Ex Live Nation Labs, Warners Exec Ethan Kaplan Joins Gracenote As SVP Music
Unsurprisingly, it didn't take digital music veteran Ethan Kaplan long to land well after the breakup of Live Nation Labs. Today Gracenote announced he's getting a prime office in their executive. Continue reading
New On Hypebot’s Music Industry Jobs Board: Night Owl Productions, Jamplify, Citrus & More
New on our Jobs Board are a music projects manager for NYC’s Night Owl Productions, a biz dev job at live music analytics leader Jamplify and a talent buyer for LA’s Citrus‘. Continue reading
iTunes Adds Indie Genre Page To iTunes Store
iTunes has been actively making changes to it's US store for quite some time. After catching heat for seemingly catering to major labels, one of the iTunes store's additions is an. Continue reading
Email Autoresponders For Musicians: How To Get Fans Engaged Right Away
Just about anyone who has music available is using the song-for-email strategy. If you’re not on board, basically you trade music in exchange for an email address. It’s a great way. Continue reading
Jay Z’s TIDAL HD Music Service Expands Globally, Launch Event Monday 3/30
Just days after Jay Z completed the purchase of music streamers TIDAL and WiMP, he's consolidated the brand under the TIDAL moniker, announced a global expansion and is planning a star. Continue reading
The Music Streaming Generation Gap [CHART]
We know that Pandora and Spotify are the dominate music streamers and one can guess that younger listeners use them and similar services more than older folks do. But just. Continue reading
Vinyl Delivery Services: Back to Basics in a Digital World
Streaming in 2015: very much happening. Streamable vinyl records in 2015: still very impossible. That’s where VNYL comes out of the gate with high hopes of becoming the "Netfilx of. Continue reading
What Is Jay-Z’s Radical Idea To Upend The Streaming Music Business?
Rapper and business mogul Jay-Z has an old idea that he’d like to try out on the new music business. Prior to the official announcement of his acquisition of the Swedish streaming music service Aspiro,. Continue reading
Personal Managers Name Hall Of Fame Inductees
Music managers have always been the quarterback of any artist's team. But in the new digital landscape, they're increasingly playing other important positions, as well. Now the National Conference of Personal. Continue reading
