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RBC Records Owner: Social Media is Key to Building an Artist's Career
Brian Shafton, owner of RBC Records, has been deeply involved with both hip hop artist and label marketing and distribution. Both running a label and supporting artist-owned indie labels gives Shafton a full view of not only what it takes to break an artist but to maintain a career. In a recent interview, Shafton repeatedly noted ...
Songcoin: An Alternative Currency for the Real Life World of Music?
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. The music business is about to get its own alternative currency, called Songcoin. The alternative currency phenomenon is real, as weird as that might feel to those of us who would never consider shelling out cash for points to buy special pixels for that Farmville game we never really got ...
Global Digital Music Market to Grow to $9 Billion in 2014, Says New Study
The digital music market grew 9% in ' 12 and will grow to $9 billion worldwide in 2014. It's driven by expansion in international and regional music brands and 20%+ smartphone growth in South East Asia, India and Africa. The study, by Mahindra Comviva and Ovum Consulting, predicts that Asia-Pacific digital music markets will approach $450 million and Latin America will top $200 million in 2014. Lean Back vs. Lean ...
Top 5 Tips to up Your Google+ Game
Who am I kidding? I don't have a Google+ game to up. I'm just trying to maintain enough of a presence to reap some SEO benefits from Google Search. But others seem to be diving in and even apparently having good experiences. Maybe if you knew a few of the 15 “awesome Google+ tricks" Melanie Pinola ...
Music, Mind and Meaning - The Case for the Science of Music
By Diana Hereld of Pathways in Music. Photos by Will Kirk. Recently, at the Music, Mind and Meaning conference at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, one reception conversation was the ever-laden research debate between performers, theorists and scientists. While many consider it their duty as scientists to push the cognitive and neurological ...
Indie Musicians on the Rewards vs. the Challenges of Building Independently
Electric Kiwi's Ross Barber recently kicked off a blog post series called #GoIndie in which he gathers insights from indie musicians. When asked about the “advantages and benefits" as well as the “challenges" of going indie, these musicians' answers covered a lot of ground but might be summed up by saying that creative freedom requires business ...
DIY Voice Acting for Musicians
By Carrington MacDuffie (@carringtonmacd), an Americana singer/songwriter who also has an extensive career in voice over. Her new album is “Only An Angel“. I came to voice acting through being a singer/songwriter. I was dealing with what they call writer’s block, when some good opportunities for making a living with spoken word presented themselves, so I ...
Suzanne Vega on Taking Charge of Her Own Career and Starting Her Own Label
Suzanne Vega is an industry lifer who experienced the age of major labels before the suits took over and then got dropped after they did. But she went on to start her own label to self-release her albums and remains committed to a long-term career. This week Vega released “Tales From the Realm of the Queen ...
Why Soundcloud Will Beat Other Streaming Music Services
By Dan Polaske an entrepreneur & blogger. Check out his artists interview series coming soon. Who is the current leader in the streaming service war? Not Spotify. Not Rdio. Not Deezer. Not Beats Music (just launched) The answer: YouTube! Ok so YouTube is not technically a streaming service, however more music is streamed on YouTube than ...
Digital Performance Royalties for Older Songs Considered by Tennessee Legislature
Musicians of all genres today are building on the legacy of earlier songwriters. But digital performance royalties are not paid to artists for music recorded before 1972. Two Tennessee legislators from opposing parties are trying to address this bizarre situation and have introduced legislation in Tennessee. Such state legislation may help push things forward on a ...
