Tips For Collecting Music When You’re Drowned In Sound
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Our pal Sean Adams of the music reviews and community site Drowned In Sound picked up on our frustration about how hard it is. Continue reading
CueSongs Partners With AudioSocket
Peter Gabriel co-founded CueSongs, a one-stop music licensing hub for online and digital media, today announced a partnership with Audiosocket. Audiosocket’s music catalog will now include CueSongs’ roster of established. Continue reading
Urturn Announces $13.4 Million Funding Round, Launches Mobile App
Urturn provides creative templates or “Expressions” for social media that shift the typical post and like exchange to an encouragement to take “your turn” and express yourself by combining audio. Continue reading
Could Flickr Become The Next Big Social Network For Musicians?
Yesterday's news that Yahoo is buying Tumblr is certainly big for musicians given the widespread usage of Tumblr for music blogs often as an adjunct to an official website. But. Continue reading
Please Find Lost Music And Return It Via The Web
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. The Legendary 'Disco Indian Stories' tape is not online and nobody seems to know where it is. It’s easy to get the impression these. Continue reading
New Report: Making Freemium Music Services Pay
A new free report from MIDiA Consulting by Mark Mulligan takes a look at some of the challenges facing freemium web services including Pandora, Spotify and Deezer. From "free being. Continue reading
Spotify Adds Most Viral & Played Charts, Track Counts
The rollout began several days ago, but now it's official: Spotify has added song play counts to every artist's top tracks, showing their total number of global plays since October. Continue reading
Lively Launches Concert Recording & Sales App
Launching today, concert recording and sales app Lively offers a simple way to record and sell live recordings immediately after the show. Available for Android and iOS, Lively is led. Continue reading
Potential Of Direct-To-Fan Realized By Few Bands
By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. Direct-to-fan marketing tools and services continue to hold a lot of promise. They enable artists to. Continue reading
The Pros And The Cons Of Google Play Music All Access Subscription
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. I set out this morning to built a chart listing the various features of the major music subscription services: Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify, and we. Continue reading
Soundhalo Turns Live Concert Videos Into Impulse Buys During The Show
Soundhalo is a brand new service for taking live concert video recordings and transforming them into mixed single song videos for immediate sale. It's an interesting hybrid that's currently being. Continue reading