Wolfgang's VaultVintage Concert Site Wolfgang's Vault Settles with LabelsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 27, 2008 - 10:04am.
Los Angeles - Wolfgang's Vault, a site that offers downloads of vintage concerts and other memorabilia once owned by legendary concert promoter Bill Graham, has reached a tentative settlement with rock bands Santana and the Doors, and a number of record labels that sued the site for copyright infringement, Billboard reports. Wolfgang's Vault Revives Crawdaddy Music Magazine OnlineAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on May 16, 2007 - 3:57pm.
San Francisco - Wolfgang's Vault, a site that sells vintage rock memorabilia and concert recordings, announced on Wednesday the online re-launch of Crawdaddy, the rock music criticism magazine founded in 1966 by Paul Williams. Williams will serve as an advisory editor for the online version, a new issue of which will be posted online every Wednesday. The online version will feature contributions from Williams, a music news blog, and profiles, features and interviews with both well-known and emerging artists ranging from the 60's through the present day. Wolfgang's Vault, King Biscuit Records to Sell Vintage Concert DownloadsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on April 24, 2007 - 3:46pm.
New York - King Biscuit Records, which controls the Bill Graham and "King Biscuit Flower Hour" archives of concert audio and video, announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Wolfgang's Vault, a site that offers vintage recordings and memorabilia from concert promoter Bill Graham's venues, to sell vintage concert recordings at ConcertVault.com. The offering comes at the same time that Wolfgang's Vault is embroiled in a lawsuit with Sony BMG and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, over the rights to some of the recordings it owns. At launch, the site will offer 52 live concert downloads, including performances by Iggy Pop, Humble Pie, Kansas, Steve Miller, The Alarm and Pat Benatar. The $9.98 full-length concerts will be delivered as 256K MP3 files. tags: Lawsuits | Music | DRM | Copyright | Wolfgang's Vault | King Biscuit Records | ConcertVault.com |
Bill Graham Concert Archive Site Countersues Record LabelsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on March 5, 2007 - 11:34am.
New York - The owner of a website that streams vintage rock concerts and sells rock memorabilia collected by legendary concert promoter Bill Graham has filed a countersuit against the musicians and two major record labels who sued him for copyright infringement, according to The Hollywood Reporter. tags: Lawsuits | Music | Sony BMG | Copyright | Warner Music | Wolfgang's Vault | Bill Graham | Bill Sagan |
Rock Icons Sue Website Operator Over Streaming Concerts, Memorabilia SalesAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on December 19, 2006 - 6:04am.
San Francisco - A group of rock icons -- including Carlos Santana and members of the Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin and The Doors -- have sued the operator of a website for distributing allegedly unauthorized vintage recordings and memorabilia originally collected by legendary Bay Area concert promoter Bill Graham.
tags: Law | Lawsuits | Music | Artists | Commerce | Wolfgang's Vault | Grateful Dead | Bill Graham | Santana |
Wolfgang's Vault Offering Free Streams of Vintage Bill Graham ConcertsAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on February 13, 2006 - 10:41am.
Nashville - A 75-song playlist of live performances, recorded at San Francisco's Fillmore and other venues by the late promoter Bill Graham, has been made available for free streaming online, Billboard reported on Monday. The 128kbps vintage recordings, from artists including Bob Dylan, Santana and Jefferson Airplane, are available from Wolfgang's Vault, a site set up by entrepreneur Bill Sagan -- who purchased a treasure trove of nearly 8,000 audio and video recordings for $5 million following Graham's death in 1991. Sagan is also looking to release CDs and DVDs of Bill Graham Presents concerts by the end of the year.
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