent Podcasting?

Spotify Paid More Than $100MM for Its Joe Rogan Podcast Deal — Report

Joe Rogan’s Podcast Is Now a Spotify Exclusive

LiveXLive Jumps Into Podcasting With $18 Million Acquisition

Apple Disables Every Looted iPhone While Tracking the Stolen Devices

Apple Stores Reopening In the U.S., Germany, and Australia This Week

California Allows Record Stores to Reopen — With Conditions, Of Course

Bandcamp Generates $7.1 Million for Artists In One Day After Waiving All Commissions

Seattle’s Iconic Bop Street Records Is Going Out of Business

Record Store Day Isn’t Getting Cancelled In Britain — Here’s the New Plan

Amoeba Music Is Permanently Closing Its Sunset Boulevard Location

Guitar Center Suffers Major Ratings Downgrade from Moody’s: ‘Leverage Remains High and Cash Flow Is Limited’

Amoeba Music Raises $160,000 In 2 Days — And Counting

Apple Stores In Lockdown; Apple Employee Tests Positive In Culver City Campus