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4 Services That Help Bands Make Money Online

Source: HypeBot
October 28, 2010

Mashable writer Brenna Ehrlich has done a great job at outlining four services that can help unsigned bands make money online. Each of them have been profiled on Hypebot in the past. However, she has given a much more in-depth look at how these services work and who they have been working for. From music licensing to online collaboration to becoming sponsored on a torrent site, these are all real ways that bands can make money online without the help ...

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Always-On: How Technology is Biased Against Time

Source: HypeBot
October 27, 2010

In the past, when you called someone and the person was not home, a voicemail greeted you. It said that they must be away from the house and will call you when they returned. Then, cell phones came along. When that person was not home and did not answer their cell phone, the message changed. Now that person apologized for being away from their phone and said they would call you when they returned to it. As time went on, ...

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6 Reasons Not to Quit Myspace

Source: HypeBot
October 27, 2010

Yesterday, my Hypebot collegue Kyle Bylin celebrated the first anniversary of Andrew Dubber's Quit MySpace Day, even offering instructions for quitting. Blogger Steve Lawson agreed: ..."it's become almost exclusively the domain of spammers and blanket marketeers—musicians shouting at other musicians about gigs by bad bands on the wrong side of the world."  Dubber even updated his call: “MySpace is not simply irrelevant, it's utterly poisonous."  They're all right.  MySpace is a mess on many levels, but I still believe that every artist ...

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The Sony Cassette Walkman: 1979-2010

Source: Digital Music News
October 26, 2010

Sure, the iPod is declining. But the real granddaddy of them all—the cassette Walkman—is quietly stepping into oblivion. Some 200 million* players later, Sony is putting a legend to bed. The Walkman brand now moves forward with newer technologies like Sony Ericsson phones and even Discmans, though vintage nostalgia can strike at any time.

By 1999, Sony had managed to sell 186 million cassette players, according to stats supplied by the company. But the cassette was quickly getting eclipsed by ...

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Cassette Walkman Departs on iPod Anniversary

Source: HypeBot
October 26, 2010

Sony decided to phase out the cassette Walkman. Like you, I had not realized that they still made them. To most, it represented the first personal music experience they had. The whole concept of music being the soundtrack to your life spawned out of the cassette Walkman. Sound exploded within environments that had previously been silent and the bustling noise of the city faded into the background of your favorite song. With it, music gained an element of serendipity. A ...

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Google Introduces Music Search in India

Source: HypeBot
October 26, 2010

Millions of users in India search for their favorite Bollywood music in Google. To make the process easier, Google introduced a music search tool. Users can find the latest Hindi songs, restrict their search to the 1980s, listen to songs by particular artists and stream all of the songs associated with a designated movie. With a single click, the selected song plays, making it so more time is spent enjoying music rather than searching for it. This initiative may provide ...

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Eliot Van Buskirk Starts Blog About Music Apps

Source: HypeBot
October 22, 2010

Since leaving his post at Wired, Eliot Van Buskirk has started a new blog. It is called Evolver.fm and as a part of his involvement with The Echo Nest, he will be writing daily about the developments in the world of music apps. From his perspective, apps are the future of music. Following the MP3, he considers them the next major development in the digital music revolution. His publication, he writes, will feature “news, analysis, and other articles related to ...

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How to Post a Perfect Press Kit on Your Website

Source: HypeBot
October 22, 2010

Even with social media like Facebook and Twitter, artists still need the basics—the Press Kit. A press kit is a package of promotional items that can be shared with journalists and new media makers. On Music Think Tank, Ariel Hyatt has posted tips on what to include in your press kit so that editors can find your information quickly and easily. Some things that you should include are: your music, biography, and photos.   “Editors need access to your information ...

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