Pretty Lights Debuts Single w/Talib Kweli, Announces First Physical Release & BitTorrent Promo
On Sunday EDM artist and hip hop producer Pretty Lights performed at Coachella and introduced his new single featuring Talib Kweli off his upcoming album "A Color Map Of The. Continue reading
Twitter Music: Musician Influencers Review App, Tech Bloggers Search The Code
Last week ended with No Twitter Music For You but "influencers" got to experience it so now you know you're not! Some of them, including Wiz Khalifa, The Glitch Mob. Continue reading
The Tools of Music Fan Engagement [Part 1]: Blogging
In a previous post I spoke about developing a strategy for fan engagement. One of the best tools that we encourage Bandzoogle members to use to engage with their fans. Continue reading
See.Me Includes Musicians, Adds Donation System To Artist Portfolios And Contests
Artists Wanted, a web portfolio platform featuring visual artists, relaunched in December with $1.5 million in funding and expanded to include other disciplines such as music. Recently, in its new. Continue reading
Hipset Relaunches As YouTube Network Including Rob Zombie, Tyga, Daughtry & Soulja Boy
The founders of Tracks.by, Matt Schlicht and Mazy Kazerooni, established themselves helping musicians such as Lil Wayne build their social networks. Now they've relaunched Hipset as the Hipset Network, a. Continue reading
Top 10 Ways Musicians Are Using Vine
Vine, the iOS app that allows you to take short shaky videos and loop them incessantly, has been a big hit. I've been a bit of a skeptic but it's. Continue reading
Creating A Timeline To Promote A Single Release
This repost from Caroline Bottomley of Radar Music Videos looks at the timeline for releasing a single. While her example is from the UK, most ot the concepts are universal. . Continue reading
Top 5 Ways To Spread Your Music
Being new to the music industry is not always the easiest time in an artist’s life, working hard to write songs, record and getting noticed. This doesn’t always have to. Continue reading
FanSource FAIL: Multiple Musicians Promote With Fan Content, Forget Concept Of Sharing [Updated]
Turning to one's fans for content is now a well-established practice both to involve fans and to generate content with a less polished, more human feel. Luke Bryan's rather simple. Continue reading
If Myspace Makes A Comeback, They’ll Do It One Artist At A Time & One Fan At A Time
Now that so many have written off Myspace, it remains to be seen what will happen to the media platform/social network. Recent interviews with Vice President of Content and Creative,. Continue reading
Music Marketing On Messaging Apps: New Social Networks Attract Millions Of Young People
Messaging apps with a variety of features beyond text messaging are emerging as popular social networks among young people around the world. In both Japan and Korea messaging apps are. Continue reading