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The New Live Music Experience: Tech, Bands and Fans
Guest post by Casandra Govor (@casandragovor) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. In 2005, live was considered the golden goose of the music sector, all hopes were invested in the small venues and festivals, while pundits and executives preached it to be the future; the alternative to the sinking and piracy-ridden recording industry. By 2010, hopes ...
Band Interview Tips: How to Make the Most out of Your Interview
If you do a scan online, you can find many articles about how to interview a band and what kinds of questions to ask a band, but there aren’t many things about what bands can do to prepare for and leverage an interview. I’ve done a fair share of them, both as the interviewer and the ...
Agile Marketing for DIY Musicians
By Musician and Marketing Consultant Solveig Whittle (@shadesofsolveig). Agile Marketing is a term that takes its inspiration from , a methodology “defined" in 2001 by a group of programmers in order to apply a set of alternative (and hopefully more productive) values to traditional software development. Many software development projects large and small had, by this ...
15 Top Tips for Successful Music Crowdfunding and Fan Funding Campaigns
Lots of people are sharing their tips and advice on crowdfunding and fan funding campaigns in areas from music to just about every fundable topic one can imagine. I took five different tips articles, including some not focused on music, and pulled out excellent tips of relevance to musicians. In some cases they address issues not ...
College Students Pivot T-Shirt Biz into WOMP Music Discovery App
By Alex Silverman of Evolver.fm. A year in open development, music discovery site WOMP.in is the brainchild of Jason Wimp, Michal Krupa and Neil Mallinar — three college students still earning their undergraduate degrees from Indiana University, University of Illinois: Urbana Champaign, and John Hopkins respectively. WOMP, set for its official launch this March, emerged from ...
5 Email Marketing Rules from Six-Figure Musician
David Hooper recently released “Six-Figure Musician," a book that says it will tell you “How to Sell More Music, Get More People to Your Shows, and Make More Money in the Music Business." I've been checking out the free PDF version and pulled out a group of rules for email marketing that all musicians should know. ...
From Critics' Words to the Visual Music Review
By freelance music writer Tyler Hayes (@thealbumproject). We're like the classic moth drawn to a flame. As humans we have a hard time resisting a new album review. We have to know whether a publication liked the music or not, whether they think the band has now gone too far away from their roots. We're fickle ...
CBS Email to Grammy Peformers: "Avoid Exposing Bare Fleshy Under Curves of the Buttocks"
(UPDATED) Every year CBS' Standard And Practice group issues a warning to Grammy performers and presenters dubbed affectionately, the 'Wardrobe Advisory', and almost every year some performer intentionally or via a “malfunction" falls well beyond (or below) CBS' stated decency standards. This year, CBS and The Grammy's decided to get specific with warnings that include: “Thong ...
Pandora Shares Impressive January Audience Stats
Pandora just shared monthly metrics for January 2013. Listener hours for the month hit an impressive 1.39 billion, an increase of 47% from 952 million during the same period last year. Pandora's share of total U.S. radio listening is now at 8.03%, an increase from 5.55% at last year. Active listeners were 65.6 million at the ...
Apple is Building a Social Music Network
Guest post by Matt Kiser (@Matt_Kiser) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. There's a lot of talk about how Apple is building a whiz-bang, streaming Internet radio app to kill Pandora. In 2013, Internet radio seems really shortsighted for Apple. It can't possibly be the only thing they're up to in the music ...
