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January 01, 1990 - February 12, 2013 + On the Beat
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LimeWire and the RIAA 
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob110105limewire_and_the_ria
At the behest of record labels, last October, US District Judge, Kimba Woods ordered LimeWire, the popular file-sharing service to suspend its peer-to-peer site. The...
IPad Apps
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob101222ipad_apps
No doubt about it. The most exciting growth in the record business this year has come from Apple. In fact, Apple has dominated the last...
EMI, Spotify and Google
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob101215emi_spotify_and_goog
Guy Hands may finally be losing control of his company, EMI Music Group, to their chief investor, the financial bank Citigroup. EMI owes Citibank almost...
Creative Protection
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob101201creative_protection
As we come upon the close of another year, it's hard not to be just a little nostalgic. Think about how much has changed in...
Advertising as Marketing
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob101124advertising_as_marke
Pomplamoose, the Bay area music duo, have done it again. Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte had already built a strong following around the country,...
The Beatles - The Long Now
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob101117the_beatles_the_long
The Beatles catalog has finally made it to ITunes. It’s a business deal ten years in the making.
Radical Act
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob101110radical_act
Punk rock music had its roots in the mid 1970's with bands like The Ramones, The Sex Pistols and The Clash. The defiant act of...
The SoundExchange Debate
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob101103the_soundexchange_de
The record business has notoriously been a closed mouth business. There's been little airing of laundry in public. But the digital music business is a...
The Record Business Is Volatile
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob101027the_record_business_
Predicting the future is often a fool's game, especially in the record
industry. The business is a complex environment, with many micro-climates
– each one...
This Year's Statistics
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob101020this_years_statistic
In the film The Social Network, the character of Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, claims he ruined the record business with his disruptive digital online
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Living Room Access
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob101006living_room_access
Since the 1960's, television has had an inextricable relationship with music. Whether Ed Sullivan and The Beatles, Michael Jackson with MTV, Eminem, Lady Gaga, or...
How Did We Get Here Anyway
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob100929how_did_we_g
While many believe the decline in the US record market is due to digital
technology, I believe it is in fact due to a series...
Harry Nilsson
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob100922harry_nilsson
Last Friday, the documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him) opened in LA at the Laemmle Sunset 5. For those...
The Uke
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ob/ob100915the_uke
Recently, I was walking in a crowded San Francisco farmers' market. While checking out the strawberries, I heard three female voices cut through the din...
