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The Many Hats of a Musician
Ever feel like you never have enough time to juggle the many hats of a musician trying to make it? Well, on Music Think Tank, Rich Gordon does not have a miraculous answer, but he would like to reach out to other musicians and get some input. How do you manage the different hats of a ...
What Apple's Licensed Cloud Music Service Will Have That Google and Amazon Don't
(UPDATED) Google and Apple both recently launched cloud music services without licenses from labels and publishers. The result for both are online music storage services rather than a multi-featured cloud music system. In the last few days a glimpse of the advantages that Apple's music cloud will offer when it officially launches on June 6th because ...
Fat Beats and Rhino Records Continue Retail Legacy with Pop-up Shops and Performances
Fat Beats, the record label and music distributor, used to have multiple record stores with in-store events were widely distributed om YouTube. Rhino Records once jad two shops in Los Angeles. Now both are holding pop-up shops with live shows in a manner that extends their retail legacy. And as much as many of us like ...
Google Offered Labels $100 Million to License Cloud Music Service
(UPDATED) Google offered the for major record labels an advance of as much as $100 million to license a more cloud music service than it launched last month as Google Music Beta, according to Businessweek. The labels reportedly refused unless Google did more to stem piracy. Some question if the labels are not also giving Apple ...
Napster and Kazaa Founders Answer: Does Innovation Always Have to be This Messy? [video]
At eG8 in Pairs, Reuters TV asked Kazaa and Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström and Napster and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, if disruption of an industry always has to be messy; and if their current investments in subscription music services including Spotify are atonement for the upheaval they caused in the music industry.
From Pirates to Fans
Piracy is a serious topic in the music industry of which we've all been long aware. Approaches have varied from heavy handed lawsuits that have eroded good will to direct discussions with pirates that require good will to succeed. Here is one indie software developer's experience with personal appeals to those who have pirated his software ...
BOBCOM Offers "Fasttrack" for Indie Musicians
BOBCOM is a new platform for indie musicians designed to allow musicians to upload and sell their music to fans who rate and share those same tunes. Though there are many similar platforms, BOBCOM is distinguished by networking, performance and other opportunities for musicians who build fan support to take what the site calls the “Fasttrack," ...
mSpot Launches Combined Cloud Music Locker, Streaming Radio
With Google, Amazon and likely Apple getting into the cloud music business, mobile music provider mSpot might have a hard time competing. So today the upstart launched Radio Spotter Beta - the first service to combine a cloud music and storage locker service with streaming radio. Radio Spotter is available Android users in the US. The ...
