Hey readers-
Happy New Year!!! Hope everyone had as good of a time as I did. I must say I was very pleased with my Steak and Shrimp Tepanyaki New Years dinner.

But straight to the chase-- this post I'm going to be discussing the implications of the Cellphone Industry on music. 2009 was a particularly big year for the smart phone industry-- which can only mean good things for the music industry as well.

The mobile industry is one of the first to introduce music bundling packages with preexisting service plans. Bundling is one thing youre going to hear me talking about again and again-- but I truly believe that bundling will be an integral part of any comprehensive solution to (re) monetize music in the future.

But before delving into the bundling aspect-- first I would like to substantiate how important the mobile industry has become to music revenues. Just take a look at these next few figures--

The obvious takeaway is that ringtones, and ringback tones have been a nice cash cow for the industry

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Welcome to IndieView where promising indie bands take us track by track through their new albums. For this go around we hear from Victor Bravo who tell us about their brand new album "Sky Full of Messages," which has been in heavy rotation here at antiMusic Central. Dan checks in first with his song "Kick You Out," followed by Colin who shares the song stories for the rest of the album:

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