Beats’ Daisy Gets $60 Million To Go Independent, Plus They’re Talking To Apple
The buzz around streaming music is heating up incredibly at the moment. Late last night Beats announced that they've received a $60 million investment for their Daisy music service from. Continue reading
Spotify and Backplane Add Music, Live Web Cast To SXSW Music Hackathon
Spotify and Troy Carter's social media startup Backplane are taking this year's SXSW music hack day to a another level with the edition of live performes. DJ Reflex, New York. Continue reading
How To Build Facebook Likes With Dropify [Case Study]
Guest post from the Dropify Blog. By the time indies saxophonist Reeves stumbled upon Dropify, he had roughly 1,700 fans on Facebook. His mixtape had already been promoted on several. Continue reading
The Game Of Music Discovery
Guest post by Marc Ruxin (@ruxputin) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. The wonderful thing about music is that there will always be another new band to love,. Continue reading
TheHub.fm Music Merch Management & Sales App Launches At SXSW March 8th
TheHub.fm is an ecommerce music merch startup featuring a mobile app that will be available in beta on March 8th. Bands can use the app to manage their merch inventory. Continue reading
Indie Musician Mandy Is Hacking Blindness And You Can Help
By Paul Lamere of Music Machinery. Meet Mandy. She’s a musician and a multimedia artist. She’s also losing her vision. She is on a quest – to push forward interfaces. Continue reading
Steve Gottlieb’s Video Chat Platform Shindig To Stage Online Events For Bands At SXSW
Steve Gottlieb is likely best known for his indie label TVT Records which was ultimately sold to The Orchard after 25 years of operation. Though he never truly went away,. Continue reading
The Turntable Kitchen’s Subscription ‘Pairings Box’ Continues Its Unique Path
By Knar Bedian of Evolver.fm. Most of us get our dose of new music on the interwebs, whether via streaming radio, blogs, blog aggregators, friends, feeds, label newsletters, or hybrids. Continue reading
How To Make The Freemium World Pay
Guest post by Alicia Yaffe (@thespllbndgroup) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. I saw a great tweet recently from a satirical Twitter account which said: “Welcome to the. Continue reading
Tips From John Vanderslice’s Kickstarter Campaign That’s $40,000 Over Goal
John Vanderslice is Kickstarting not one but two album releases, originals on "Dagger Beach" and a cover of David Bowie's album "Diamond Dogs," and he's already gone way over goal.. Continue reading
