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Curious Sense Games Offer New Music Industry Revenue Stream
Curious Sense is a music game startup that garnered recent press for the release of a Grateful Dead game. Rather than licensing music as a backdrop element, Curious Sense seeks to work with rights holders in creating a game environment built around back catalog music and related media. As is evident with The Epic Tour, which ...
JPortal Injects Indie D.I.Y. Bands into Live Radio
It's a problem that exists all around the world: Radio stations can only play one song at a time, and those songs tend to be the ones that a person or algorithm has already decided is worthy of airplay. We all know there's plenty of great new stuff sitting there, but it's not always easy to ...
Musician Website Quick Fix #6: Host Your Own Blog
The “Website Quick Fix" blog posts are written by musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. When we do website evaluations here at Bandzoogle, there are two broad categories we look at: Design and Content. With poor design, it will be hard to find interesting content on the site. With great design and poor content, there is ...
15 Step Guide to Starting a Local Music Festival
The organizers of the JP Music Festival in Jamaica Plains, a Boston neighborhood, released a guide to how they pulled off a successful new music festival on a local level despite financial challenges. The 15 step guide reveals the approach taken by festival organizers who were recently interviewed by The Future of Music Coalition. They share ...
Overheard @ The Future of Money and Technology Summit in S.F.
The Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco was packed yesterday with visionaries, entrepreneurs, developers, press, investors, authors, solution providers, service providers, and organizations that all work at the convergence of cash and commerce. The Future of Money & Technology Summit set out to explore the impact that technologies of today and tomorrow will have on people's relationship ...
Dave Kusek on Exiting Berklee, Digital Cowboys and What's Next [interview]
After 14 successful years, Dave Kusek is stepping down as VP at Berklee College Of Music to pursue business consulting and angel investing in digital music and media. We caught up with Kusek, who also co-authored the iconic “Future Of Music" to learn his plans. HYPEBOT: You've had a very successful run at Berklee, founding it's ...
Independent Record Stores Dominate Vinyl Sales [chart]
According to stats shared by Nielson, this Saturday's Record Store Day should give U.S. indie music stores something to sing about , thanks in large part to strong vinyl sales. In the past, album sales the week of Record Store Day have seen significant gains at the stores, with sales the week of the 2011 Record ...
Tyler Hayes: Apps vs. Music
Guest post by Tyler Hayes, founder of Liisten.com, an independent music discovery site.. Spotify will lose close to $900 million this year. Are we still sure that subscription services will save the industry? A better hope at trading music for money and becoming profitable is to look at the app market, specifically iOS and the Mac ...
Dave Kusek Exits Berklee College of Music to Return to Music Tech
After 14 years, Dave Kusek is stepping down as VP at Berklee College Of Music to pursue business consulting and angel investing in digital music and media. Kusek, who co-authored the iconic “Future Of Music - A Manifesto For The Digital Music Revolution", founded and led Berklee's hugely successful Berkleemusic online school. In 2012, Berkleemusic will ...
Lyor Cohen, Jon Irwin, Just Blaze and More Join New Music Seminar 2012
New Music Seminar 2012, taking place in NYC June 17 - 19, previously announced an impressive list of speakers including Bob Pittman and Sean Parker. They've now expanded their of “announced players" to include a broad range from Lyor Cohen, CEO of Recorded Music of Warner Music Group, to Jon Irwin, CEO of Rhapsody and Just ...
