EDM News: SFX Buys Beatport, Avicii Releases Crowdsourced “X You”, DJ Marketing Bible
The week's off to an interesting start in the Magical Kingdom of EDM. Empire builder SFX Entertainment is buying leading EDM marketing and download site Beatport while Avicii released his. Continue reading
Revenue Up, But Losses Widen At Live Nation
Despite a strong increase in Q4 revenue, Live Nation's losses for 2012 widened, impacted by a $68.2 million charge in the wake of former chairman Irving Azoff's departure in December.. Continue reading
Caught In Time: The Music Industry’s Struggle To Adapt
Guest post by Justin Stansbury (@twentyeyes138) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Not too long ago, I was discussing with a friend of mine what we felt our. Continue reading
Music Marketing Takeaways From Comscore’s 2013 Mobile Future in Focus Report
Leading web and mobile analytics provider Comscore recently released a group of free reports as the "2013 Digital Future in Focus Series." Their mobile report includes some useful takeaways for. Continue reading
8 Ways To Take On SXSW If They Didn’t Take You
Indie rapper Kosha Dillz (@koshadillz) will perform at SXSW on March 13. SXSW is coming up and everyone is going. Everyone is talking. The Grammy's didn't let you win this. Continue reading
5 Aspects Of The Old Music Industry Being Disrupted And Replaced By Social Media
In a widely noted Billboard interview, Amanda Palmer stated that "Twitter has replaced Google and [music] management." Nobody cared about the Google part but her claim of replacing music management. Continue reading
Instrumachines And Live Electronic Music From The Past To The Future
By Bryan Kim (@freshbreakfast), Director of Business Development at Tracks.by, from his personal blog. This past summer, on the way to see headlining act Girl Talk, I accidentally stumbled upon. Continue reading
How To Use Spotify & Sonos From Behind A Firewall
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Apparently, the Symantec Norton 360 security software can block Spotify from working, even if you don’t monkey around with the default settings. In case. Continue reading
