Samsung Debuts Gear VR With New Vevo Music Video Viewing Experience
Samsung today unveiled its Samsung Galaxy Gear VR, a mobile virtual reality headset, that Samsung is making it clear is intended as a media consumption device. Gear VR will initially. Continue reading
CD Baby Free: Direct To Fan Download Sales Even If You’re Distributed By Tunecore, Others
CD Baby yesterday launched CD Baby Free – a Bandcamp-like direct to fan music download sales tool that opens the company's popular indie music store to all artists – even. Continue reading
New Value In Trading A Song For An Email Address
With album sales, broadcast radio, and many other mainstream revenue sources for artists fading quickly into "has beens", we are being forced into a new era of networking & promotion.. Continue reading
5 Tips For Musicians On Maintaining Great Relationships With The Music Press
By Jamie Ludwig from the SonicBids Blog. For an independent musician, scoring coverage in a media outlet may seem like the well-earned reward in a long cycle of pitching and. Continue reading
CMA Awards Announce 2014 Nominees
ABC's Good Morning America hosted the announcement of the Country Music Association Awards 2014 nominees early Wednesday morning. Seven categories of CMA nominations will be announced on GMA at 10am ET today. Check back. Continue reading
This Is My Jam’s Slow Music Movement Gets Deeper And More Social
This Is My Jam has managed to develop from its core concept of picking one song at a time to share with friends (slow music) to something more complex without. Continue reading
DIY Tour Tips: Surviving The Long Drive
By Matthew Ebel who is currently Kickstarting a new album. I’ve played concerts all over the USA and there’s one constant that most touring musicians already know: People don’t know. Continue reading
New On Our Music Industry Jobs Board: Nielsen, Forty 6ix AM, Berklee, Blue Note, ONErpm & More
New on the Hypebot Music Industry Jobs Board is Sr. Manager, Business Development & Client Solutions at Nielsen and a Day-to-Day Artist Manager at Forty 6ix AM. There are also great job opening. Continue reading
PonoMusic Extends Crowdfunding Campaign, Neil Young Signs Pono Certificates For Christmas
PonoMusic followed a Kickstarter campaign for $6.225 million with an equity crowdfunding campaign that's already reached $7,173,700 in investments. Though they haven't updated the $4 million funding goal, they've extended. Continue reading
