Monday Morning Links: Bruce Springsteen Suplexes The Competition

noah | January 12, 2009 9:00 am

• Bruce Springsteen’s song from the Mickey Rourke-in-spandex pic The Wrestler nabbed the Golden Globe for Best Original Song last night. Goldust was unavailable for comment. [AP] • The title track from Melinda Doolittle’s Coming Back To You is available as a free download from her Web site. [MelindaDoolittle.com] • A dispatch from a Virgin Megastore going-out-of-business sale in California that an economist could have a field day with: “I hear good things about Steinski, a remix pioneer, and the new R.E.M. is supposed to be a return to form (and about time). For $5.70 each (rather than $18.99), why not? Those are 1975 prices.” [Daily Bulletin] • Warner Music Group is adding social-networking features to its artists’ sites. Because in the hallways of some major labels, it’s still 2001. [Reuters] • Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer “seemed all but ready to throw in the towel” on the Zune last week at the Consumer Electronics Show. Lots of people are using pictures of Zune tattoo guy to illustrate this news, but no one’s actually asked him for comment yet. Dude, are you out there? [FT] • Hey look, good news related to music writing: Country Weekly is actually going weekly (it used to publish every 14-ish days) and dropping its price by $1. [Press Release