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Music Crowdfunding Without a Fanbase
Ian Anderson and Levi James created Launch and Release to document and share what they were learning about crowdfunding music. They've put in a great deal of work and one of the more interesting discoveries they've made is that numerous artists are successfully crowdfunding in the under $10,000 range without the fanbase that one might assume ...
How I Listen: Future of Music Coalition's Kristin Thomson
In our new series, How I Listen, we're asking industry leaders and artists to share how they discover and consume music. This edition features Kristin Thomson, Co-Director, Future of Music Coalition's Artist Revenue Streams Project. 1) What device(s) do you use to listen to music? At home: We have a three-zone Sonos system, including one in ...
'Back to Vinyl: The Office Turntable' Merges Analogue and Digital, Wins Cannes Lions Gold
Last week, at Cannes Lions Festival, Diddy pitched Revolt TV and Damian Kulash went in search of sponsors. But a huge part of the marketing and advertising Festival involves awards, one of which went to a unique project designed to take vinyl cool and create a hybrid analogue/digital marketing campaign for Germany's Kontor Records. Cannes Lions ...
Tom Silverman's A2iM Lifetime Achievement Award Speech
Full text of the A2iM Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech by Tom Silverman, music industry thought leader and founder of Tommy Boy Records and the New Music Seminar. Lifetime Achievement Award? Lifetime seems so final. After working for 9 months on the NMS finishing last Tuesday, the Sound Exchange board meeting last Thursday, the Merlin board ...
Controlling Your Music Via WI-Fi and Movement Without a Motion Sensor
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. We are fascinated with new ways to control our tunes, because smartphones get in the way of music apps. We've already been mightily impressed by the way Leap Motion's neat little cameras can let music fans control Spotify by waving their hands around in front of their computers, and also ...
The Definitive Survival Guide for Band and Musician Photo Shoots
By Russ Robinson ofTampa Band Photos. a commercial music photographer. He does shoots all over the US, and offers photo advice for musicians on his blog and Twitter. For many people, being in front of a camera yields roughly the same amount of enjoyment as getting a root canal. It can be an awkward, stressful thing ...
Building a Music Collection in the Digital Age
By Aarti Kelapure of Evolver.fm. Recently, my editor lamented the challenge of collecting music when we find and listen to it from so many different sources. Without a one-size-fits-all solution, we end up forgetting some of the music we've stumbled upon across services. Other times, we come across something we don't have time to listen to, ...
Top 7 Reasons Every Musician Should Blog from Ariel Hyatt's New Book "Cyber PR for Musicians"
Early this year music marketer and educator Ariel Hyatt successfully completed an ambitious crowdfunding campaign whose goals included the creation of three new books and a social media course. While funders are already enjoying the fruits of Hyatt's labor, she is today releasing the first book to the general public titled “Cyber PR For Musicians." It's ...
Millennials Use Mobile Music Apps More Often Than Any Other Age Group
Wes Davenport is a music marketer, blogger, and publicist based in Nashville, TN. He writes about ways modern musicians can thrive at wesdavenport.com. Follow him on Twitter @wesdavenport for more music industry insights. How much time do iOS users spend in different kinds of apps? Flurry, a mobile app analytics company, released a that reveals how ...
Major Chinese Music Sites Shift from Free
Several of China's major online music websites have shifted from free, to a fee-based model for music downloads. According to Chinese news service Sina, major labels including Universal, Sony, and Warner Music pressured Chinese music sites, including Baidu Music, Cool Music, and Xiami.com to shift to a pay model with a deadline of June 5th. Kugou.comm ...
