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# Overheard #SFMusicTech “Why Work With Labels?”
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/overheard-sfmusictech-why-work-with-labels/
- Published: 2010-05-18T05:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-05-18T05:13:00.000Z
- Description: By all accounts yesterday's SF Music Tech gathering was filled with the usual stream of cutting edge ideas and information. Here are a few of the highlights: @indiequick: Best question. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/05/overheard-sfmusictech-why-work-with-labels.html]
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By all accounts yesterday's SF Music Tech gathering was filled with the usual stream of cutting edge ideas and information. Here are a few of the highlights:

- @indiequick: Best question of the day: **"Why work with record labels?"**
- **@BenFolds:** “10 years ago we all seemed to know what was coming next and that is why it came to an end.”
- @ZSAZSAINC: "Take away from #SFMusicTech Summit Music Marketing – According to NYU study, **Artists who blog sell 3X as much product** as those who don't."
- @mmasnick: "Michael Robertson says record labels are failing due to **10 years of not innovating & killing off innovators.**"
- @SCRehearsal: "I put my money on Tim Westergren **@pandora to save the music industry** and indie artists.
- @rhizomatic: "**The more you are on twitter**, the higher you are on the Google."
- Dan Scheinman from Cisco: "What's next (in music) is out there. **It's not that far away.**"