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The New Music Business is for Grown-Ups
This post is by Robin Davey of The Hoax and The Bastard Fairies. Interview. Although the accessibility of YouTube has opened up avenues to exploit the seemingly prophetic abilities of Justin Bieber and his ilk, the truth is, the only people that are mesmerized by his skills are the young and naive. The rest of us, consciously or subconsciously, equate it to ...
Topspin Opens Direct to Fan Platform to All in March
Topspin CEO Ian Rogers used the New Music Seminar, which winds up today in LA, to announce that their direct to fan platform will open to all musicians in March. While used by hundreds of musicians from Paul McCartney to unknown bands over the last 18 months, Topspin had been previously invite only. In addition, Rogers ...
How Music Hack Day Evolved - And Why the Music Industry Must Embrace the Chaos [interview]
This post is by Alison McCarthy (@aliiimac). She's an intern at Hypebot. Fueled by caffeine and pizza, developers, designers, hackers and music geeks gathered together this past weekend at Manhattan's General Assembly for New York City's first Music Hack Day. Designed to bring New York's tech cognoscenti together to build the next generation of music applications, by the ...
Is MySpoonful Different from RCRDLBL? [interview]
Few weeks ago, I discovered mySpoonful, which is a music discovery site and newsletter. Initially, the service made me skeptical. Why send busy people more e-mail? In my mind, there had to be a better way. Readers also pointed out that sites like Rcrdlbl and Track in the Box do similar functions. In search of answers, I ...
New Apple App Rules Could Kill Subscription Music
Check and mate. There's no other way to make sense of what just happened. As far as subscription music is concerned, Apple has now cornered the king of every subscription music service. If any of them moves an inch, in any direction, Apple takes/kills their king. Up until now, every subscription service has played a strategy game—against Apple ...
Sick of Sarah - The First Label Backed Band Release to be Freely Distributed to Fans Via BitTorrent
How do you reach 100 million would be fans? If you're Eminem, you star in a couple of Super Bowl ads. If you're Sick of Sarah, you release your album via BitTorrent. Adamant Records, their label, has posted a tutorial on torrents and how they work on their home page. Last year, BitTorrent started a pilot ...
Gigswiz Officially Lands in U.S. [launch]
This post is by Ryan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv. GigsWiz officially launches in the U.S. today. Members of the team will be sharing details about the service with an announcement at NMS in Los Angeles today. Last week I had the chance to talk on Skype with Joonas Pekkanen, one of the three co-founders. ...
Rhapsody CEO Blasts Apple: New App Store Terms "Economically Untenable"
After Apple announced new 30% commission rates that, as Kyle Bylin wrote, could kill subscription music, I wondered who would risk Apple's legendary rath and speak up. Yesterday, John Erwin, the President of Rhapsody, America's biggest subscription music service with 750,000 subscribers, weighed in bravely calling Apple's new app store terms “economically untenable" and hinting at ...
Why Artists Should Ditch MySpace for Bandcamp
This post is by Vince Neilstein, the Editor-In-Chief at Metal Sucks. There aren't any reasons to be using MySpace in 2011. I suppose it can't hurt to have a band profile there just in case someone happens to stumble upon it, but that's about it; MySpace is a useless, out-dated, cluttered, piece-of-shit platform and there are better ...
Indies See Grammy Sales Bump, Majors Stay Flat
Do the Grammy's still sell albums and for who? The answer: not Lady Gaga or Train. While the awards show didn't hurt them either, artists like Arcade Fire, Lady Antebellum, and Eserpanza Spalding saw the largest gains. In other words, the already well-known hit makers of the last year mostly stayed flat, with the exception of ...
