Music Business

Project Music To Conclude Music Tech Accelerator With Pitch Day

The eight startup companies selected for the Project Music tech accelerator have been undergoing rigorous business development and music business bootcamp in preparation for Pitch Day on April 23rd.

Nia R Jones on 03/18/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: 100 Hz, 44, Adaptive bitrate streaming, Album cover, American Society of Composers, Association of Corporate Counsel, Authors and Publishers, Bar association, Clarksville, Google, Nashville, Tennessee

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Senate Examines Songwriter Compensation In Effort To Determine The Worth Of A Song

Since May 2013, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet has undertaken a comprehensive review of the entire Copyright Act, including many issues of importance to musicians and. Continue reading

Guest Post on 03/18/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (2)

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How To Pretend You’re At SXSW 2015 – 7 Tricks & Tips

SXSW 2015 is underway, but perhaps you blew your budget buying Jack White vinyl releases. Or it could be that the chaise lounge by the hotel pool is so damn comfortable. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/18/2015 in Conventions & Awards | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Austin, Facebook, Find People, Foursquare, Mashable, New People, south by southwest, Streaming media, SXSW Interactive, Texas, Twitter

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Become Your Own Gig Booking Guru

Do you have trouble booking shows? Are you playing for the wrong crowds? Do you send email after email with no response? It's tough being an independent musician – booking your own. Continue reading

Guest Post on 03/18/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: 20th Century Fox, Atlanta, Austin, AVERT, Blu-ray Disc, Bob Dylan, Brad Montgomery, Bram Stoker, music industry, press kit, Texas

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Fezzee Introduces New Device-To-Device Technology For Festivals At #SXSW

Fezzee introduced FessMesh at SXSW as the newest addition to it's suite of event management tools that creates a device-to-device, ad hoc mesh network using mobile devices at festivals to overcome. Continue reading

Nia R Jones on 03/18/2015 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Barcelona, Cell site, Cellular network, Google, Hotspot (Wi-Fi), Mobile World Congress, Smartphone, Sundar Pichai, TechCrunch, Wi-Fi

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The Music Industry Says Farewell to Freemium

It is clear that the way we consume media is very different from 10 years ago. In the age of "freemium" music services like Spotify, who actually wins?

Matt Gibson on 03/18/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Ariel Rechtshaid, Dan Auerbach, Freemium, Grammy Award, iTunes, music industry, Patrick Carney, Spotify, The Black Keys, Universal Music Group

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Juno Award Winners 2015 – A Full List

Canadian dance artist Kiesza, Leonard Cohen and Alanis Morissette were among the artists to take home trophies at the 2015 Juno Awards.

Bruce Houghton on 03/18/2015 in Conventions & Awards | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Alanis Morissette, American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Album, American Society of Composers, Art Crawl, Artist, Authors and Publishers, Bobby Bazini, Bobby Braddock, Canadian Music Hall of Fame, Juno Award, Leonard Cohen

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The 4 Most Controversial Ways To Fund Your Music Career

You’re an artist! You can’t handle a 9-to-5 job. That’s a spiritual death sentence. So what are you to do? You need money to live in between your Spotify payments.. Continue reading

Guest Post on 03/18/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: (Everything I Do) I Do It for You, ABBA, Application programming interface, BandPage, BBC, iTunes, musiXmatch, Spotify, Symbiosis, United States

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Sony Completes $200 Million Purchase Of [Formerly] Indie Distributor The Orchard

Indie music and video distributor The Orchard is independent no more. A strategic investment by Sony just became 100% ownership and control.

Bruce Houghton on 03/18/2015 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Abu Dhabi Media, Academy Award, Aldo Vagnozzi, American Society of Composers, Artist, Authors and Publishers, Berlin International Film Festival, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bjørn Lynne, Bobby Braddock, YouTube

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Aykroyd & Belushi Launch A New Blues Label

The blues gets an important new advocate as Dan Aykroyd and Judy Belushi team up wIth Blue Note Records to launch a new blues label, Blues Brother Records.

Bruce Houghton on 03/18/2015 in Indie Music | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Associated Press, Blue Note Records, Capitol Music Group, Dan Aykroyd, House Of Blues, John Belushi, Los Angeles Film Festival, record label, Saturday Night Live (season 4), The Blues Brothers (Full Screen 25th Anniversary Edition)

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