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Former Orchard CEO Greg Scholl Returns to Music as Exec. Director Jazz at Lincoln Center
Greg Scholl, the former CEO of digital music powerhouse The Orchard, is returning to the music industry as the Executive Director of Jazz At Lincoln Center. Working alongside Founder and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Scholl will take the helm of the not-for-profit arts organization next month. After leaving The Orchard in September 2009, Scholl became President, ...
10 Promotional Strategies for Indie Musicians
Disc Makers recently released 10 Effective Strategies to Get Your Music Noticed by Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan authors of The Indie Band Survival Guide. It's a nice free guide that actually shares more tactics than strategies for getting your music noticed and building your fanbase. But let's not quibble over such details when there's good ...
Musicians: Stop Building an Email List
Guest post by Chris Rockett of Music Marketing Classroom. I know the title of this post may seem a little bit weird considering I have been banging on about fan capture for the past guzumteen years, but hear me out... Something was buzzing around my head this morning that I probably stole from somewhere but let's ...
Tedeschi-Trucks, Tab Benoit Top Blues Music Awards
The big winners at the 33rd Blues Music Awards were Tab Benoit and the Tedeschi-Trucks Band. Tab took home 3 awards and Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks combined for 5. Benoit took top honors in Contemporary Male Artist and Album and B.B. King Entertainer of the Year. The Tedeschi Trucks Band took Band and Album of ...
MobBase Adds Free HTML5 App Creator for Bands, is This Tunecore for Apps?
Hype aside, apps really can be a fine way for artists to “connect with their fans," as overused as that expression might be. MobBase debuted another interesting entry in the budding market for helping bands build apps — a trend that at the very least gives them a new way to promote themselves to their fans, ...
Music Industry Fail: This Time It's Personal.
The big mistake that the industry continues to make is that too many are thinking of music in terms of social engagement, when it is actually a deeply personal experience. The huge success of Amanda Palmers Kickstarter campaign, which has so far raised over half a million dollars, exemplifies this point. People are willing to shell ...
Gumroad's 19 Year Old Founder Raises $8.1 Million for Music Ecommerce
Gumroad wants to empower musicians, in fact everyone, to “sell" as easily as they “share"; and so far its 19 year old founder has raised $8.1 million to make his goal a reality. After angel funding og $1.1 million in February, Sahil Lavingia - already an ex-member of the Pinterest team - just landed another $7 ...
Not All Musicians Are Entrepreneurs, but Successful and Professional Ones Are
Most of my days are spent working on the business and communications end of the music and technology industries. Because of my immersion in these areas I tend to read and absorb many ideas, concepts, and philosophies. They are all mainly related to doing business in a global ecosystem based around innovation and constant iteration as ...
Musicians: Test New Equipment and Get Paid $250
Just got this email and wanted to pass it along to Hypebot readers: Survey Center Focus, a market research company based in Chicago, is currently doing research with musicians about audio equipment. We are looking for vocalists, guitar players, and bass players that currently use a wireless microphone system to test a new product, on behalf ...
Kyle Bylin: 3 Insights into Future of Geosocial Music
The geosocial revolution (see Foursquare and Facebook Places) promises to connect us to the places we visit and the people who frequent them, while helping us discover music in new ways, too. Over the past year, a number of startups have released location-based music apps—each aspiring to revolutionize the way we listen to music. Wahwah.fm, the ...
