How Music Can Help Veterans
The power of music in its use as a therapeutic tool has long been known, and when it comes to individuals who have experienced significant trauma (such as veterans) music. Continue reading
Ari Herstand On ‘How to Make It in the New Music Business’ In 2020
Musician and author Ari Herstand joins co-hosts Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert on the Music Biz Weekly podcast to discuss the playlist strategies, Facebook advertising and mushc more. Herstand has. Continue reading
Kobalt Founder Willard Ahdritz Shifts From CEO To Chairman
Kobalt Music Group founder Willard Ahdritz is stepping down from his post as CEO and into a new role as Chairman. Ahdritz will be succeeded by Laurent Hubert with the. Continue reading
On The Road With Pigface: Tour Management Students Take The Ride Of Their Lives
In this piece, rap music industry veteran Wendy Day recounts her experience taking eleven music business students on a sixteen day, sixteen city tour with industrial rock supergroup Pigface. Guest. Continue reading
Fender Pays Record $5M Fine For Price Fixing
Fender’s European business arm has been fined a record $5 million for price-fixing as part of a broader inquiry into the musical instrument business. The EU’s CMA hit Fender with. Continue reading
What Last Year’s Legal Decisions Mean For Music In 2020
In this piece, Erin M. Jacobson reviews some of the music industry’s biggest legal moments of 2019, both positive and negative, and what impact they’ll have on the coming year.. Continue reading
Grammy Winners 2020: The Full List
The 2020 Grammys began last night under the cloud of two weeks of Recording Academy scandal and in, as host Alicia Keys eloquently shared, the house that Kobe built. Retired. Continue reading
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Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. and Indie Music
This week, our tips and advice for the music industry’s indepent do-it-yourselfers covered the one thing more important than success, how to write more successful pitch emails, what expenses you. Continue reading
TOP POSTS: Last Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot
This week on Hypebot, some of our most popular articles covered how copyright maximalism is threatening pop music, how the ‘song economy’ is just getting started, Radiohead’s new ‘public library. Continue reading
This Week In Music Commentary
This week, music commentators weighed in on how women are still missing from popular music, whether or not artificial intelligence can do better than a human DJ, and why the. Continue reading