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Music Crowdfunding: GWAR Restaurant, Miles Davis Movie, Wearhaus Arc Headsets
Music crowdfunding campaigns of note include a new campaign from GWAR for a GWAR-themed restaurant featuring such delights as GWAR-B-Q. Don Cheadle is also leading a new campaign for a film about an episode in the life of Miles Davis that he will direct. Plus there's great news from Wearhaus whose $75,000 crowdfunding campaign for Wearhaus ...
9 Tactics for Building and Keeping Your Band's Twitter Following
By Patrick Hertz of Tinderbox for the Sonicbids Blog. As you (hopefully) know by now, Twitter is one of the best online marketing tools you can have in your band’s toolbox. It’s a free and simple way to communicate directly with your fans, but you’ve got to be strategic about when and how you use it to ...
Is Digital Payola Involved in Music Discovery and Recommendation?
By Taylor Lambert and Kevin Erickson for Future of Music Coalition. In the age of on-demand streaming, it’s common to hear people talk about music as “limitless”— something that flows forth endlessly like water. Indeed, musicians around the world release a huge volume of new music every day. But in practice, most consumers’ exposure to the ...
Lively Runs Out of Money, Suddenly Shuts Down
In January I was writing about Lively's $2 million round of investments bringing their total funding to $2.65 million. Yesterday GeekWire revealed that Lively had suddenly shut down and laid off almost 22 employees because they “just ran out of time." In this case time really does equal money. Lively couldn't raise more funding for their ...
Timeline for Submitting to the Grammys [2014-2015]
The first round of GRAMMY Award submissions opens in July followed by an array of Recording Academy deadlines. To cut through the confusion, here if the official timeline for submitting to the 2014-2015 Grammys. Overview: The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast (CBS) will be held on Sunday, February 8, 2015. Eligibility Period is for recordings commercially released ...
5 Tips for Building a Fanbase Online
Ross Barber spoke with Killed The Fixtion's Rigo Asencio about growing a fanbase online. Having not played a live show since 2010, Killed The Fixtion have continued to release music and literally built their fanbase online rather than in tandem with live encounters. Barber says he's “impressed by the personal approach the band has taken to ...
An Introduction to Bitcoin for Indie Musicians
By James Shotwell, Social Media Coordinator of the media distribution service Haulix. Cryptocurrency is a hot topic right now, and there is not a doubt in our minds that it will be a big focus of independent musicians in the years to come. If you have any questions about the content of the blog, or if you ...
Amazon Prime Music is Here and It Underwhelms, but Not in a Bad Way
Amazon's new Prime Music is here, a streaming service that's “free" to Amazon Prime subscribers only. If you're wondering if Spotify users will switch over then you're on the wrong track. Having watched Amazon grow what's now called Amazon Prime Video I know that what we're seeing today is just the beginning and that Amazon's focus ...
U.S. Music Publishing Worth $4.5 Billion Yearly, 50% Lost to Outdated Regulations Says NMPA
U.S. music publishing earned $2.2 billion in total revenue in 2013 across all income sources. However, according to a new National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) survey, roughly $2.3 billion more is lost every year due to outdated copyright law and government regulations. Thanks to recent changes in the way data is collected, the NMPA can now ...
Concert Discovery Space Heats up with New Startups and Established Ticketing Companies
Up until this year it looked like one or more startup mobile apps related to music concert discovery such as WillCall and Jukely were going to gradually build out the concert discovery space city by city. While that work continues new entries are to be expected. But not only are nightlife and event apps entering the ...
