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Switchcam Readies Impressive Video Toolkit for Musicians
Switchcam has come a long way since it won HackLolla as Veokami at Lollapalooza in 2011 including receiving over a million in funding. But the concept remains the same: Switchcam takes YouTube videos of concerts and offers multiangle views of the whole event where possible. Soon they'll be offering tools for musicians to take control of ...
A Whole New World: The Evolution of Mobile Music
When I got my first Walkman CD player, it completely changed the way I listened to music. I could listen to the songs I loved whenever I wanted, and it felt like they were being played for me personally. Mundane tasks suddenly became an excuse to listen to music. As a result, they went by faster ...
Want a Record Deal? Sign Yourself to Any and All Records
An important aspect to the Internet as a combination global media network and digital toolbox is that it's now much easier for artists to focus on being sole proprietors or collectives and to sign themselves. Yet some musicians will always feel insecure until legitimated by a third party. Any And All Records recently launched to help ...
For the First Time, Records of the Past Are Outselling New Ones
For the first time since Nielsen Soundscan began keeping track of album sales in 1991, old records have outsold new ones, with the first six months of 2012 seeing album sales of 76.6 million “catalog" records (albums released more than 18 months ago) compared to 73.9 million current albums. Topping the catalog sales charts are Guns ...
Henry Rollins Shares '4 Pillars' That Took Him from Ice Cream Scooper to Black Flag [video]
Henry Rollins went from college dropout to scooping ice cream at a Washington, D.C. area Häagen-Dazs to the lead singer of seminal punk band Black Flag, actor and more. But he does not believe it was creative genius that got him there. “I don't have talent," Rollins insists in a video interview. “I have tenacity. I ...
Advance Look at the Upcoming Bandwidth Conference
Next month in Portland, Oregon, the Bandwidth music and technology conference kicks off for its annual event discussing the evolving music space, bringing in top minds in the field from Sony Network Entertainment, Beatport, Warner Music Group, YouTube, and more. Closed discussion sessions revolve around how people discover, purchase, interact with, and are exposed to new ...
One Year Later: Why I Don't Love Spotify
Guest post by Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs. I've had Spotify for exactly one year. When I first started using Spotify, it sparked an emotion that I hadn't felt since I encountered Audiogalaxy, an early file sharing client, for the first time. I sought out all the music I could think of, amassing a library ...
Highlights from the Recording Academy's Independent's Day Conference
Last Saturday in Philadelphia, the local chapter of The Recording Academy held a one-day conference geared towards “entrepreneurship for the music-maker" appropriately named “Independent's Day." Panels consisted of representatives from a wide spectrum of the music industry music including Red Bull Records, CD Baby, SoundExchange, ReverbNation, BIM, and many more. Hypebot's Hisham Dahud was in attendance ...
A Look at Tomorrow's Independent's Day Music Conference in Philadelphia
Tomorrow in Philadelphia, the local chapter of the Recording Academy is sponsoring a one-day music conference called Independent's Day, focused on entrepreneurship for the music-maker. The event is broken up into several themed discussions focusing on the digital and business aspects of today's music industry, and we'll be there to give you the inside scoop. Speakers ...
Echo Nest Adds $17.3m from Norwest, Expands Api to Explore Music as Predictor of All Behavior
Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest, has closed a new $17.3 million financing round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Prior investors Matrix Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Fringe Partners, Jim Pallotta and board member Michael Brown also participated in this round. The Echo Nest says it will use the funds to support sales, international expansion and new ...
