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How Pitchfork Visualizes Music on the Internet
Welcome to part two of our condensed, super-digestible interview with RJ Bentler, vice president of video programming for the influential music tastemaker Pitchfork. The first part of this interview covers the interactive promise of internet-on-the-television. This second (and final) segment concerns Pitchfork’s plans for putting its original video programming directly on the television — an area ...
ShowScoop Launches Live Show Rating App
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. For most of us, live music is something that happens a handful of times per year — a summer festival, a friend's band, maybe a couple of big stadium tours, and/or some local up-and-comers. Other music fans go to shows all the time. This could be because they're in a ...
The New Live Music Experience: Tech, Bands and Fans
Guest post by Casandra Govor (@casandragovor) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. In 2005, live was considered the golden goose of the music sector, all hopes were invested in the small venues and festivals, while pundits and executives preached it to be the future; the alternative to the sinking and piracy-ridden recording industry. By 2010, hopes ...
6 Signs Smartphones Will Replace PCS as Hardware Hubs
Someday, I will stop talking about my iPod prediction of 2001 – the one Gizmodo called “the best iPod prediction ever made.” Today is not that day. In that column, I predicted that not only would the iPod be a hit (despite criticism that it was way too expensive among other things), but that the iPod’s ...
College Students Pivot T-Shirt Biz into WOMP Music Discovery App
By Alex Silverman of Evolver.fm. A year in open development, music discovery site WOMP.in is the brainchild of Jason Wimp, Michal Krupa and Neil Mallinar — three college students still earning their undergraduate degrees from Indiana University, University of Illinois: Urbana Champaign, and John Hopkins respectively. WOMP, set for its official launch this March, emerged from ...
Top 10 Ways to Unclutter Your Band Website
When doing website reviews at Bandzoogle, a common issue we come across are bands trying to put too much content and too many features on their websites. Because there are so many tools, features, and widgets available to musicians, some feel like they should use all of them. But when it comes to your website, simple ...
Tech Evangelist Robert Scoble on Music in the Age of Context #midem
Robert Scoble is one of Silicon Valley's most respected bloggers and tech evangelists, with a role as startup liaison officer at Rackspace Hosting, and a famous enthusiasm for seeking out new and interesting startups and technologies. He took the stage today at Midem for a presentation on 'Music in the Age of Context', in which he ...
Comparing Music Services by Audience, Social Media Followers and Search Engine Dominance
By Marcus Taylor, Director of VentureHarbour. This isn't just another speculative poll on which music streaming / discovery platform is winning the arms race. Oh no! I thought it might be fun to collect a bunch of data from tools used by the digital marketing community to highlight which platform has built and maintained the largest ...
OraStream for Artists: Set up Your Own Streaming Music Store and Mobile App
OraStream is a new music sales platform that features high quality streaming music and offers indie artists the chance to sell or stream their music on the site, to create a streaming music widget and to build and sell native mobile music apps for iOS and Android. They already have some well-known users such as Creedence ...
Murfie Stores Your CD's for Streaming Everywhere
By Tyler Hayes, who runs the music discovery site Nxt Big Thing. Interestingly there's a company that will take your old CDs, store them at their place and give you streaming access to the music. What makes this proposition so tempting is the same thing that makes it so crazy, no one wants their CD collection ...
