New Low For Music: Paying Fans To Hear Songs
If I offered to pay you $35 to listen to my new single, would you consider? What if, instead, I offered you the chance to win the dollar amount—in exchange. Continue reading
The Music Consumer In The Modern World
This post is by cultural critic and essayist Eric Casero. We are all well aware by this point in time that the music industry is undergoing a process of massive. Continue reading
Bands Collaborating Instead Of Competing: Cross-Promoting With Headliner.fm
This blog re-post is by Hilke Ros (@colorlessgreen) at Music Music Manager. In my opinion, there is changing something in the economy because of the internet. Before the internet, it. Continue reading
Indie Sup Pop Considers Radical New Sales Model: Pay For The Toy And We’ll Give You The Music Free
From early Nirvana through Mudhoney and on to Fleet Foxes and The Postal Service, indie label Sup Pop has been putting out interesting and often fabulous music for decades. But. Continue reading
Linkin Park, Featuring You: Winning Song Chosen
Last week, I had the great opportunity to speak with Aaron Ray, who is a Partner at The Collective and Head of New Media. At the time, he was overseeing. Continue reading
NuMuBu: We “Empower” Indie Musicans & Stuff
If nothing else, NuMuBu, self-described as “The Music Industry Network,” certainly has some very ambitious goals going for it and, in theory at least, has orchestrated a semi-elaborate system to. Continue reading
Raising Kindie: The Golden Age Of Kids’ Music
At a time when the record and music industries are fraught with declining record and ticket sales, kindie music, described by John Campanelli as “children's tunes by independent artists with. Continue reading
ReverbNation and Ernie Ball Co-Sponser CMJ Music Showcase, Celebrate 750,000th Artist
In celebrating the 750,000th artist to register at ReverbNation, the indie music marketing hub and Ernie Ball have partnered up and are co-sponsoring a Music Showcase at the CMJ Music. Continue reading
Topspin Media Now Sells Tickets
Some might be privy to this if they follow either the developments at Topspin Media or the marketing efforts of Band of Horses, The Pixies, Eminem, and The Dandy Warhols,. Continue reading
Hugh MacLeod: “Treat It Like An Adventure.”
Cartoonist and author Hugh MacLeod, known most famously for his drawings on the back of business-cards, wry insights, and sometimes cynical humor, posted a short mantra that I found interesting.. Continue reading
