REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Spotify, MTV/VH1/CMT Announce Major Partnership Ex-Google, SoundExchange Execs Launch Startup To Bring Gaming Revenue Model To Music How Some Managers and Agents Benefit From Piracy and Low-Paying Streaming Music Apple. Continue reading
Open Labs Releases Stagelight 2.0, Downloads Near 1 Million, Dell and Lenovo Preload Deals
Yesterday Open Labs released Stagelight 2.0, their music creation app for Windows that costs $9.99. It comes with a variety of new features, including an in-app store, and will also. Continue reading
Ex-Google, SoundExchange Execs Launch Startup To Bring Gaming Revenue Model To Music
Two respected digtal music veterans, Tim Quirk and Brian Calhoun, are joining forces to launch Freeform Development, a new music tech startup. Quirk recently left Google Play and before that was an executive at Rhapsody.. Continue reading
Senzari’s MusicGraph.ai Digs Deep Into Music Data With Analytics and Intelligence Algorithms
Senzari continue the evolution of their MusicGraph platform with the introduction of MusicGraph.ai at the Graphlab Conference 2014. MusicGraph.ai is both a dashboard for the music data and recommendations provided. Continue reading
Riffstation Play Displays Chords For Any YouTube Video But They Need Your Help
Riffstation creates software that gives you the chords for any song and offers a variety of related features to help you learn to play. Now they've launched a web app,. Continue reading
Feature.fm Track Promo Platform Exits Beta, Adds 8tracks Partnership: Try It FREE
UPDATE 2: Song promotion platform Feature.fm exited beta today, and with the unveiling comes an important new partnership with popular indie music discovery site 8tracks. Feature.fm inserts songs on targeted streaming radio. Continue reading
Sparkplug Helps Musicians Rent Gear and Space From Each Other [Updated]
Sparkplug is a new site and service that facilitates musicians renting gear and space from each other. But they go beyond just a Craiglist-like listing to add a system with. Continue reading
MusicPlay Analytics and LuckyPennie Join The Brandery Accelerator’s New Class
Cinncinnati's The Brandery is considered one of the top tech startup accelerators. They help startups in the early stages to further develop and seek funding. The Brandery just took in. Continue reading
Key Spotify Exec Exits
Chris Maples, Spotify's Vice-President of Europe has exited after three years. No reason for the change was given and Maples only says he's looking for his "next adventure". Maples was. Continue reading
New Music Messaging Apps From Soundwave and La-La Take Divergent Routes
Music messaging is kind of a weird space since people rarely send music as a message. Two mobile startups are taking what I think are the two main routes for. Continue reading
How To Reach The Best Music Business Contacts. Period.
What if you could reverse the sinking feeling you get when you send an email blast to hundreds of contacts that goes entirely unanswered? What if you were able to. Continue reading
