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2 Music Tech Trends for 2013 I Should Not Have Left off My List
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When I shared my take on emerging music tech trends for 2013 I left out two of which I've since been reminded. One is that music tech companies serving artists will increase their partnerships and interconnections in order to remain competitive and provide more complete solutions. Two is that tech media will finally begin to consistently cover the full range of music tech companies rather than focusing primarily on streaming music companies. When I recently looked back at my 2012 ...
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Musicians' Tune-Up: Establish Your Web Presence with Authority
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To establish your web presence with authority, whatever aesthetic or commercial form that presence takes, requires a solid network with an official website, an active social network presence and passive markers back to one's website and social accounts. Whether or not you're feeling the energy of a New Year, now's a great time to tune up your web presence so you can move forward with authority. Bandzoogle CEO David Dufresne writes about the “hub and spokes" model for establishing one's ...
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Reality Checking Predictions: 5 Top Music Tech Trends for 2012
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HypeBot
Last year I made a number of predictions regarding top music tech trends for 2012. I focused on streaming music, augmented reality, ecommerce, hack days and the relationship of live performance to the web. Looking back I can see they were a mix of somewhat obvious themes and out of left field contenders with the best part being the surprises I would not have predicted. Reality Checking 5 Top Music Tech Trends For 2012 Prediction: Ubiquitous Streaming Music from the ...
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A D.I.Y. Artist's Successful $30 Download Experiment
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By Laurence Trifon, manager for indie electronic act Trifonic (@ltrifon). Will fans pay $30 for a digital download of a band's new album? In Trifonic's case, the answer is yes. A Unique Offer for Fans For the release of Trifonic's Ninth Wave album last month, we offered the typical assortment of direct-to-fan packages on our website: A standard digital download ($6), a physical CD ($11), and a few merch items like t-shirts and hoodies ($20-$50). As an experiment, we decided ...
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Exodus Cymbals Brings A New Bronze Beat To The Drum Industry
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JCM Media
Big Bear City, Calif., — Exodus Cymbals, a true innovator in the art of cymbal making, has developed a special method of manufacturing cymbals. This approach has resulted in strong growth of Exodus in the Latin America market and other markets. Now the company is in a good position to market its diverse line of cymbals in North America. A Unique Approach Exodus builds its hand-hammered Bronze cymbals in a very different way than other cymbal companies. What is unique ...
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Is Apple Preparing to Offer High-Resolution Music?
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. We've heard rumors that Apple would start selling high-resolution music — as in “better than CD quality" — for years, but so far, “lossless" has been as good as it gets, and the only way to get it in iTunes is to rip your own CDs. Evolver.fm has received word from legendary sound engineer Tony Faulkner that Apple is accepting high-resolution music files for iTunes, even if it is not selling them (yet?). To ...
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Groovebug's Blue Note is First Curated IOS Music Subscription App
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Yesterday, we reported on the first iOS app in iTunes that lets fans of the classic rock band Crosby, Stills, and Nash subscribe to the band for $4/month through an iPad app. The band calls this “the first" artist subscription app in iTunes, and we believe that to be the case. It's a fascinating idea, this notion of subscribing directly to a band, with the opportunity to get not just songs, but merchandise deals, exclusive photos and videos, and all ...
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Concert Window Creates Live Streaming Concert Network
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By Wren Leader of Evolver.fm. A couple Sundays ago, my girlfriend and I, Wren Leader, traveled to Berkeley, California to see one of my favorite bands, The Bobs, play at the Freight & Salvage, a coffeehouse music hall. These masters of comedic but heartfelt a cappella were in true form — world-class professional musicians combining the skill and talent of the most highly-trained Berklee College of Music graduates with the songwriting abilities of the best pop/rock composers (ed. note: The ...
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