Will mobile phones overtake the iPod?

“Will the mobile phone take over from the iPod”. This was the question discussed by a panel session at In The City, which featured Steve Mayall (mobile music analyst, MusicAlly), Andy Baker (CEO, DX3), Susie Hinchliffe (Head of Content, Filter), Leigh Turnbull (Senior Publicist, WayToBlue) and Danny Van Emden (digital media director, EMI Music). Recent research commissioned by MonsterMob revealed that that there are 935m internet users, but 2 billion

Cohen: Wireless future for music

Ted Cohen (Senoir Vice President, Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Music, USA) said the future for mobile future would be wireless. “Having the ability to access music anywhere is future. Sony Stream Man service streams music to your handset. There#039s software now which can stream my hardrive over the Net to my handset. Filter, which did a Bluecasting promotion, was great. That’s wireless.”

TrueTones attacked by mobile agency

Nick Early, CEO of DMX3.net attacked Truetone “soundalikes” at In The City, saying “It is absolutely right that artists should get paid for their work. He said Truetone’s are ‘polluting’ the digital music industry. “Sure the publisher of the soundalike gets paid, but the artist of the original track doesn’t,” he said. Early contends that Realtones actually put money back into the business of finding more artists. A cover version

Digital no pushover as as indie band looks to labels

Up and coming Scottish band Opal Sky says they are looking for a new label, despite doing their best in the digital world. Band spokesman “Tony” said although the band had pushed itself well online, it was still looking for the expertise of a label to give market and distribute the band, which has been compared to Maroon 5 fronted by Aretha Franklin singing Jeff Buckley. Apparently.

The first REAL find of ITC 05

MusicBites isn’t in the business of doing the A&R people’s job for them. We’re interested in the business. However. It is very hard to deny the unbelievable raw talent of Katie Forrester, who tore up an underground venue last night with both trad standards and edgy new street vocals. Together with rap act Mayhem Crew, Katie was, in a word, fantastic.We’re no experts. But we’d sign her. Like, er… now?