Archive For June, 2010
CCC cancels HMV Japan buyout deal
Tokyo-based Culture Convenience Club (CCC), operator of music and video retail/rental chain Tsutaya, said June 30 that it has abandoned its plan to buy HMV Japan.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010Read more
Syn, Hennessy explore mixology
Tokyo-based music agency Syn is mixing it up with Hennessy.
Thursday, June 10, 2010Read more
HMV Japan to close Shibuya store
In a sign of Japan’s rapidly declining physical-music market, HMV Japan will shut its flagship store in Tokyo's Shibuya district in August.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010Read more
Music Matters 2010 -- the wrap
Now that the last of the Lan Kwai Fong-induced hangovers have faded away, it’s time to take a dispassionate and indeed sober look at the fifth annual edition of music-biz confab Music Matters, which wrapped up on the evening of May 28 in Hong Kong with a series of live shows in LKF-district bars whose raucously bibulous atmosphere suggested a cross between Sodom and Gomorrah and the Gotterdammerung.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010Read more
