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Music Industry: So Now You Are on Twitter - But What Should You Do with It (Part 1)
Last week, I wrote on why everyone in the music industry should try Twitter, and apparently some people have taken it seriously ;) since I did get a lot of new followers from within the music business; many of them first-timers. Great! But now that you are tweeting (geek talk for sending messages) - what do ...
7 Reasons Why Everyone in the Music Industry Should Try Twitter
A lot of people ask me why I am so seriously into Twitter, why Twitter matters, and why I recommend that every music industry professional should give it a try. First, for the still-uninitiated: what is Twitter? It's a so-called micro-blogging service that allows you to send up to 140 character messages (called Tweets) to people ...
Inside the Major Label Negotiations with iTunes
Two years after Steve Jobs declared that DRM was dead and a year after Amazon launched its DRM-free download store with all four major labels, the vast majority of tracks on iTunes are still delivered with a little piece of code that restricts transfer and use. What is taking so long? Perhaps deep down Steve Jobs ...
Music 2.0 by the Numbers - Our Top List Posts
A look at some of Hypebot's top Music 2.0 list posts: 5 Lies Indie Musicians Tell Themselves Top 10 Issues Facing Music 2.0 - This was written back in May and almost nothing has changed. A list of 5 Unlikely Music Industry Heroes 100 Free & Affordable High A Low Tech Music Promotion Tips - It's ...
Music Furturist Gerd Leonhard Gives It Away Free
With a tip of the hat to both the holidays and a rough economy, music and media futurist Gerd Leonhard has assembled a round-up of some of his best content and is giving it away for free. Free PDF with Gerd's “Best of 2008 Blog Posts & Essays" (66 pages, US letter size, 10MB) ...
Musicane Sales Widgets Add Sony and EMI
In another example of ongoing efforts by record labels to find alternatives to iTunes and reach consumers wherever that might buy music, Sony and EMI have both signed on to sell via Musicane. In addition to an online store that encourages music discovery and recommendation, Musicane offers sales widgets that can be embedded on MySpace, Facebook, ...
Freezepop: Finding an Audience Through Gaming
In this video from WePCTV, Boston based band Freezepop shares how they have been gaining fans via popular video games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Dance revolution. Originally composing their new wave rock entirely on a small portable MIDI sequencer, the band remixes new releases using computer and gaming technologies.
Sat Eye Candy: The Pogues
BAD TEETH BUT GRAND TUNES AS WE GET OUR IRISH UP Spider Stacy, the man who introduced MTV to the tin whistle, turns 50-years-old tomorrow. Always the calmer counterpart to Shane MacGowan's belligerent, slurry, slightly daft wise man, Spider is an untutored, often unacknowledged part of Ireland's great punk-folk institution. One of the only members to ...
Why a Music Tax is a Mistake
Techdirt's Mike Masnick On Why a Music Tax Is a Mistake Techdirt founder Mike Masnick has followed the twists and turns of the digital music debate for more than a decade, offering some of the most prescient and lucid information and arguments on the topic anywhere. Today he tackles growing calls for a voluntary music-licensing scheme, ...
Online Rebel Publishes Millions of Dollars in U.S. Court Records for Free
Carl Malamud wants access to all public legal documents in the U.S. to be free to the public. If you want to search federal court documents, it's not a problem. Just apply online for an account, and the government will issue you a user name and password. Did I say it's FREE! And once you log ...
