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The Importance of Local Relationship Building for Your Band
By Drew DePietro of BandHacks. Every band needs to build relationships within their community. Whether it’s with promoters, other bands or production companies and the people within the community. Without good relationships between all the aforementioned your band is probably destined for failure. Over the years I’ve had the pleasure and great fortune of learning the ...
Case Study: Maximizing Social Media for a Special Live Event
Freelance digital music marketer Lucy Blair recently shared a case study called “How to Win with your Music Event" focused on digital marketing related to a very special event. EDM group Above & Beyond celebrated the 50th episode of their weekly radio show Group Therapy with a live radio show in London drawing an audience of ...
Are Clueless Labels Ruining Mix Platforms Like SoundCloud?
By Adam Singer of The Future Buzz. [Summary as this is a long post]: SoundCloud’s content ID, implemented due to pressure from record labels, incorrectly flagged one of my uploads as infringing material. As a paying customer and huge fan of SoundCloud I am fearful clueless labels may be senselessly setting a precedent that will destroy ...
$2.75 Million Later, Music Discovery Platform Exfm to Shut Down
After four years and $2.75 million in investments, social music discovery platform Exfm is shutting down. As with many other failed music startups, Exfm's founders blame the music industry. "The technical challenges are compounded by the litigious nature of the music industry," the NYC based startup said in a statement, “which means every time we have any meaningful ...
Is the RIAA Planning Another Attack on Musicians' Rights?
By Mike Masnick of Techdirt. We've written a few times about how the RIAA has been fighting hard to screw over tons of musicians by taking away their “termination rights." Termination rights are a bit confusing, but the simplest way of thinking about them is that after 35 years, if a copyright holder had assigned ...
7 Decades, 7 Musical Evolutions
From the Echo Nest Blog. Humankind has had music for as far back as we’re able to define ourselves as such. Some of that music has always been favored by the other cave people, hunters-and-gatherers, farmers, shamans, and whoever else was hanging around. As society changes, our favorite music changes too, and variations in musical memes ...
MAXJAZZ Deal with Naxos Begins with Three New Releases
After an initial announcement was made back in July of this year, the latest three releases from the St. Louis-based independent label MAXJAZZ are the first to be distributed under a new agreement with Naxos of America. Headquartered near Nashville in Franklin, Tennessee, Naxos is the leading independent distributor of classical music in the U.S. and ...
Bandpage CEO J Sider on the State of the New Music Industry
Op-Ed by J Sider, the founder & CEO of BandPage, a leading service for musicians to engage their fans across the web. He's been named to Billboard and Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for the last 3 years. 2013 was a year when the full scale of the Internet became increasingly useful for the music industry. The collected engagement across ...
Woody, Kennedy and Me
Fifty years ago today, only one jazz recording session took place in the U.S. More than six hours after news broke that President Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, Woody Herman decided there wasn't much point in worrying about what he couldn't control and moved forward with the second recording session for what would become Woody ...
Are Press Releases Still Relevant for Music Marketing?
The press release has lost value in recent years as the web has opened up a wide range of communication channels that bypass traditional gatekeepers. Yet, despite the reduced role of press releases, they remain in use on a daily basis and are the source for music industry coverage from small blogs to high budget news ...
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