Watch Steve Jobs Introduce iTunes Music In 2003 [VIDEO]
iTunes changed the music industry forever. As Apple celebrates iTunes 10th Anniversary, take a look back at Steve Jobs launching the iTunes music store with just 200,000 tracks in April. Continue reading
Teen Jennie Lamere Wins Hackathon, Demonstrates What We Lose Shutting Women Out Of Tech
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. At this past weekend’s TVnext Hack event, a loose consortium of geeks, hackers, and businessmen from the television and technology industries gathered in a. Continue reading
BitTorrent’s New Startup Acceleration Program Targets Music Discovery And Usage
BitTorrent continues its legitimacy offensive by debuting an acceleration program for startups in such areas as music/video discovery and usage as well as live streaming. It's not an accelerator where. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Why Modern Musicians Should Care About Metadata Chirpify Adds $2 Million In Funding, Signs Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg & Puma For In-Stream Social Commerce Think A Big Festival Play Can. Continue reading
Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. & Indie Music
Get More Fans Is A Mindblowingly Complete DIY Guide To The New Music Business Record Store Day Drives Impressive Sales Boost A2IM Announces Indie Artist & Label 2013 LIBBY Awards. Continue reading
The iTunes Decade As Celebrated By Apple, Mike Doughty & Industry Analysts Alike
Over the last 10 years iTunes has become the dominant force in digital music sales and has gradually moved from being a loss leader to drive hardware sales to become. Continue reading
Gig Poster Is Almost A Great App From SplitGigs
SplitGigs is a service designed to help bands find other bands to play at their gigs and vice versa. It's never really taken off in the States but they've recently. Continue reading
Amatorski Creates Beautiful HTML5 Toy From Song
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. You might not have heard of the Belgian band, Amatorski. Neither had we, but The Guardian UK called them “the best Belgian act around,”. Continue reading
Why Modern Musicians Should Care About Metadata
By Bill Wilson, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Business Development at NARM and digitalmusic.org. Metadata. It’s a jargon-y word that probably turns a lot of artists off at the. Continue reading