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News: Music Industry

Consider a Promotionless to Popular Strategy First

July 21, 2010

If there's anything that Bruce Warila is well-known for, it's smashing heads with conventional thinking and providing new insight into why artists do the things they do, and more specifically, why they shouldn't do others. In his latest contribution to Music Think Tank, Warila takes his shiny axe to the idea that artists should always be ...

News: Performance / Tour

GigMaven: Helping Musicians to Self Book Shows

July 21, 2010

GigMaven is a website that makes it easier for indie artists to book shows at venues. Utilizing analytics from The Next Big Sound, which pulls data from all over the Internet; it gives the venue useful insight into how well an artist is doing. The company has established relationships with music venues in major markets such ...

News: Technology

MOG Mobile Music App Introduced

July 21, 2010

On-demand digital music service MOG has announced that its mobile streaming music application is now available for download through Apple's App Store and on Android Market. The MOG mobile app is free to download and users can enjoy a three day trial. Full-access to the app costs 10$; its features include unlimited downloads, on-demand streaming, MOG ...

News: Technology

Fanbridge Introduces "FanRank" Feature

July 21, 2010

Direct-to-fan platform FanBridge has released a new feature called “FanRank." It is an automated fan list segmentation engine based on loyalty/engagement fans demonstrate across email, social networks, mobile, etc. This new, free feature has already been enabled in every FanBridge account and each week updates itself. Their goal with FanRank is to enable artists to better ...

News: Technology

Why audimated.com Paying Your Fans is a Bad Idea

July 21, 2010

Audimated.com is a new social media site for independent musicians and fans; they want to help artists make more money with their music, and give fans a financial incentive to promote the artists they support. What's wrong with this? For simple, straightforward tasks “if-then“ rewards, like financial incentives, work outstanding. Such would be the case ...

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News: Recording

Hiroe Sekine - A-me (2010)

July 21, 2010

By PicoEven as a small child growing up in Japan, jazz pianist Hiroe Sekine loved to pick out melodies she heard, such as the Japanese folk tunes emanating from her Mom's pedal organ. Today represents a culmination of that life long passion with the release of her debut album A-mé, which means “rain" in ...

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News: Music Industry

Yo Canada.

July 21, 2010

I've had a lively correspondence going with one of the blog stalwarts and pillar of decency, Stanley Zappa, about Canada, his adopted home. He tells me about how their art support system works and I give him background on how it ended up the way it is. He sent me some questions from some convened panel ...

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News: Event

New Music Seminar Recap, Part Two: Some Words of Advice from Martin Atkins

July 21, 2010

Martin Atkins is one of those people whose mode of communication is slightly more, um, vivid than most. He also offers incredibly helpful insights, both in his book, Tour:Smart, and his 18 minute presentation today pretty much stole the show. Excerpts below: (Literally) The First Thing He Said at the Start of His Presentation “You're ...

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News: Event

New Music Seminar Recap, Part One: The Ultimate Charts, and Fan Stats

July 21, 2010

This week's New Music Seminar has gotten off to a fast start, and there's a lot of stuff we need to catch you up on, so let's get right to it: The Ultimate Chart Hypebot reported this morning on the launch of Big Champagne's Ultimate Chart, a kind of Soundscan 2.0 that will paint a ...

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News: Interview

The Legacy of Bill Dixon (1925-2010) Part One

July 21, 2010

"Bill Dixon left us a lot of homework, and the job now is to sit down and do the work--because if you don't, when you see him again, Bill will kick your ass."--Stephen HaynesIn the month since trumpeter and improvising composer Bill Dixon passed away, some things have become abundantly clear. I've often found ...