Vote: What Do You Think Of The New Myspace?
Myspace unveiled a major makeover late yesterday including a redesigned site, an unusual new logo, and a major shift in focus. Traffic is slipping on the once top social network. Continue reading
Music Games Expected To Have Poor Holiday Sales
Music-based videogame sales are down 50% from the prior year. Profits in the category reached $875 million in 2009 and it is reported to be lucky if it breaks $500. Continue reading
Music Industry News: Lime Wire Betrayed Users, Citigroup & EMI Trial, FM Chip War, BitTorrent & More
This morning, I posted a graphic that compared the incomes of indie and major label artists. The readers, as they should, quickly pointed out several flaws in the chart. Bruce. Continue reading
Judge Orders LimeWire To Shut Down
Granting a request from the music industry, a federal judge has ordered Limewire to shut down "the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality" of. Continue reading
Pirate Bay Documentary Funded Through Kickstarter
The Pirate Bay documentary has received full funding through Kickstarter. They received $51,434 from 1737 backers, adding up to $29 per backer. With an initial goal of $25,000 to fund. Continue reading
Zaptunes Gets Killed, Claims Site Wasn’t A Fraud
After three short months, Zaptunes, a site claiming to offer users unlimited music downloads, died. Their take on these events are quite amusing. Apparently, many of their users thought the. Continue reading
6 Reasons Not To Quit MySpace
Yesterday, my Hypebot collegue Kyle Bylin celebrated the first anniversary of Andrew Dubber's Quit MySpace Day, even offering instructions for quitting. Blogger Steve Lawson agreed: "…it’s become almost exclusively the domain of. Continue reading
Why Writing Well Will Help Your Music Career
One of the top qualities that recruiters look for in job candidates is good communication skills. This is no exception to the music industry. Mike Venti gives 7 reasons why. Continue reading
Always-On: How Technology Is Biased Against Time
In the past, when you called someone and the person was not home, a voicemail greeted you. It said that they must be away from the house and will call. Continue reading
4 Services That Help Bands Make Money Online
Mashable writer Brenna Ehrlich has done a great job at outlining four services that can help unsigned bands make money online. Each of them have been profiled on Hypebot in. Continue reading
The Next Iteration of Interactive Music Videos
Andy Grammer has an interactive music video out. Users engage with the content and make decisions in real-time. Once selected, the course of the story switches. The scene changes are. Continue reading
