Best of 2010: The Most Interesting And Innovative Music Start-ups

This post was written by Chris Bracco, and originally appeared on his blog, Tight Mix. You can follow Chris on Twitter or subscribe to his blog's RSS feed. The end. Continue reading

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YouTube Launches YouTube Trends

YouTube has launched YouTube Trends as "a destination for daily insight into the zeitgeist of the world's largest video site." With 35 hours of new videos a minute being uploaded. Continue reading

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Interview: Indie Band Survival Guide Authors Pt. 2

This is part two of my interview with Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan, who are authors of The Indie Band Survival Guide: The Complete Manual for the Do-It-Yourself Musician. As. Continue reading

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Why Are Some Records Outperforming Singles?

This post is by Katie Reilly of Intern Like A Rockstar. Follow her on Twittter. By now everyone knows the day that we will never forget is actually just the day. Continue reading

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YouTube Star Charlie McDonnell Explains Why File Sharing Is Helping His New Music Release

Charlie McDonnell has released a D.I.Y. album and uses his promo video (with 809,00 views) to share his thoughts on file sharing.  Mike Masnick of Techdirt pointed us to this. Continue reading

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The Transformative Sound of Selling Out

According to Dmitri Vietze, Bob Marley sold out, but transformed the musical landscape along the way. When Bob Marley sold out, he did it in a smart way. Dmitri delves. Continue reading

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Video: Pandora Accepts 30% Of Music Submissions

By now, we all pretty much know the general story of Pandora. Comparisions to rival web radio services aside, Tim Westergren is just interesting to listen to. He's like a. Continue reading

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Video: Real-Time Music Criticism On YouTube

HowToListenToMusic provides a glimpse into how real-time music criticism might work. This critic has taken to PowerPoint like slides that analyze the song while we listen. It was enough to. Continue reading

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EMI, VEVO Reset View Count On Artist’s Music Videos, Taking Away Her Hit Song Status

A Hypebot reader and author of a LeToya fan site wrote in to inform us an odd thing that's happened to her YouTube view counts. Several of her music video's. Continue reading

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Music Industry News: Nielson Drops Radio, Yahoo Cuts, Soundtrkr, OurStage, Dan Chamas & More

Nielsen will end its broadcast radio ratings services in the U.S. with the end of its Fall 2010 book.  Abritron remains the top radio ranking service. Soundtrckr: What Does Music. Continue reading

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Apple’s iTunes Adds Social Playlists To Ping

Slowly but surely Apple's Ping social network is adding features that make it more usable and worthwhile. On Friday Ping added social playlists wherin users can share iTunes playlists within. Continue reading

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