New Take On Music Crowdfunding From Cooking Vinyl’s Pete Lawrence & Book Publisher Unbound
Pete Lawrence, founder of England's Cooking Vinyl record label and The Big Chill festival, is launching another more intimate festival called Alfresco. But instead of directly crowdfunding the festival, he's. Continue reading
Robin Taylor Leaves ICM To Re-Launch Inland Empire
After a three year stint at ICM, Robin Taylor has left the agency to relaunch her own firm, Inland Empire Touring. Located once more in Brookyln, New York, Inland Empire. Continue reading
NEWS BRIEF: Best Buy Closing More Stores, Rdio Takes On EU, $ Raised For Sony + EMI & More
Best Buy is closing 50 full stores as part of an efforts to cut $800 million in costs. The reatiler is also opening 100 smaller mobile only locations. Interview: Rdio. Continue reading
Songkick Adds 100,000 New Users With Spotify App In Just 4 Months.
(UPDATED) Concert app Songkick shared today that they registered 100,000 new users since launching a special Spoitfy app less than four months ago. The company says that millions of personalized. Continue reading
6 Essential Elements For Every Artist’s Homepage
Guest post by David Dufresne, CEO of musician website and marketing platform Bandzoogle. Your homepage is usually the first page visitors to your website will see, so it’s important to make. Continue reading
Ex-Maxim & Blender Magazine Exec Joins Billboard As New Editor In Chief
Joe Levy is joining Billboard as its new Editor In Chief replacing Danyel Smith who abruptly left the music industry trade recently. Levy was previously editor at Rolling Stone and. Continue reading
FREE INVITES: Musician Friendly Blogging Platform StageBloc Enters Beta
StageBloc is a new blogging platform described by cofounder and CEO Tom Giles as being somewhere between Tumblr and WordPress. It offers hosted websites that are designed to be simple. Continue reading
Zoe Keating Tries To Make Sense Of The Performance Royalty System
Guest post by Zoë Keating. As a DIY artist it's up to me to educate myself about the music business. I do my best, but some elements of it seem. Continue reading
The Successful DIY Indie Artist Project
Are you a successful Independent artist, know of one, or a DIY/Indie music innovator? On Music Think Tank, Jamie Leger is doing research and trying to figure out what strategies. Continue reading
Consolidation In The Digital Music Distribution Business. Does Size Really Matter?
Guest Post by Steven Corn co-founder and CEO of independent digital music distributor BFM Digital. Recently it was announced that IODA and The Orchard are merging and majority stake will. Continue reading
