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PledgeMusic Acquires Noisetrade, Set.fm
By expanding on the promise of the now all-but-defunct Topspin D2F platform with an added dash of Kickstarter, PledgeMusic has built one of the new music industry's most respected and effective platforms. Today they broadened their reach with two acquisitions that also serve the indie and DIY music community. PledgeMusic today announced two acquisition NoiseTrade and Set.fm. The ...
Pandora Launches AMPcast: Free Direct To Fan Audio Messaging
Direct to fan massaging seems to be the theme of the day. This morning, Bandsintown launched a free direct messaging tool. Now, Pandora has announced AMPcast, a mobile app that allows artists to send audio messages to their fans among the music service's 80 million active listeners. Pandora today announced AMPcast, a new tool to help artists ...
Are 15 Second Songs The Future Of Music? [Mark Mulligan]
As music messaging apps continue to grow in popularity, so too do the truncated versions of pop hits which accompany them, suggesting the traditional three minute song structure could soon be replaced by a somewhat briefer model. Guest Post by Mark Mulligan on his Music Industry Blog Music messaging apps have become something of a boom area in recent ...
Streaming Could End Piracy, If Only The Music Business Would Let It
While windowing releases may be an effective marketing ploy for high profile artists like Adele and Kanye, such tactics serve to drive listeners to piracy, in a time when the music industry should be embracing- and improving on- streaming instead. Guest Post by Bryce Clemmer, Co-founder and CEO of Vadio. In many ways, Kanye West’s release of ...
Guide To Being Your Own Music Publicist: Part 2 [Ariel Hyatt]
In part two of how to be your own music publicist, we look at how to research and determine which music blogs to target, set up an email management system, and properly prepare and organize promotional content in advance of your release. Guest Post by Ariel Hyatt on Cyber PR PART 2: YOUR MESSAGES AND YOUR TARGETS ...
Last Days Of Free SoundCloud? Allison Moore Hired As Chief Revenue Officer As Paid Launch Nears
SoundCloud has attracted millions of users—musicians and fans—with a seemingly unlimited treasure trove of tracks. But new deals with the major labels require monetization and recent filings point to a company bleeding cash at alarming rate. Now an experienced digital executive has been hired to sort out the mess. Music streaming service SoundCloud is pushing forward ...
Music Education Monday: A master class in improvisation with Gary Burton
Regarded as one of the most significant and versatile jazz musicians ever to play his chosen instrument, vibraphonist Gary Burton has been an important figure in improvised music since the early 1960s. Now 73 years old, Burton is a multiple Grammy award winner known for his innovative four-mallet technique, his pioneering albums fusing jazz with rock ...
Wexler's Blues Picks: 1950
I was doing some research recently for a project I'm working on and happened to read an article that Jerry Wexler wrote for the Saturday Review in June 1950. Wexler, who would become a partner in Atlantic Records in 1953 and emerge as one of the top R&B producers in the 1950s and '60s, had just ...
How Blockchain Could Transform The Music Industry - Part 2 [Benji Rogers]
The business of royalty collection and artist rights is in desperate need of an overhaul, one which blockchain tech's digital “wrapper" could potentially provide. Here Benji Rogers details what the implementation of this technology would look like and who it would benefit. Guest Post by Benji Rogers on Rethink Music A new “fair trade” music format ...
The Music Startup Meltdown - And it’s going to get worse before it gets any better…
After a strong year for music tech investments in 2015, things have gotten much tougher for music and music tech startups. The money tree is bearing less fruit and the sexiness of music startups has faded. But its going to get even worse before it gets any better, says Cortney Harding. By music industry and music tech consultant ...
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