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If Everything in Music Has Changed, Will That Change You?
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We All Make Music
Earlier today, Digital Music News's Paul Resnikoff posted an alarming quote from an interview with famed film director Francis Ford Coppola.
You have to remember that it's only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. Artists had a patron, either the leader of the state or the duke of Weimar or somewhere, or the church, the pope. Or they had ...
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Buzzdeck - Social Analytics for Bands and Managers
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HypeBot
BuzzDeck is a music analytics tool developed by AWAL, a London-based music distributor. It's been floating around for a couple months now. The service enables artists and their managers to track everything from their Twitter followers to who is watching their videos online. All of this info is pulled into a dashboard wherein the activity across networks can be compared and contrasted. Sixteen-year-old ukulele player, Misty Miller, has found using the service fascinating. It shows she has gained fans all ...
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Record Label Rule Book Gets Startups No Where
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HypeBot
We're learning something important about music startups. If a company is cool and people like it, there's a good chance that they're either getting sued or working their way up the magical list. Grooveshark is a perfect example of this. More and more people are getting turned onto the site because the interface is pretty and the user experience is great. Is it the best music service? No. But it's the best at what it does.1 Then there's Sony's Music Unlimited ...
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The Neolin: Incomparable Electro-Acoustic Violin Choice for Jazz, Hip-Hop, Rock, Pop Musicians
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Jona Rapoport Artist Management/PR
Bodo Vosshenrich, a master violin maker in France, creates distinct instruments for today's musicians. He dares a novel electro-acoustic approach to the violin, destined for the new generation of musicians who play popular, improvised and amplified music (Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, Jazz, Electro...). They now have their own voice: the Neolin!
Owners of the Neolin include renowned UK jazz violinist Chris Garrick; Didier Lockwood, Mani Neumann (Farfarello) and others.
Find it in the US at Blaise Kielar's Electric Violin Shop, and ...
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Worth the Gamble? Rdio Lands the Latest Round...
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Digital Music News
Rdio's got that shine that attracts investors, but is this a horse that'll still be trotting in five years? Well, the guys at Mangrove Capital Partners think so. The Luxembourg-based VCs are the latest to plunk down on Rdio, according to details confirmed by partner publication paidContent. The tip-off was an off-the-cuff tweet by Mangrove cofounder and managing partner Mark Tluszcz. But Mangrove isn't disclosing the amount.
Actually, the tweet was sent to MC Hammer, himself a digitally-savvy fellow. “@MCHammer ...
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Why Creating a Perfect Digital Music Service is Really, Really Hard
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We All Make Music
If you've ever wondered why these dadgum deals involving cloud music or Spotify or eMusic or whoever seem to take forever, well, this will be of great interest to you. At MIDEM this week, Music Ally put on something called a Music Licensing Crash Test, in which a fictional digital music service tries to launch. Real life actors, including the head of digital at Domino Records, the Executive Vice President of ...
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You Have to Network, but You Can't Engage in "Networking"
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We All Make Music
If “networking" seems unnatural, it might be because you're doing it for the wrong reasons. The other day, How to Run a Band's Seth Jackson ran an interview with Whiskey Tango about getting their music featured in a film. At the very bottom, Jackson posted a brief (but true) takeaway: they networked with friends that happened to be in the film biz. So making friends seems to be the way to go in order really grow your band. That stirred ...
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Indies: They Suddenly Have a Major Problem...
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Digital Music News
Indies typically have far less resources than major labels, but far better artist-to-fan bonds. A Katy Perry fan will be gone tomorrow, generally speaking, while a Belle & Sebastian fan will stick around. And that, more than anything, has offered indies some insulation from the avalanche being suffered by the majors.
In previous years at Midem, we actually bumped into indies having great years. But this year, a number were saying something different. Specifically, that good fan engagement seems to ...
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