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What's Ahead for 2011? Dave Cool Says Google Music Could Be a Game Changer
As we end the year, Hypebot asked some our favorite thinkers, writers, and friends to answer two questions—one looking forward and the other back. Here Dave Cool, director and producer of the film “What is INDIE? A Look into the World of Independent Musicians," shares his answers. Hypebot: What do you see as the most important ...
Echo Nest CEO Explains How New MTV Music Meter Will Help Indie Artists
MTV has partnered with Echo Nest to develop products that will to enable better music discovery. First up is the MTV Music Meter chart that which searches blogs, social media and traditional metrics like radio and sales to determine which artists are getting the most attention. But unlike Billboards new Social 50 and Big Champagne's Ulitimate ...
Google Ready to Give Music Labels Tens of Millions of $'s, Deals to Buy Rhapsody or Spotify Off
Google is reportedly offering to pay the record labels tens of millions of dollars in advances so they'll sign off on a Google Music service. For now, the focus is on a Google online music locker, but a Spotify or Rhapsody style streaming service will follow. Google's in house music technology lawyer Elizabeth Moody has just ...
MusixShare Helps Support Social Causes with Music
MusixShare is a brand-new startup that enables artists to pair up with social causes. When fans purchase music through the site, a portion of that sale goes to a designated cause or charity. As well, artists can come together to create digital cause compilations. This way, both artists and fans can collaborate to support timely and ...
1,000,000th Band Joins ReverbNation
Late last night, ReverbNation registered their 1 millionth artist to the platform. To celebrate this event, the staff at the company are rewarding the Latin group PANA! with a package of free services and merchandise. Having launched in 2006, ReverbNation considers this to be an important milestone for the company. Why have they been so successful? ...
If You Share a 30 Second Song Sample on My Facebook Wall, We're No Longer Friends.
We're all well aware that Facebook lacks music functionality. Music WithMe is a music app, recently upgraded, that seeks to circumvent this situation. Trouble is that Music WithMe does a terrible job at it. If you don't use iTunes, the app is useless. If you haven't yet downloaded the song that you desire to share, the ...
Interview with CEO of LyricFind: On "Lyrics for Free" and Fighting Lyric Pirates One Site at a Time
Recently, I spoke with Darryl Ballantyne, who is CEO of LyricFind, a legal lyric solution provider. In part one of this interview with Ballantyne, he talks about recent developments at his company and the challenges of disrupting lyric pirates. Hypebot: How will your “Lyrics For Free" option be helpful in relation to curving lyric piracy? Darryl ...
The Unfamiliar Sound of Competition
Bruce Warila gives his expertise on upcoming changes in competition and pricing for songs and how these changes will affect the music industry. Many music consumers are affected by price and want the greatest value at the lowest price. Bruce goes on to discuss exposure and 360 deals. He writes, “There's a clash coming between legacy ...
Video: Behind the Scenes on the DJ Shadow Tour
Over the last few months during the extensive DJ Shadow tour, Michael Fiebach, the tour's Project, Marketing & Merchandise Manager have Hypebot readers an exclusive look inside they market and stay connected to fans. The 5 part series is a must read for anyone interested in the hands on challenges of modern music marketing (read , ...
