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Major League Baseball Gets into the Music Festival Business
MLB Advanced Media, Major League Baseball's digital media division, has acquired worldwide distribution rights for a major music festival. The Global Citizen Festival, set for Manhattan's Central Park on September 28th, features a lineup that includes Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, Alicia Keys, and The Kings of Leon. MLB Advanced Media plans to stream the concert, which ...
Whole Foods Adds Vinyl but It's Not a Bubble Yet!
For folks concerned about a vinyl bubble, Whole Foods' addition of vinyl to a select group of stores is surely confirmation that the end times are nigh. Yet any serious bubble watcher knows this is likely just the beginning of a broader appreciation and monetization of vinyl that will go beyond vinyl sales alone. In Whole ...
Future of Music Coalition Announces 2013 Summit: Washington, DC, October 28-29
Future of Music Coalition is holding its annual gathering, the Future of Music Summit 2013, in Washington, DC in late October. Described as the “only conference that makes the connection between musicians and fans, policymakers and academics, legal experts and technologists, media professionals and entrepreneurs," Summit 2013 brings together a diverse group of speakers and attendees. ...
Don't Let Criticisms of Music Crowdfunding Stand in Your Way
Though a variety of people, some of them undoubtedly well-intentioned, have criticized music crowdfunding over the last few years, their criticisms generally fall flat. Ranging from namecalling to misrepresenting financial reality, such criticisms indicate objections that are fairly limited and fail to recognize crowdfunding's emergence as a legitimate approach to funding. One could simply reject all ...
Echo Nest Engineers Create MusicRadiator
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Music fans, by definition, listen to music. We don't always listen in the same way. Sometimes, we know just what we want to hear; sometimes we have a vague idea; and other times, we grow sick of what we already know, and maybe even feel a creeping sense of guilt ...
Radical.FM Launches Streaming Music Service in U.S. with iOS App
Radical.FM today launched an iOS app that apparently both introduces the full service to the U.S. but also represents a bit of a relaunch from last year's open beta. However the basic concept of web radio that one can fine-tune via genres or get more granular with song picks remains the same. Radical.FM also remains ad-free ...
Audio Apps Combining Music and Talk
By Dexter Blumenthal of Evolver.fm. It's up for debate whether hearing an audiobook is the same as reading, but nobody doubts that listening is a unique way to process not only music, but information. It frees up your eyes, for one thing, so you can drive, pedal, or run, in cases when carrying a book would ...
Ryan Leslie Goes Direct to Fans: Building Community, Bypassing iTunes
Musician and producer Ryan Leslie took a break from studio work to fill me in on his direct to fan approach that features personal communication and a private fan network. Building to the release of “Black Mozart" later this month, Leslie is combining web tools and mobile communication to bypass as many middlemen as possible while ...
5 Tips for Breaking Into Music for Film by Elliott Wheeler, Arranger for the Great Gatsby
By Elliott Wheeler (@elliott_wheeler), a screen composer, producer and cinematic indie-pop musician based in Sydney, Australia. He was the Arranger and Additional Music Producer on Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby. I'm often asked how one goes about getting into scoring for film and soundtrack work, particularly on a project the scale of Gatsby. The answer (and ...
Culture Coin: Creative Currency Competes in Business Unusual National Challenge
Alternative currencies can take many forms from Bitcoin to the credits given within gamified social networks to local exchange systems. One such system for exchanging arts-related labor and skills for similar skills or resources is the Culture Coin, a project of HowlRound currently competing in the Business Unusual National Challenge. Culture Coin is described (via @shadesofsolveig) ...
