Get More Fans Is A Mindblowingly Complete DIY Guide To The New Music Business
Jesse Cannon and Todd Thomas's new book, titled "Get More Fans," is more accurately described by the subtitle "The DIY Guide to the New Music Business." At a bit over. Continue reading
How The Digital Music Revolution Is Re-shaping Album Artwork
With digital music, many felt that it deprived albums of its visual and tactile components. However, in Mark’s opinion, the digital music revolution is actually breathing new life into album. Continue reading
Chirpify Adds $2 Million In Funding, Signs Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg & Puma For In-Stream Social Commerce
Today Chirpify, an instream social commerce app for Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, announced $2 million in new funding from Voyager Capital. That brings their investment total to date to $3.3. Continue reading
N.Y. Court Rules Against Grooveshark In Universal Music Battle
In a major blow to Grooveshark, a five judge panel of the New York Supreme Court’s appellate division ruled that music recorded prior to 1972 was not covered by safe. Continue reading
Rawkblog’s David Greenwald & Moheak Radio’s Nicole Cifani – Upward Spiral Podcast #22
Bloggers and music fanatics David Greenwald of Rawkblog and Nicole Cifani of Moheak Radio talk about the past, present and future of music blogs. We discuss the role of technology. Continue reading
Hip Hop Chess Federation Drops Mike Relm Video, Heads To St. Louis For Community Events
The Hip Hop Chess Federation is a unique organization based in the SF Bay Area that brings together young people for events featuring hip hop, chess and martial arts. It. Continue reading
MusicGrid.me Relaunches, Partners With Criminal Records To Support Indie Record Stores
MusicGrid.me recently relaunched just in time for Record Store Day. It's basically a site where people can rate and review albums, as opposed to singles, and see what other people. Continue reading
CODEMKRS Announces Winners Of New Orleans’ First Music Hakathon
With festival season in full swing, New Orleans based non-profit CODEMKRS hosted the state’s first music hackathon in a 24 hour “code festival” held this weekend at the University of. Continue reading
Social Music Began With Napster’s Hot List
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. We like 8Tracks (web, iOS, Android) for mixtape sharing, because it makes it easy, and pretty. You simply upload songs from your computer (or. Continue reading