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Pomplamoose: How to Quit Your Job, Rarely Play Live, Never Tour, and Still Sell Music
“That regular engagement of the fan base is super important." Jack Conte of the indie pop duo Pomplamoose joined Kevin Breuner on CD Baby's DIY Musician Podcast to discuss how his group has used video to reach music fans around the world. Known most famously for their “video songs" in which the video imagery ...
Tommy Silverman: "Hobbyists... Clutter the Music Environment with Crap."
Over at Wired, there's an intriguing interview piece where the ever curious Eliot Van Buskirk talks with Tommy Silverman, founder of Tommy Boy Records, about “What's Wrong With Music Biz." As expected, there are some rather controversial things said in relation to what it means to “break" an artist in the music industry these days, and ...
Adam Singer: Fighting the Future at Every Turn
In response to post on on WSJ's All Things Digital blog by Kara Swisher, where she laments about a lack of business models for the entertainment industry in the digital age, PR strategist Adam Singer has written a great critique of her piece--that's worth the read and full of quotable lines. He finds it to be ...
MySpace Music is Burning Money, Possible Subcription Service in the Works
Before the end of the year, MySpace Music, having “underachieved“ with regard to revenue goals, is considering launching paid subscription service. Sources say they are in need of moving to a paid model because the venture is burning through piles of money each month. Courtney Holt, President of MySpace Music, went on record saying that they ...
Album Leaks: Are Tuesday's Gone with the Wind?
TIME ran a story this morning on album leaks; the topic is interesting to me because it highlights a shift that happened within my lifetime. Prior to the web and the social epidemic of file-sharing, Tuesday was the holy grail of the record industry. New albums came about that day. Yet, in recent years, if I've ...
Baym: Changing Relationships, Changing Industries
Communication scholar Nancy Baym, who has been interviewed on here before, recently gave a great talk at Harvard's Berkman Center. In it, she talks about how the music industries, in advent of the Internet and social web, have been forced to rethink how they work and relate to their audiences. She argues that the music industries ...
Gaga Power, the Rules for the Grammys Change
Due to a technicality, Lady Gaga was ineligible for the nomination of best new artist at this year's Grammys -even though she was the most popular artist of 2009. Since she was a nominee the previous year, it meant that she couldn't be one in the next. Determined to prevent another oversight like this from happening in ...
New Music Seminar Announces Updated Conference Schedule and Speaker Line Up
New Music Seminar has announced an updated schedule and speaker line up for its New York City summer conference from July 19th to 21st at Webster Hall. The conference will include five focused discussions on topics like the future of media and live touring over the course of two days, and 8 NMS Intensives from industry ...
Now You Can Buy Twitter Followers, but Will Any Become True Fans?
Several services including Twitter1K and Followers For Sale have begun selling new Twitter fans by the thousands an at least one experienced internet marketer Jonathan Volk claims to have increased his Twitter following after buying just 1000 followers. “Before ordering this service, I had a negative trend in followers. After ordering I gained the followers that ...
Soundscan Starts Counting Loudbytes Merchandise Plus Download Packages
Loudbytes has been experimenting with selling t-shirts, buttons, mugs and other music merchandise with download codes attached. Now Loudbytes downloads will be counted by SoundScan alongside sales at iTunes, Amazon and other outlets. “Loudbytes is not about originating sales online, it's about creating new ways to sell digital music in the physical world," says Ruben Lozano ...
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