Toad the Wet Sprocket, Luscious Jackson Reunite Via Power of Kickstarter and PledgeMusic
Toad the Wet Sprocket is putting out their first album in 16 years and they did it with Kickstarter's help reaching fans who supported their request for $50,000 by pledging. Continue reading
Music D2F Sales: reKiosk Partners With The Orchard, ShopLocket Launches Preorders
Direct-to-fan sales and ecommerce are key tools for building an independent music career and the options for online and mobile sales continue to improve. The Orchard is now experimenting with. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
It Takes More Than Metrics To Understand A Musician's Audience David Byrne Takes A Sharp Yet Despairing Look At Spotify, Streaming Music and Musicians Pinterest Drives More Site Traffic Than. Continue reading
Last Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
It Takes More Than Metrics To Understand Your Fans David Byrne On Streaming 4M Spotify Trax Never Played SFX Stumbles, EDM Wins Bob Lefsetz & The Long Tail Google+ Musicians. Continue reading
Marc Ecko’s 10 Rules For Building A Swag Bomb
Marc Ecko recently released a new book called Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out.Oddly enough, while it's full of awesome Marc Ecko stories, its organizing concept of the Authenticity Formula. Continue reading
Moogfest Returns In 2014 With New Music Tech Conference and 5 Days Of Music
Moogfest is a music festival in Asheville, NC created by the folks at Moog Music. Sometimes referred to as an electronic music festival, Moogfest has included such towering figures as. Continue reading
SFX Stock Continues Downward Tumble
It has been a good week for those hoping to cash in on the EDM boom. Just a week after launching it's IPO at $13, SFX Entrainment (SFXE) stock fell. Continue reading
SXSW 2014 Pass Discounts Expire As Accelerator Startup Showcase Deadline Nears
Today, Friday October 18th, is the last day for another round of SXSW badge discounts. You can register here. And it's not too late to showcase your music tech startup,. Continue reading
Music Marketing With Paper.li’s Digital Newspaper
Paper.li got its start as a digital news aggregator powered by tweets on Twitter. With a default news site layout, Paper.li still uses the term "newspaper" but has added numerous. Continue reading
What Music Fans Want From Subscription Services w/ Jon Maples — Upward Spiral Podcast #30
In episode 30 of the Upward Spiral, digital music veteran Jon Maples talks about his decade long tenure at Rhapsody and what the future holds for the subscription music company.. Continue reading
3 Critical Steps For Musicians To Build Fan Engagement
C. Vincent Plummer ( @cvpmusic ) is a Musician, Co-Founder, & Social Strategist for Bedloo. Over the years, I've sat at a lot of breakfast tables with local musicians recapping. Continue reading
