REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Facebook announced major changes to Band Pages and major music apps makers are responding with new strategies. Meet The People Behind Hypebot & MusicThinkTank INgrooves Buys Fontana Distribution From Universal. Continue reading
MusicThinkTank Weekly Recap: Facebook’s Timeline & More
Where The Music Industry Thinks Out Loud Bas Grasmayer: The Next Music Format Case-Study: Twisted Music Dave Cool: The Four P’s of Playing Live Shows: Promotion Brian Thompson: The Twitter. Continue reading
Billboard Discontinues Indie Artist Pro Service
( UPDATED) Less than one year after its launch, Billboard this week announced that: "Billboard Pro has been discontinued, effective March 1, 2012. We will be moving our DIY and indie. Continue reading
INgrooves Buys Fontana Distribution From Universal
(UPDATED) Digital music distributor INgrooves has acquired physical music distributor Fontana from Universal Music Group. Fontana has served as the U.S. distributor for such independent labels as Dangerbird, ECMD, Filter, Ministry. Continue reading
Discover New Kickstarter Campaigns With Hype Machine’s Fundhaus
Fundhaus, the project previously known as Kickstumbler, is a service designed to help you discover Kickstarter projects. Billed as a cross between Kickstarter and Stumble Upon, Fundhaus was created by. Continue reading
The Week In Music Publishing 3.2.12
(UPDATED) '80s band Toto has filed a suit in U.S. District Court against Sony Music for failing to pay the entitled 50% of net receipts from licensing the band's music to third. Continue reading
Music Bloggers: Don’t Lose Your Reader’s Pinterest
Guest post by Brian Thompson of Thorny Bleeder and co-host, The Music Biz Weekly Podcast. With the incredibly popularity of Pinterest, bloggers need to put a laser focus on the. Continue reading
The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music [Review]
"Keyboard Presents the Evolution of Electronic Dance Music," edited by Peter Kirn, is a truly awesome book. While it's certainly of interest to djs, electronic musicians and dance music fans,. Continue reading
Extending The Power Of “Free” To Live Performances
The practice of offering free access to your recorded music has now become commonplace. The free single, or even free album download, has been around for what seems like eons,. Continue reading
3 Lessons You Can Learn From Indie Band Pomplamoose
Thanks to YouTube and their clever performance style, independent duo Pomplamoose has had some real successes. On Music Think Tank, Jamie Leger offers 3 powerful messages that the band has. Continue reading
