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Jack White Creates Third Man Rolling Record Store
If the record industry is dying, no one told Jack White. Where the major labels see a landscape that's fraught with music piracy and shrinking revenues, he sees an industry that's ripe for disruption. In his latest attempt, White has created the Third Man Rolling Record Store. The truck will carry a full-menu of Third Man ...
D.I.Y. Bootcamp: Sound Exchange [video]
EXCLUSIVE: The great folks over at Scion A/V have produced a series that provides a tour of tools that make a D.I.Y. music career work. Today, Shane German of SoundExchange, the non-profit performance rights organization that collects statutory royalties from satellite radio, internet radio, cable TV music channels and similar platforms explains how virtually any artist ...
Your Best Friend Calls You and Tells You He/She's Really Sick? How Do You Show You Care?
"If a Studio Doesn't Fly a Flag, They're Dead." It goes without saying that today's music space is hypercompetitive—mainly as a result from the near zero barriers to entry. Virtually anyone can record an album, distribute, tour, and sell product directly to fans. “I don't think there's anything negative about that," says John Vanderslice, founder of ...
Direct-to-Fan Service Nimbit Gains $1.25M in Funds
Direct-To-Fan service Nimbit has raised an additional $1.25 million of funding from its current investor group. The company will use these funds to expand their product team and speed up the introduction of new direct-to-fan products. “The music industry is now turning the corner and direct-to-fan has emerged as the new model," said CEO Bob Cramer. ...
Interview with $77m Richer CEO of Beyond Oblivion
Beyond Oblivion, who recently recevied a $77 million investment from News Corp, is building Nokia's “Comes With Music" all over again. Undeterred by the fact that Nokia has scaled back the service, the company intends to bake the cost of unlimited music into digital devices. CEO Adam Kidro believes that “Comes With Music" failed because it was ...
Spotify Payouts - The Strangeness Continues
This post is by Faza at The Cynical Musician. When I originally wrote about the Spotify payouts for my music, I noted the large divergence between the minimum and maximum amounts paid per play. From what I've read elsewhere, nobody really has a clue as to how the rate per-stream is calculated (other than Spotify, of ...
How an Indie Act Gained 7 Million New Listeners
Six months ago, the Swedish band Fulkulter launched TheUglyDance.com. It's a simple, yet genius idea. The site lets visitors upload a picture of themselves to a small body and it dances wildly on command. While you watch yourself do The Ugly Dance, a song by the same name plays in the background. That's it. Anders Tjernblom, ...
EchoNest, Rhapsody Launch #SXSW Explorer App
(Updated) Echo Nest and Rhapsody launched Festival Explorer Austin Edition, a free iPhone app that integrates personalized concert recommendations, show calendar, location based tools and data on 2,000+ bands playing SXSW. Festival Explorer Austin Edition lets SXSW attendees search the concert calendar by artist, venue or tag. Many bands play multiple shows, so users can add ...
Site Platform Bandzoogle Buys Competitor Sayvee
Musician website platform Bandzoogle has acquired Sayvee, a fellow Canadian start-up that branded itself as “Web Fuel For Artists." Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sayvee hosted websites will be moved to Bandzoogle's servers over the next few weeks and receive a free trial. “We have been hard at work this year upgrading Bandzoogle's core ...
The Music Piracy Debate Marches On
Earlier this week, Hypebot asked readers if they were over the whole “music piracy" thing, and somewhat surprisingly a resounding “NO“ echoed through the comments. I say “surprisingly" because you surprise and delight us every day with your comments. While music piracy is certainly an important topic that we would never stop writing about, it's always ...
