Shazam Turns Grammys Into Green Driving 54,000 Music Purchases

Music and sound recognition app Shazam had it biggest night ever during Sunday night's Grammy Awards telecast. The company notifies its 10 million app users to tune in for exclusive. Continue reading

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Music Startup Dreams? Learn From These 51 Tech Founders Who Failed

Silicon Valley is said to have a culture that embraces failure as a learning process. But that doesn't mean you have to fail first before you can succeed. A recent. Continue reading

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Avoid An Overwhelming Flood Of Fake Fakebook Friending With This Easy Trick

We've previously discussed how services that sell fake Facebook fans have begun clicking Like on other fan pages so that their paid fake activities can elude Facebook's automatic filters. This. Continue reading

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Musicians: Skipping Time Management Is A Major Mistake

By Dave Kusek, former President of Berkleeonline and digital media consultant. His latest venture, the New Artist Model, is an impressive online course for musicians and others learning to navigate in the new. Continue reading

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CrowdTorch Combines TicketMob and Seed Labs For Live Event, Fan Engagement Platform

TicketMob, a ticketing and social marketing platform for music and comedy, was acquired by Cvent last year during a quiet period before their IPO in August. Cvent also acquired mobile. Continue reading

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SoundCloud Launches New Visual Player

Fresh off a $60 million funding round at a valuation of $700 million, SoundCloud has launched a visual player. The new embeddable player adds artwork and launches an improved version of SoundCloud's. Continue reading

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Indiegogo Raises $40 Million To Expand Crowdfunding Site

San Francisco based crowdfunding site Indiegogo has raised $40 million in Series B venture funding.  from IVP and Kelin Perkins.  Previous funding rounds had netter the startup $16.5 million. More. Continue reading

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Why Having To Constantly Hustle Is Bad For Artists

Subcribe to the Upward Spiral podcast in iTunes, play recent shows on SoundCloud, or follow us on Twitter.  In this episode of the Upward Spiral, a music business podcast, we. Continue reading

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Moby Continues “Innocents” Community Remixing At Blend.io After BitTorrent Success

Moby's release of an "Innocents" BitTorrent Bundle, featuring selected audio, stems for remixing and related content, was a hugely successful project for BitTorrent and resulted in lots and lots of. Continue reading

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Digital Music Content Farmer Matt Farley Rises Above Spam Label

When I first read about Matt Farley, who writes huge numbers of off-the-cuff songs organized around such themes as birthday greetings to a long list of names, it seemed like. Continue reading

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