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Booking Your First Gigs + A FREE Webinar With Steve Rennie
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For any artist just starting out, the process of booking gigs can be both difficult and disheartening, but it's important to be proactive and stick with it. Industry veteran Steve Rennie offers 3 pro tips on how get your live music career off to a successful start and announces a free webinar. Guest post by Steve “Renman" Rennie, a music industry vet who runs online music biz mentoring platform Renman Music & Business and course Renman U. Join him for a free ...
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Universal Music Group Planning Virtual Reality Concerts
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While the majority of VR content has, up to now, been focused on games and films, UMG and iHeartMedia have major plans in the works to release several VR concerts in the coming year. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 There's no doubt that virtual reality will be a hot item this year, but so far most of the attention of VR content has been around games, and to a lesser extent, movies. Universal Music Group (UMG) believes that ...
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MyMusicTaste Raises $10M For Concert Crowdfunding Platform
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Startups are working to eliminate the distance between artists and fans. No where has that proven more difficult that in live concerts. MyMusicTaste approaches the issue by empowering fans to drive concert appearances. Seoul based MyMusicTaste has raised $10 million in a Seires A round led by Softbank Ventures Korea alongside Samsung Ventures, Formation 8, Golden Gate Ventures, Timewise Investment, Partners Investment, Bokwang Ventures and DT Capital. The startup offers an online platform that enables users to request, plan and promote concerts by their ...
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Facebook Set To Release Live Streaming Feature
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Facebook, in an effort to keep up with Periscope and Meerkat, will soon be bringing live streaming to all of its users, as opposed to just a select few major brands. This new feature could be a major asset for bands artists hoping to use live streaming a promotional tool. Guest Post by Bobby Owsinski on Music 3.0 A feature that many artists, bands and labels have been asking Facebook for is live streaming, and it looks like it's coming soon. This ...
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Songza To Shut Down Next Month, Features Transferred To Google Play Music
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Songza, which was acquired by Google in July of last year, will shut down as of January 31st. Its features and playlists will, however, still be available on Google Play Music. Songza is shutting down on January 31st. Its essential features and playlists will be available on Google Play Music, which acquired the popular music for your mood playlist service in July of 2014. The Songza team announced the move in the video below. Playlists created by the Songza Concierge have ...
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SF MusicTech Names 2015 Startup Innovators Challenge Winners
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SF Music Tech has named its 2015 Startup Innovators Challenge winners. Each will be showcasing when SF Music Tech convenes on November 10th. BTW, if you have not registered, do it right now. 2015 Startup Competition Winners Presented in Alphabetical Order Audiokite Music makers face tough questions. Which song on the album is the hit? What opportunities should we pitch? Does anyone even want to listen to this? Audiokite answers complex questions by surveying the people who matter most: actual music ...
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The Wide World Of Music Recognition Technology
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Although it's been around for almost twenty years, Automatic Content Recognition technology or ACR, has only really begun to hit its stride recently with apps like Shazam and SoundHound. These sorts of apps are just the beginning, however. Here we look at several other less well-known applications for ACR technology. Guest Post by Mathew D on The Global Outpost Most people are by now familiar with how the Shazam music service seems to magically identify the name of the song ...
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Universal Music Group's Abbey Roads Studios Launches Music Tech Incubator
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The Beatles have long since decamped, but their Abbey Road Studios is still very much alive. Last night the UMG owned company launched a new initiative focused on music technology and innovation at an event in the iconic Studio Two. Universal Music Group owned Abbey Road Studios has launched Abbey Road Red, a music tech incubator that it says is the only such program in Europe. Based in the building where such breakthroughs as stereo music were invented, Abbey Road ...
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