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Music Industry News May 2013

Vigier introduces its first single cut electric guitar
 
Vigier has introduced a new addition its family-the very first Vigier single-cutaway electric guitar. This elite baby will deliver the hottest sounds of all guitars in Vigier's...



Gibson announces Dark Fire limited availability
 
Gibson Guitar has announced the limited availability of the Gibson Dark Fire guitar. Embracing the spirit of innovation and technical advancement that inspired the original Gibson...



Kanye, Guns N' Roses Post Slow Debut-Week Sales
 
Billboard.com reports: While mainstream media is touting that the Black Friday weekend started the holiday selling season with a bang, music merchandisers certainly didn't have...



AT&T Luring New Customers With the Power of ?Guitar Hero?
 
Count AT&T as the latest company to hop on the Guitar Hero gravy train. Coinciding with today?s release of Guitar Hero: World Tour Mobile, AT&T announced that it is offering a...



Music Mogul offers virtual world to musicians, fans
 
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) ? Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer Rodney Jerkins and former Vivendi Games executive Nicholas Longano are teaming up on a technology project that...



Live Nation Plans Digital Service, Takes On Entire Music Industry
 
They are already the world?s largest concert promoters, they?ve branched out to form their own ticketing service and record labels, and now Live Nation will seek to challenge...



Ticketmaster Experiments With Dropping Fees
 
Billboard reports: Ticketmaster Entertainment president and Ticketmaster CEO Sean Moriarty said yesterday (Nov. 10) during a conference call with investors that the company is...



AC/DC Out Sell The Beatles
 
Sony reports: 2008 is shaping up to be a year of firsts for AC/DC. With over 5.3 million copies of Black Ice shipped worldwide, combined with over 5.1 million in catalog sold this...



MTV Europe Music Awards swept by Obamamania
 
Yahoo news: LIVERPOOL, England ? Obamamania met Beatlemania Thursday, as Liverpool hosted an MTV Europe Music Awards show energized by the city's musical heritage and the U.S....



Fender introduces Jim Adkins JA-90 thinline guitar
 
Fender signature model has been released, this collaboration involving Jimmy Eat World's frontman and guitarist Jim Adkins. Fender and Adkins sat down and went over his old Fender...



U2 Receives 1.56 Million Live Nation Shares For Deal
 
2 will receive an estimated $19 million worth of Live Nation shares as part of a 12-year deal the rock band signed with the concert promotion company earlier this year. Los...



Social-networking giant's new service streams millions of songs for free
 
Rollingstone.com: From Lily Allen to My Chemical Romance, MySpace has made its name as a career booster for rising acts. But can the social-networking site now do the same for the...



Bose L1 Model II System and T1 Tonematch Audio Engine for Musicians
 
Guitarsite.com reports: The L1 Model II system and T1 ToneMatch audio engine are the latest in a line of portable line array systems from Bose. These products build on the unique...



Nokia takes on Apple in music, touch-screen phones
 
LONDON (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's top mobile phone maker, launched its free music package on Thursday, issuing a challenge to Apple Inc's dominance of the digital music...



METALLICA Vs. FERNANDES GUITARS
 
According to TMZ.com, METALLICA's lawyers have slapped Fernades Guitars in North Hollywood with a cease-and-desist letter demanding they no longer use bassist Robert Trujillo or...



Corey Taylor steps into illegal downloading debate
 
Kerrang.com reports: Following the arrest of Kevin Cogill - the man accused of leaking Guns N' Roses' Chinese democracy album online - earlier this week, illegal downloading is...



Gibson and Epiphone announce the new Slash Les Paul Goldtop
 
Guitarsite.com reports: Gibson Guitar and Epiphone has announced the new Slash Les Paul Goldtop guitar models. In keeping with the Olympic theme of instilling a spirit into every...



Latest in Guitar Software
 
Guitarsite.com has added the latest guitar software to Shareware Music Machine. - FretPet for Macintosh Guitar-oriented music sequencer and chord reference. Mac OS 9 Full...



Jonas Brothers Begin Second Week At No. 1
 
JONAS BROTHERS Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. Despite a huge drop-off from the gaudy numbers it posted last week, the Jonas Brothers begin a second week at No. 1 on The Billboard 200...



Blogger Arrested Over Guns N' Roses Leaks
 
By Associated Press Federal authorities say they have arrested a blogger suspected of streaming songs from Guns N' Roses unreleased album, "Chinese Democracy," on his Web...