Musicmetric Scores $4.7 For Affordable Music, Entertainment Data Analytics
UK and LA based Musicmetric has scored a new $4.7 million investment to expand its music analytics service and other data services for the entertainment industry. New investor Imperial Innovations. Continue reading
The Potential Of Annotated Song Lyrics
Guest post by Emily White (@emwhitenoise) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. In the perennial lyrics vs. music debate, I am what you might call a lyrics-freak: I listen to. Continue reading
Finding Your Deep Connections with Indie Rapper Kosha Dillz
By indie rapper Kosha Dillz who is in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign. Although we operate in what is called a superficial business (aka the music industry), I truly. Continue reading
BandPage Extends Profiles, Concert Dates To Pandora, Facebook, Twitter & Soundcloud
BandPage has again expanded it's artist's platform to include new integrations with Twitter, Facebook, Soundcloud and concert listings on Pandora. The Twitter, Facebook and SoundCloud integrations allow artists to manage. Continue reading
Selling Music On iTunes? Fandalism Has Lowest Distro Fees, GeoRiot Simplifies Affiliate Sales
Great news for musicians is not always good for incumbent services for artists. In the case of iTunes music sales, musicians' network Fandalism is introducing the lowest distribution fees now. Continue reading
Why Did Dropbox Buy Audiogalaxy?
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Most companies making strides in the cloud are big. Apple (iCloud) and Google (Drive) are front-runners in the general cloud storage space. If you. Continue reading
Musicians: Create Your Own Box Of Goodies Like Ashton Kutcher Minus Fancy
Ashton Kutcher recently launched a monthly subscription box full of interesting items via Fancy. Though Fancy is said to be opening up their program for others to create subscription boxes,. Continue reading
Musicplayr Integrates With Gracenote For Searchable Web Music Archive
The many ways in which fans can discover, enjoy and share music for free are expanding both in scope and sophistication. Today, Musicplayr, which lets fans collect, listen to and. Continue reading
Music Hack Day Stockholm Spawns 7 Great Games
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. As some of us enjoyed a long weekend, hardware hackers and software savants were building some of the future of music at Spotify’s worldwide. Continue reading
Bring In The Bean Counters: Hilco Buys HMV Debt
Private equity investor Hilco Consumer Capital has bought the debt of British music retailer HMV, which went into administration last week. As of the end of October 2012, HMV had. Continue reading
