Band Files $30 Million Lawsuit Against Motley Crue After Paying $1 Million To Be Their Opening Act

After you've paid $1 million to get the support slot on the Motley Crue tour, isn't only fair that the road crew for the bad boys of rock refrains from. Continue reading

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Optimizing Your Band Website For SEO

For musicians who care about being discoverable online, having a website is critical, but simply building a website will do little to drive traffic to it. Here we review how. Continue reading

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5 Tips To Help DJs Play Your Music

If you're in the business of making music, there's a good chance you have, at one time or another, tried to get your music into the hands of a DJ, but. Continue reading

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THU. BRIEF: Streams Drive UMG Growth • Copyright Battle Looms • HologramUSA • Starset Soars • More

Thursday 11.10.16 Music Business News From Around The Web A Trump administration could undue net neutrality, stall copyright reform and discourage international collaboration and trade. Updated continuously under our More News tab

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Shazam To Add Concert Dates From Songkick

Fresh off their expanded roll delivering concert dates within the new and improved Pandora app, Songkick scores another victory with a Shazam partnership to deliver show information to the popular. Continue reading

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SXSW Accelerator Deadline Is This Friday

The deadline is looming for the 9th annual SXSW Accelerator Live Pitch competition. An incredible 71% of SXSW Accelerator alumni have gone on to secure a collective $3.1 Billion in funding. 

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Seymour Stein Reveals “Embarrasing” Deal Made with Madonna

In this piece, soon to be 73-year-old music business legend and discoverer of Talking Heads as well The Ramones opens up with marked frankness about his groundbreaking career, as well. Continue reading

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RIP Vine: A Guide To Using YouTube & Instagram To Promote Your Events

After three good years of providing us with six second chuckle fests, the shutters are closing on Vine, meaning it's time for DIY artists to turn to old standbys like. Continue reading

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Spotify’s Most Viral Tracks Last Week US, UK and Global

The most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it from Oct 28-Nov 3 via Facebook, Tumblr,. Continue reading

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Martin Goldschmidt On Cooking Vinyl’s History, Future [INTERVIEW]

After surviving an impressive thirty years in a decidedly volatile music industry, Cooking Vinyl owner Martin Goldschmidt sat down with the people at PledgeMusic to discuss both the history, and. Continue reading

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Pandora Gets A Makeover: Replays, More Skips and Tour Dates via Ticketfly and Songkick

Ahead of the launch of its on-demand streaming music platform, Pandora has unveiled a new web platform and features designed to please both users and advertisers.

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