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Pandora Joins Google Play Music, Musixmatch and Youtube on Google Glass
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HypeBot
Remember when Google Glass was a thing? At least to us media people? As Google Glass has gone from hard to get to available if you can afford it, it's mostly dropped out of music-related news. But yesterday Pandora launched a Google Glass app aka “Glassware" bringing the incredibly popular web radio service to Glass users. Pandora announced Pandora for Glass yesterday on their blog. Here's a mockup of what the app shows: Pandora for Glass was created at a ...
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Musician's Guide to Tech Skills: Website Analytics
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HypeBot
By Michael Brandvold of Michael Brandvold Marketing. I posted a video that talked about how today you need to have tech skills to succeed. The video didn’t go into much detail on what specific tech skills you should have, so I thought I would list them for you. By all means I am not saying you need to be a master at these skills, you need to be a master at your music. But, having some basic understanding of these ...
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Wordpress for Musicians: Why I Recommend Managed Hosting
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HypeBot
There are a variety of solid options for hosting a music website including many tailored to musicians' needs. Wordpress is a popular solution, in part, because so many themes and tools in the form of plugins are available for musicians. If you've decided to go with what could be called a self-hosted Wordpress.org install rather than with Wordpress.com, you now have the option of managed hosting for your Wordpress site. Based on my experiences of the last few years, I ...
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Knoxville's Mediaworks Demo Day to Include 4 Music Tech Startups
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MediaWorks is a new digital media accelerator emphasizing education and mentorship. It's a program of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) and next week they're holding a demo day for the participants including no less than four startups related to audio and music. The program was led by Nashville's Back Porch Group likely with plenty of input from KEC Entrepreneur in Residence Jonathan Sexton as well as guests. If it takes a village, these startups have gotten off to a good ...
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Open Labs Releases Stagelight 2.0, Downloads Near 1 Million, Dell and Lenovo Preload Deals
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Yesterday Open Labs released Stagelight 2.0, their music creation app for Windows that costs $9.99. It comes with a variety of new features, including an in-app store, and will also be preloaded on hardware from Lenovo and Dell. Additional distributions agreements have been made with Intel, Microsoft and Guitar Center. A solid step forward for Stagelight with the additional news that, according to CEO Cliff Mountain, they're close to a million downloads of the full app. Stagelight 2.0 is a ...
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Blue Note Records Launches New Blue Note 75 App For iPad
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Michael Ricci
Blue Note Records proudly presents the Blue Note 75 app – a ground-breaking new app available exclusively for iPad that celebrates the 75th Anniversary of the legendary jazz label which has represented The Finest In Jazz Since 1939. Now available exclusively on the App Store, the app presents a new digital format – developed in partnership with the London-based digital music and creative technology agency playDEF music – which allows users to play owned Blue Note music in-app or directly ...
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Musicplay Analytics and LuckyPennie Join the Brandery Accelerator's New Class
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Cinncinnati's The Brandery is considered one of the top tech startup accelerators. They help startups in the early stages to further develop and seek funding. The Brandery just took in a new batch of startups including two in the music tech space. LuckyPennie combines music and event discovery with social elements in an interesting mix. MusicPlay Analytics wants to track music played in business so that licensing fees can be distributed to the actual musicians whose music is played. The ...
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Rap Genius Adds $40 Million, Expands Beyond Rap
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Its been a rocky and controversial few months for Rap Genius, but persistence appears to have paid off. The platform, which launched as a repository of information about rap music, has added $40 million in Series B funding led by Dan Gilbert and Andreesen Horowitz. With the cash influx, the sight will re-brand a Genius.com and move beyond rap. The new funding brings the company's total to $55.6 million at a valuation under $1 billion. Over the last year, Rap Genius has ...
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