Chamillionaire Goes Direct To Fans With Moontoast Store For Ammunition EP
[Update: See Closing] Chamillionaire is going straight to fans with his upcoming EP release Ammunition. To do so he's using Moontoast, a "social commerce platform" that recently raised $6 million.. Continue reading
MC Lars: How An Indie Rap Artist Makes A Living [CHART]
MC Lars beleives in giving his music away free. "In 2006, I read a book by Berklee College of Music professor David Kusek (and Gerd Leonhard), The Future of Music,". Continue reading
DJ Lazy Rich Develops Label Engine For Indie Record Label Management
Lazy Rich, a dj based in Vancouver, BC, is developing Label Engine to serve indie record label management needs via the web. Label Engine grew out of Lazy Rich's experiences. Continue reading
CEO Brent Siddiq On How Rhymesayers Entertainment Builds Indie Power
Rhymesayers Entertainment is one of the most respected independent labels in hip hop today. Cofounded in 1995 in Minneapolis by CEO Brent "Siddiq" Sayers, Rhymesayers went from establishing themselves while. Continue reading
Cash Music Needs Our Help To Build Free Open Source Tools For Musicians
Regular Hypebot readers know how excited I get about Cash Music. It's hard to imagine anything closer to what this blog is about than a non-profit group building free tools. Continue reading
Advertising Indie: Earbits Helps Bands Find Fans
Bess Rogers on Earbits Guest post by former Hypebot editor and Billboard chart manager Kyle Bylin, now content manager at LiveNation.com. It’s easy for bands to distribute their music,. Continue reading
Topspsin CEO Ian Rogers: “Direct To Fan is NOT a Rich Band’s Game”
Guest post by Ian Rogers of Topspin. On a panel at SF MusicTech on last week, I made reference to a fact we first published back in 2010: while the. Continue reading
Pomplamoose YouTube Fortunes Fueled by iTunes Sales & Licensing Deals [VIDEO]
Pomplamoose are navigating the treacherous waters of YouTube cover song stardom when one has dreams of being more than a cover band. Part of their approach is to record their. Continue reading
Apple Will Help You Create & Sell Multimedia Music Projects For The iPad
Guest post by Bob Baker of TheBuzzFactor. Apple caused a stir some weeks ago when it launched iBooks Author, a new free app that indie authors and book publishers can. Continue reading
Chinese Indie Artists Shanren Use RocketHub To Finance North American Tour
Formed in China's Yunnan province, Shanren fuses Chinese folk music from multiple ethnic groups with contemporary western forms. They toured Korea and appeared at midem in Cannes. Now they're planning. Continue reading
