Lessons Learned From Three Successful Kickstarter Music Campaigns
Crowdfunding has been around long enough now to begin to recognize patterns of successful campaigns. Different music campaigns reveal different aspects but, if one compares notes, certain principles seem to. Continue reading
5 Ways Your Manager Can Screw Up Your Career
1) They update your social networks as if they're you Your fans are not dumb, they know your music probably better than you do, and they can also tell when. Continue reading
Shinedown To Release Companion iBook On The Making Of Their New Album Amaryllis
Though Shinedown is not the first to create an album-related iBook project, they do seem to be the first to have a large budget to create an iBook about every. Continue reading
Propellerhead ‘Figure’: A $1 Music Production Studio
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Get ready to make music “on the bus” in a whole new way. Propellerhead, which makes the legendary Reason desktop music software,. Continue reading
Ariel Hyatt’s Social Media Food Pyramid
Remember learning the food pyramid and what foods you should eat and foods that you should eat sparingly? Well, Ariel Hyatt uses the food pyramid model to help you craft. Continue reading
Spotify Adds New 12 Apps, Including First From Labels Def Jam, Warners, Matador & More
Custom apps are helping Spotify stand apart from increasingly aggressive competitors, as well as, driving discovery and engagement. So its little surprise that today they added 12 more to the. Continue reading
Seth Godin To Keynote Rethink Music Conference
Best-selling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin will deliver the keynote address at the upcoming Rethink Music 2012 conference. Produced by Berklee College of Music and midem, the gathering will run. Continue reading
NEWS BRIEF: Tunecore vs. Amazon, MOG Sales Update, Spotify, Moshcam, Deezer, Instagram & More
Tunecore distributed artists are still not for sale on Amazon UK, but CEO Jeff Price tells Hypebot that "lots of progress made all in the right direction, (the issue) should. Continue reading
Musician Ryan O’Neal On Spotify, Kickstarter & Leaving Interscope To Go D.I.Y.
Guest post by Tyler Hayes, founder of Liisten.com, an independent music discovery site. Liisten: What do you think of renting (spotify) music vs. owning and buying music? RYAN: I feel. Continue reading
FanFueled Attracts Major Music Clients To Their Social Ticketing And Fan Engagement Platform
FanFueled, the social ticketing and fan engagement platform, has developed quite a bit since we last covered them at Hypebot back in November. Between returning clients and new clients as. Continue reading
One Tweet Later, Deadmau5 Finds A Collaborator
Deadmau5 was working on some music and livestreaming the process along with some tweeting. It's a track based on the Ray Bradbury story The Veldt. A total stranger, Chris James. Continue reading