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Gigswiz and the Human League Help Disrupt the Ticket Industry
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HypeBot
TicketMaster has long been unpopular with both music fans and many bands. GigsWiz' approach to building an alternative was to create a system that rewards artists for ticket sales resulting from their direct contacts with fans. Essentially an affiliate program, it encourages musicians to promote their own shows on social media. The band Human League recently encouraged the company to add another aspect to the program and allow bands to pass on their rewards as discounts on tickets. Paul Sawers ...
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Soundcloud Partners with MusicXray
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HypeBot
Soundcloud has partnered with music opportunity site MusicXray. Two new Music Xray apps have been added to the SoundCloud App Gallery. Both apps enable SoundCloud users to have songs matched opportunities like song placements on Music Xray without having to import their music. Music Xray users can also link their accounts to SoundCloud and have their music automatically ported over to SoundCloud. Music Xray averages about 1200 music industry professionals actively using the site to find new songs and talent ...
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Free Indie Musician Resources from Disc Makers and CD Baby
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HypeBot
If you're an indie musician who is not familiar with the free information resources provided by Disc Makers, I recommend that you check them out. Of course, since they are a company that provides CD and DVD production services and bought CD Baby a while back, their guides to recording, licensing, marketing and other aspects of indie biz almost always include a case for the continued relevance of CDs. Even if you disagree, their resources are still worth a look. ...
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Building a Community at musicianwages.com
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MusicianWages.com
Cameron and I started MusicianWages.com almost 3 years ago now. Over the years we've worked to make the site grow—adding a forum, curating guest posts, building the jobs board, making friends and writing our own articles. It's been really gratifying to see our audience grow, especially in the past year. Last month we broke our traffic records again with an incredible 60,000+ visitors to the site. For a niche blog like ours, that focuses on a very unique part of ...
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Universal Music Shuffle: 20 Motown Staffers Let Go, as 5 UMG Execs Get Promoted
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HypeBot
It took a scorecard to keep track of the personnel changes at Universal Motown today. Here's what we know so far, according to a variety of sources: About 20 staffers were let go today, mostly in back office in the legal, finance and digital departments. Former Motown chief Sylvia Rhone is still in serious negotiations to have her own UMG financed company. 5 UMG executives have been promoted including: Steve Gawley named EVP, business and legal Affairs for UMRG & ...
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Spotify Closes New $100 Million Funding Round, U.S. Launch Nears
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HypeBot
Spotify has closed another round of funding totalling $100 million based on a $1 billion valuation. (By comparison, Pandora's IPO this week valued the streaming music service at over $2 billion.) Spotify has been working on this deal for more than 6 months and in the end investors DST, Kleiner Perkins and Accel stepped up, according to Peter Kafka of AllThingsD. The timing could be further proof that insiders know that rising rumors of a July launch are true. “We're ...
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How Your Father Influenced the Music You Love [infographic]
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There are are many reasons why you listen to the music you do today. But for many, one of their influences was the music that their father played on the home stereo or maybe a concert Dad took them to. Perhaps you loved it, or maybe you swore to never listen to anything like it again. But either way, it had an effect. The folks at multi-room music system makers Sonos asked: What do dear old dad's listening habits say ...
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Petition Seeks Better Pay for Musicans at Jazz Festivals
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Michael Ricci
The Undead Jazzfest, now in its second year, will employ dozens of jazz musicians next week, in more than 50 sets, from Thursday through Sunday, in New York. But the terms of that employment have drawn criticism, according to a petition posted online. Available at winterundeadmusicians.wordpress.com, the petition—which addresses both the Undead Jazzfest and a longer-running partner event, the Winter Jazzfest—takes issue with the festivals' fee structure, calling on their promoters to meet with a Winter/Undead Festival Musicians Organizing Committee ...
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