A2iM Libera independent music award winners 2023 – The Full List
The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) announced the 2023 Libera Awards winners on Thursday night during a ceremony at Town Hall in New York City. Here is a full. Continue reading
Touring industry responds to Live Nation’s ‘all-in’ ticketing pledge
The touring industry reacted cautiously to Thursday’s White House announcement that Live Nation, Ticketmaster, and SeatGeek will at least partially adopt an “all-in” model that displays the full cost of. Continue reading
Live Nation, Ticketmaster, SeatGeek to shift to all-in ticket pricing
[UPDATED] President Biden hosted executives from Live Nation and other companies at the White House on Thursday afternoon to highlight progress on his State Of The Union pledge to end. Continue reading
Spotify tests AI playlist cover art tool
Spotify is testing a tool that uses AI to enable users to create custom artwork for playlists on the streaming platform. Spotify’s new tool, AI Playlist Art, analyzes a playlist. Continue reading
How indie artists can promote music on SoundCloud
SoundCloud is a great platform to get your music heard by new fans, particularly for certain genres. Here are some tips to get started… by Randi Zimmerman of Symphonic Blog. Continue reading
QUICK HITS: Tim Devine joins Sunset Blvd Records • Soundtrack Your Brand adds $15M • Soundsurf
Veteran music exec Tim Devine, whose career includes Bonnie Raitt’s Capital Records comeback, discovering Brandi Carlile, Train, and others has joined Sunset Blvd. Records as Head of A&R. Devine has already signed Everclear,. Continue reading
Meta’s MusicGen AI trained on 20k licensed tracks, but how good is it?
Meta claims their AI ran music generator MusicGen brings a safer and copyright-secure option for creators. what Bobby Owsinki test drove it offers this review. by Bobby Owsinski of Music. Continue reading
Get royalties in advance with RoyFi
Today’s Indie Spotlight shines on RoyFi, one of a handful of startups on a mission to give artists the financial support they need to get their creative projects off the. Continue reading
Music Publishers hit Twitter with $250M Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
The National Music Publishers Association representing 17 major and independent music publishers, has filed a major federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter for failure to license and pay for music. Continue reading
Indie Distributors, Spotify & Amazon form Music Fights Fraud taskforce
Spotify and Amazon Music have joined forces with independent distributors CD Baby, TuneCore, their respective parent companies Downtown and Believe, DistroKid, Symphonic, EMPIRE, UnitedMasters, and Vydia to form Music Fights. Continue reading
