Pioneering Music Blog Aggregator Elbows Calls It Quits
Founded in 2005, Elbo.ws, was among the first major music blog aggregators. By bringing disparate content and advertisers under one roof, Elbo.ws gave voice to a new generation of passionate citizen. Continue reading
Dave Allen On Making His Way Into Advertising After Playing In Gang of Four
Former Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen eventually left performing to work on digital music licensing for the web and then transitioned into advertising and interactive marketing. He is now. Continue reading
Spotify Adds Concerts To All Artist Pages via Songkick
It's been almost 2 years since Songkick launched its app on Spotify, giving fans the option to see selected tour dates with in Spotify. Now the two companies have expanded. Continue reading
How to Record and Release Cover Songs: An Interview with HFA
This post originally appeared on the Bandzoogle Blog. HFA provides rights management, licensing and royalty services for the music industry. With over 46,000 music publishing clients, HFA issues the largest. Continue reading
iTunes Radio To Expand To UK, Canada Ahead Of Pandora
iTunes Radio will launch in the UK, Canada and other international markets early in 2014, ahead of Pandora. iTunes Radio will also launch on Australia and new Zealand, two markets where. Continue reading
Live Touring News: Christopher To Paradigm, Miserendino To Helm AEG Europe
Corrie Christopher To Paradigm Paradigm has announced that veteran agent Corrie Christopher has joined the firm as an agent in the music division. Christopher's roster includes a number of major. Continue reading
NEWS BRIEF: Google’s 21M Sept. Takedowns, BBC Adds Playlister, Who Gets Baby Blue $$?, Merlin & More
NARM and Digitalmusic.org Rebrand as the Music Business Association
NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) and its digital sister digitalmusic.org will now collectively known as the Music Business Association (MusicBiz.org), the music industry trade group announced today. The organization. Continue reading
So, That’s Where The Money Goes: Warner Music’s New $16M Per Year NYC Office
Major record labels have long claimed that they need to take huge profits from hit records to make up for their many misses. But its the excesses, particularly in this. Continue reading
World of Bluegrass 2013 Finds A Welcoming Home In Raleigh, NC
World of Bluegrass is a major gathering that took place for a number of years in Nashville. This year the event moved to what some saw as an unlikely city,. Continue reading
Complete Musician’s Guide To Preparing For A Publicity Campaign
By David Roberts is founder of Nashville consultancy the Sunshine Promotion company. He blogs at "Sunshine Promotion". I’ve touched on publicity briefly in other articles, but recently I had the. Continue reading
