BUSINESS OF INDIE: Astral People Launches • The Orchard Revealed • Zebralution Acquires EMS • More
In this week's Business Of Indie, Indie label Astral People launches, The Orchard's Chief Operating Officer Colleen Theis tells all, distributor Zebrulation acquires its technical service provider Encoding Management Service. Continue reading
Sony Consolidates Records, Publishing Under Rob Stringer
Sony Corporation chief Kenichiro Yoshida has announced that the company will bring together its recorded music and music publishing businesses outside of Japan under the umbrella of Sony Music Group . Continue reading
Another Spotify Ad Under Fire: ‘Skip School, Skip Work’
Another Spotify ad is being criticized just days after the streamer drew fire for a campaign titled " 'Dance As If No One Is Paying" from artists and advocates who. Continue reading
The Magic Of Creating A When – Then Plan [VIDEO]
When it comes to the pursuit of your music career, it's guaranteed that not all your plans will come together – but having a backup plan in place when failure. Continue reading
SXSW 2020 PanelPicker: Just 3 Days Left To Submit
The deadline to submit proposals to the SXSW PanelPicker is this Friday. July 19th. This online process gives attendees a voice in conference programming including presentations, panels and at SXSW.. Continue reading
How Stephen Stills Converted An Unreleased Leftover Into Smash Hit “Southern Cross”
In this piece, Scott McCormick digs into the process through which the Crosby, Still & Nash song 'Southern Cross' was converted from a discarded leftover into a what ultimately became. Continue reading
Music ‘Trigger Cities’: Spotlight On Latin America
In this third part in a series exploring music "trigger cities", Jason Joven pf Chartmetric takes an in-depth look at Latin America's music consumption stats to explore how listeners there. Continue reading
3 Strategies For Reviving Cold Music Industry Contacts
If you've entered the difficult world of music PR, you've doubtless faced the bone-chilling silence which greets most of your pitch emails. Getting a response to your carefully crafted email. Continue reading
Woodstock 50 Loses Appeal, Richard Branson Pulls Support
For the third time, organizers of the Woodstock 50 festival had their proposal for a permit to produce the event at Vernon Downs race tack rejected Tuesday evening, this time. Continue reading
WAVE Raises $5.65 Million To Mix Music and Meditation
Breath, body, and beats could serve as the tagline for WAVE, the new subscription-based music-based meditation app and vibrating pillow that has launched with $5.65 million in seed funding. Investors. Continue reading
