Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. & Indie Music
CD Baby Slashes Rates For Direct Digital Sales Africa's Music Industry: Building With Cassettes & MP3s In An Underdeveloped Terrain DIY Rapper Kellee Maize On Building Her Brand With SEO,. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
What To Expect At NAMM 2013 Comparing Music Services By Audience, Social Media Followers & Search Engine Dominance 5 iPad Apps For Producing Quality Music Kim Dotcom's Big Party: Mega. Continue reading
Midem: Music’s #1 Global Conference Begins
The global music industry and music tech hordes have descended on Cannes with the opening of Midem 2013. We'll have full coverage with help from Stuart Dredge and his team. Continue reading
New Mike Masnick Report Focuses On Europe
Full Midem 2013 coverage by Stuart Dredge of Music Ally. In January 2012, Techdirt founder Mike Masnick published a report called The Sky Is Rising, a survey of the global. Continue reading
I Fight Dragons Case Study: 1 Song, 7.5 Writers, 18+ Versions & Major Label Rejection [VIDEO]
The music of I Fight Dragons is a combination of pop and rock with chiptune, featuring electronic sounds made using Nintendo Game Boys. Atlantic Records thought enough of the band. Continue reading
This Week’s Most Read Hypebot Posts
Mega Launches: What Can We Expect From Kim Dotcom? 7 Tips On Becoming A Local Star The 25 Richest Musicians In 2012 Topspin, Beats Hookup Fortells Future Of Music Retailing. Continue reading
Are Paid Live Streams Of Concerts The Next Step In Music Revenue?
(UPDATED) By Tyler Hayes, who runs the music discovery site Nxt Big Thing. Up until recently the solution for artists not making money on their music recordings was for them. Continue reading
Thefuture.fm’s New CEO Details Fresh Revenue Streams For DJs
Recently Thefuture.fm announced that they were launching a royalty system for DJs that upload mixes to the site. Having already solved the problem of paying copyright holders for mix content,. Continue reading
Can Short Video Apps Like Strum, Viddy, VJAM, Snapchat & Vine Be Used For Music Marketing?
Though it's easy to be attracted to every shiny new mobile app that comes down the pike, and I'm certainly prey to such Jackdaw thinking, most photo apps are only. Continue reading
Agents Tim Drake and Larry Kosson Win NAPAMA Award
Tim Drake and Larry Kosson of The Roots Agency have been selected as dual winners of this year's North American Performing Arts Association Award for Excellence as Agent in the. Continue reading