Timbre Scores $360K To Take Local Music Discovery App Global
Boostrapped live music discovery app Timbre, has scored $360,000 in seed funding from Fred Destin at Atlas, Boston Seed Capital’s Nicole Stata and Bantam Group’s Joe Caruso. The IOS app,. Continue reading
Pandora Shares January Audience Stats, Active Users Drop
(UPDATED) Pandora just shared monthly metrics for January 2013. Listener hours for the month hit 1.39 billion, an increase of 47% from 952 million during the same period last year.. Continue reading
CBS Email To Grammy Peformers: “Avoid exposing bare fleshy under curves of the buttocks”
(UPDATED) Every year CBS' Standard And Practice group issues a warning to Grammy performers and presenters dubbed affectionately, the ‘Wardrobe Advisory’, and almost every year some performer intentionally or via. Continue reading
Warner Music Buys Parlophone [Cold Play, Pink Floyd, David Guetta] For $765 Million
(UPDATE 2) Warner Music Group has purchased EMI's Parlophone music group from Universal for $765 million. The deal includes Parlophone, Chrysalis, Ensign and other labels along with related EMI European. Continue reading
Apple Is Building A Social Music Network
Guest post by Matt Kiser (@Matt_Kiser) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. There's a lot of talk about how Apple is building a whiz-bang, streaming Internet radio. Continue reading
Music Marketing Success With Videos: Garcia Goodbye, SoundTube, Vine Madness
I've gathered together some pretty different examples of music marketing and tools related to videos though only one is a straight up music video tool. Garcia Goodbye took a small. Continue reading
Banana Stand Media Documents Live Shows From Their Secret Venue In Portland
Banana Stand Media is a really interesting project that focuses on making live recordings by Portland bands for a small audience in what they claim is a "secret venue." Since. Continue reading
Pairing Music With Tangible Products
Since music isn’t generating as much money for musicians as it used to, what should they do? Many are on the road traveling and playing shows while others are trying. Continue reading
Hands-On Audiobox’s Awesome Music Cloud Locker
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. One big problem with music — arguably the biggest, because it could solve so many of the others — is that services and formats. Continue reading
