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10 Tips for Emerging Indie Musicians: Planning for Survival and Success
Buzz: Plan is the first digital release in the series Buzz—A survival guide for emerging indie musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. This free ebook is a creation of Stefan Aronsen of SF Intercom. Though it does have some specific SF-related content, the majority is focused on the needs of indie musicians everywhere and includes ...
Believe It or Not: Music Buying Audience is Growing and the CD is Far from Dead [study]
NPD's new “Annual Music Study" shows that after years of losing consumers who simply stopped buying music, the total number of music buyers increased for the second consecutive year, growing 2% in 2011 to 78 million. The number of paid download buyers increased 14% in 2011 to 45 million customers. Digital buyers also spent more at ...
Audiogalaxy Takes On Pandora, iTunes Match and Major Label Lawyers
Seattle based Audiogalaxy has launched a free online music streaming and locker service that combines the best of both with iTune's Match and Pandora. Audiogalaxy also seems certain to feel the legal wrath of record labels and other rightholders. “Our service offers music fans a tunable music experience—play your own tracks anywhere without uploading, copying, or ...
Amazon Backed Songza Launches 'Music Concierge' Songs for Every Mood
Amazon funded streaming music service Songza today launched Music Concierge. The free ad-supported service matches a user's day, time, device and context to create a-curated playlist designed to cure “stale iPod syndrome" After clicking through a few simple options that identify things like the time of day, context (at work?) and your musical preferences (jazz, indie, ...
New Music Seminar 2012 Unveils High Powered Speakers List Including Bob Pittman and Sean Parker
The New Music Seminar (NMS), set to take place in New York City June 17 to 19, announced an impressive speakers list. They include SoundExchange President, Michael Huppe; Pandora CEO/President, Joe Kennedy; Clear Channel Entertainment President, John Sykes; BMI CEO/President, Del Bryant; Violator Management CEO, Chris Lighty; Nile Rodgers Productions Founder/Owner, Nile Rodgers; Reverb Nation CEO/Founder, ...
Extending the Power of "Free" to Live Performances
The practice of offering free access to your recorded music has now become commonplace. The free single, or even free album download, has been around for what seems like eons, and although bands offering free live shows has always been accepted, the embracing of this endeavor could not be more timely than now. Venues offering pay-to-play ...
MOG and the Coming Consolidation in Music Tech
Is MOG for sale? Despite conflicting reports, the answer is probably yes with the most likely suitor Rhapsody, who recently purchased Napster. But what matters much more is that we're almost certainly watching the early stages of consolidation in music streaming and much of music tech. Within music streaming, the important consolidation trends to look for ...
The Great Ticket Scandal Exposes Questionable Practices of Secondary Ticket Sellers
The debate over secondary ticket sales, scalping and related issues is a hot topic in England thanks the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics in London and an investigative documentary that aired last week titled The Great Ticket Scandal. Aired on England's Channel 4, the documentary featured journalistic investigators that got jobs at secondary ticket sellers Viagogo and ...
Kickstarter Will Fund More Projects in 2012 Than National Endowment for the Arts
Fan funding platform Kickstarter is on track to distribute more than $150 million to creative projects in 2012. That's more than this year's $146 million budget for The National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), the primary source of government arts funding in the U.S. Kickstarter's lifetime funding now stands at $150 million, but is accelrating rapidly ...
DJ Lazy Rich Develops Label Engine for Indie Record Label Management
Lazy Rich, a dj based in Vancouver, BC, is developing Label Engine to serve indie record label management needs via the web. Label Engine grew out of Lazy Rich's experiences with his own label, Big Fish Recordings, and his background as a programmer. Beginning with accounting issues, he's proceeded to add digital music promotion and distribution ...
