As we prepare for our quintessential American birthday celebration and Independents Day, the worldwide celebration of independent music, I wanted to take a moment to share some important milestones here at eMusic.
First, eMusic is celebrating our tenth birthday this year. Ten years of leading the industry in selling unencumbered MP3s. Ten years of focusing on [...]

It is with regret that I write today to inform our loyal customers that the much-admired Epitaph record label — including the Anti and Hellcat labels — has chosen to no longer sell their catalogue on eMusic in the U.S. It sucks for all of us who have been great fans of Epitaph’s amazing artist [...]

Tony Wilson, record label owner, journalist, nightclub entrepreneur and much much more, has died, leaving a hole in the lives of his family and friends, the cultural life of Britain and the music scene worldwide. Wilson died yesterday (August 10th) in Manchester’s Christie Hospital from complications arising from kidney cancer. He was 57.
Tony Wilson is [...]

As eMusic’s CEO David Pakman noted in his 17 Dots post about the future of DRM-free music, eMusic is a music retailer. Our job is to provide consumers with an easy, pleasant and affordable way to help people purchase music that they like, thereby supporting the artists who create music and the labels who distribute [...]

eMusic is simply a retailer, and like any good retailer we do our best to respond to what our customers demand. They tell us DRM is a no-go. Check! They tell us they’re sick of manufactured pop and want music with more passion, grit and heft. Check! And they tell us 99 cents a track [...]

The re-recording fad explained by the New York Times in yet another sign of how screwed up the record industry is. Also in the Times, the so-called “Justin Timberlake Effect” that has nothing to do with Justin Timberlake.

There’s a post on TechCrunch today by Michael Arrington that really got my blood boiling. Arrington writes:
The faster music labels realize their massively profitable days are over, the better it will be for them, as well as the bands they represent and us, their customers. Digital music sales are not going to make up for [...]