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Notes from the Indie Label Front Lines
Some aspects of running an indie record label weren't changed by the web. Everybody used to work really hard and had to adjust to changing realities that were often quite harsh. But these days there's more of a sense that everything's up for grabs and that there is no one right way forward. I've been checking ...
Moogfest Returns in 2014 with New Music Tech Conference and 5 Days of Music
Moogfest is a music festival in Asheville, NC created by the folks at Moog Music. Sometimes referred to as an electronic music festival, Moogfest has included such towering figures as Morton Subotnick but also books acts like The Flaming Lips and Nas. Of course, Moog's creations have been used by many acts and Moogfest 2014 isn't ...
It Takes More Than Metrics to Understand a Musician's Audience
(UPDATED) In a new study by Microsoft researcher Nancy K. Baym, the author discusses musicians, music companies and their use of metrics. She interviewed a number of musicians and business people about their use of data gathering tools to identify and relate both online and offline audiences. The picture is as you might imagine with musicians ...
3 Critical Steps for Musicians to Build Fan Engagement
C. Vincent Plummer ( @cvpmusic ) is a Musician, Co-Founder, & Social Strategist for Bedloo. Over the years, I've sat at a lot of breakfast tables with local musicians recapping last night's gig. Usually the conversation starts about the nuts and bolts of the evening itself, but many times, the theme of the conversation moves towards ...
Tom Waits, Derek Trucks, Sinead O'Conner, Others to Record Kickstarter Funded Blind Willie Johnson Album
A Kickstarter to fund a tribute album to Blind Wille Johnson launched yesterday. Tom Waits, Sinead O'Connor, Lucinda Williams, Luther Dickinson, Cowboy Junkies, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi, Blind Boys of Alabama and Rickie Lee Jones have agreed to record songs for the project, which as of Wednesday morning had pledghes total $16,000 of a $125,000 goal. ...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Announces 2014 Nominees: Nirvana, Ronstadt, Gabriel and More
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2014 nominees. Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt and Peter Gabriel lead the list that also includes The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Meters, Chic and ten more. The complete list of 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Chic Deep Purple Peter ...
Complete Musician's Guide to Preparing for a Publicity Campaign
By David Roberts is founder of Nashville consultancy the Sunshine Promotion company. He blogs at “Sunshine Promotion“. I've touched on publicity briefly in other articles, but recently I had the chance to sit down with Laura Goldfarb over at about the ins and outs of a properly executed publicity campaign. Huge thanks to Laura for her ...
Berklee Online Adds First Bachelors Degrees in Music Production and Music Business
Berklee Online has long offered online courses in music, business and production. They even recently partnered with Southern New Hampshire University to offer an online music biz MBA. Now they're offering their first undergraduate degrees online, a Bachelor of Professional Studies with two areas of focus, Music Business and Music Production. Berklee Online's current online offerings ...
Why Musicians Make Little While Music Services and Distributors Make Billions [Jeff Price]
By Jeff Price, the founder of TuneCore and now founder/CEO of Audiam. In today's new music industry of peer-to-peer file sharing, download stores, and on-demand streams, it's hard enough for an artist to make money by selling their music. So what happens when the world's largest music distributors and stores carry all the songs in world ...
Got an Old iPhone? Create a Wireless Music System!
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Attention, Mac people who just bought or are about to receive a new iPhone. If your old iPhone is still fairly new, you don't have any kids yammering for an iPod Touch (that you want to give them), and you have no other reason to keep it, you should probably ...
