Derek Sivers Explains DIY (Decide It Yourself)
Derek Sivers recently released a series of videos, titled Uncommon Sense, in which he sensibly discusses music and entrepreneurship in a manner that cuts through a lot of noise while. Continue reading
FreeIndie: Indie Music Discovery & $5 Daily Deals
FreeIndie, a site that features select free songs from independent artists has grown to 140k+ subscribers on Tumblr and e-mail. Now they are branching out with a daily deal –. Continue reading
40% of YouTube’s Audience Watch Music Videos
Beginning today comScore will be reporting data on YouTube partner channels. They apparently released some early information to Ad Age who revealed that music videos are a big draw and. Continue reading
Facing The Music Industry As An Independent Artist
Industry professionals and artists have different mind sets. Artists try to get the attention of industry professionals by calling, e-mailing, and mailing constantly usually not getting anywhere. On Music Think. Continue reading
Why Hasn’t Superglued Concert Community Achieved Critical Mass?
Superglued is a community built around the music concert-going experience. It's a nice looking site with an interesting concept that includes rewarding its users for their activity both on and. Continue reading
AM News: Jay Frank Exits CMT, More Sony Layoffs, SXSW Panel Picker, Rightsflow, shuffler.fm & More
Jay Frank, author of FutureHitDNA, exits CMT as SVP Music Strategy for a stealth digital startup. Former radio exec Leslie Fram replaces Frank. More layoffs as the new Sony team. Continue reading
Onesheet Leaves Private Beta With 10,000 Users, New Features
ArtistData founder Brenden Mulligan is reporting some solid first month for Onesheet, his new service that lets musicians set up a branded web presence quickly by pulling assets from other. Continue reading
Check Out Chill – “Turntable.fm For Videos”
Chill launched last week and was quickly dubbed a "Turntable.fm for Videos" in that it hosts VJ'ing rooms using videos from YouTube, Vimeo and Hulu. I've been checking it out. Continue reading
SF Music Tech Announces New Speakers
Just as the Bandwidth Conference gets underway in San Francisco today, SF Music Tech is offering the music industry a reason to return to the Bay area next month with. Continue reading
Swarm.fm Turns Facebook, Web Into Virtual Jukebox
This guest post comes from Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. TechCrunch calls it “amazing” and “wonderful.” Swarm.fm’s +Music, available for Google’s Chrome web browser, does a lot to justify those claims. This. Continue reading
