When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won (New York Times)

Steve Knopper?s stark accounting of the mistakes major record labels have made in the digital era suggests they are largely responsible for their own demise.

Latin indie label undergoes digital conversion (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Musicalatina.com, the only Latin-owned, Latin-centric U.S. digital download store, launched in December.

Call For Entries: OFF Festival seeks artists, illustrators, designers, typographers (Macworld UK)

OFFF Festival , the European festival for post-digital creative culture, invites creatives to submit artworks to be included in the catalogue for this year's event, which takes place in Lisbon, Portugal this May.

Calling all artists: Poster contest needs entries (Portales News-Tribune)

The Lesser Prairie Chicken Festival poster contest is back. Artists from kindergarten through adulthood are invited to create an original two-dimensional design for the contest, according to a press release from the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.

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The Nielsen Company released 2008 numbers based on its point-of-sale data collection operations by Nielsen SoundScan (music sales), Nielsen BDS (music performance) and Nielsen RingScan (ringtones), providing good and bad news for weary music biz execs working to shepherd their industry through the digital revolution.