MusicThinkTank.com Weekly Recap: First Impressions Count & Much More
Where The Music Industry Thinks Out Loud Glen Brown: Why Play on the Facebook Freeway? Meet Me In My Inbox Instead. Bruce Warila: Who wins the race for investment money,. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Hypebot's New Weekend Format: Joining REWIND (Industry News) and MusicThinkTank Recap every Saturday is Getting It Done: This Week In D.I.Y. Music and on Sunday, The Week In Music Industry. Continue reading
Watch Bruce Springsteen’s Inspiring #SXSW Keynote [VIDEO]
"When I picked up the guitar (in 1964) there was only 10 years of rock history to draw on." Bruce Springsteen said yesterday near the start of his SXSW keynote.. Continue reading
Hypebot Featured On The Music Biz Weekly Podcast
Recently I spent an enjoyable half hour on Skype with Michael Brandvold and Brian Thompson recording Episode 50 of their Music Biz Weekly Podcast. It was a wide ranging chat. Continue reading
On Creating The New Record Label
Guest post by Tyler Hayes, founder of Liisten.com, an independent music discovery site. Maybe you disagree that the way record labels operate is broken, or maybe you're signed to. Continue reading
The Ticket Trust Creates Fair Secondary Ticket Market
When writing about the documentary The Great Ticket Scandal I was introduced to The Ticket Trust. This group was created to allow ticket holders to resale unwanted tickets at face. Continue reading
3 Reasons Spotify May Never Be the OS Of Music
After the opening and initial success of Spotify's app offering, Sten Garmark, the company's director of platform, was quoted as saying: "We have to turn ourselves into the Operating System. Continue reading