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May 7, 2015 My team and I run an indie music blog that we’re turning into a streaming service & indie zine — sort of a digital love-child of MTV and Rolling Stone magazine. We’re doing everything radically different, starting with a financial model that makes digital work for artists (instead of the other way around).
May 28, 2014 Not only can you reach your fans with new tools like live online performances, but you can also add more money to your bank account by selling tickets for your live streaming events. This article reveals 5 crucial steps for engaging your virtual audience.
May 1, 2014 I am Nino Munaco, Editor and Blog writer for Ourtunez, the Music Network. Ourtunez is a free music streaming service that features Independent musicians. Any one can sign up, upload their music and instantly receive the benefits.
Your music will gain exposure through our website and app. New music discovery is missing in other music streaming services but Ourtunez excels in that department. Even our “mainstream” stations are full of independent artists who have signed up. They are being played alongside today’s (and yesterday’s) biggest artists. We even have a Comedy station where independent comedians can be discovered.
We are looking for people who want to be a part of this community of amazing artists.
Indepedendant Artist , Interview, Making money from music, Marketing, Music Industry, Music Industry Interviews, Networking, Online Marketing, Social Media, Technology, independent music, indie musician motivation, interviews, mobile music, music business, music discovery, music festivals, music marketing, music social network, music technology, musician, radio, social media for musicians, streaming, streaming music service, website | tagged Independent Music, mobile applications, music discovery, music streaming May 1, 2014 Have you ever felt like you were no longer in the loop when it comes to new music? “Have you heard Beyonce’s new song?!” “Did you get tickets for that gig?” “It went to number 1!”. None of us like to feel left out when it comes to the hottest new songs, the latest summer smash, or that killer album everybody’s talking about.
Here are a number of methods to stay up to date with the best music and most anticipated releases.
1. Social media
Following your favourite artists and bands on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook will ensure that you are constantly in the know about what’s out and what’s coming next. Artists promote themselves and their music this way as it’s the easiest outlet to connect with their fans.
Album Release, Digital, Dubstep, EDM, Electro, Free Download, Free Mp3 Download, Future Of Music, Heavy Metal, Hip-Hop, Indepedendant Artist , Latest EDM releases, Live Music, Music Industry, Music Reviews, Music Services, Music software, Networking, New Album , Online Marketing, Reggae, Rock, Social Media, Soul, Technology, Tips, Top 40, Tutorial, Twitter Promotion, World Music, YouTube, album, blogging, digital music, direct to fan, drum and bass, entertainment, fans, how to, independent music, mobile, mobile music, music , music discovery, music distribution, music technology, opinion, pop culture, r&b, radio, social media for musicians, soundcloud, streaming, streaming music service, the internet | tagged Radio, best of the newest music, discover music, discovering new music, facebook, music, music discovery, new releases, soundcloud, ssocial media, twitter, youtube April 30, 2014 By John Lahr
As of January 21st Spotify now has a legitimate contender in the music streaming market, as Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine’s Beats Music steps into the ring. It is the culmination of eighteen months of development after Dr. Dre’s lucrative consumer electronics company purchased MOG in July of 2012. Entering with a soft launch in late January, the service announced its arrival in spectacular style with a Super Bowl advertising blitz featuring T.V personality Ellen DeGeneres. While Beats Music and Spotify have many similar features, both services have very different views of the future of the streaming marketplace, and different ways of communicating their vision to consumers.
Features Comparison
Like Spotify, Beats Music offers a library of over 20 million songs to choose from, the ability to create playlists and sync them to your mobile device for offline listening, and a radio feature1. However Beats offers far more advanced features for discovering music thanks to its “Sentence” radio and “Just For You” curated playlists tailored to taste preferences you give when signing up.
Music Services, music , streaming | tagged Beats Music, freemium, music, music streaming, spotify February 19, 2014 Purify Media announced the release of PurifyArt.com, an ad-free service directly connecting artists and fans. A first of its kind, PurifyArt.com enables artists and fans to find and promote music, images and video on one platform, maximizing the revenue artists and companies receive for sharing and selling content while providing viewers one affordable, complete, and interactive online service.
.MUSIC Website, Artist services, Band Marketing, Content Marketing Strategy, Digital, Distribution, Funding, Indepedendant Artist , Live Music, Making money from music, Music Publishing, Press Release, Royalties, Social Media, Technology, app development, crowdfunding , digital music, direct to fan, e-commerce, fans, independent music, music , music art, music marketing, music promotion, selling, social media for musicians, streaming, streaming music service | tagged Technology, art, audio, distribution, eCommerce, music, promotions, publishing, sell, social, video, visual April 29, 2013 WASHINGTON, DC, April 29th, 2013 — UndergroundMusic.fm wants to make underground music mainstream. The startup has officially launched a new Internet service that provides a simple way to play and share underground music.
“It sounds paradoxical because it’s never been possible before,” says co-founder Max Acchione. “The underground has always been the source of musical innovation: blues, jazz, rock, punk, hip-hop, electronic, etc., and being inside it as it happens is exciting. It’s hard to experience because it’s so spread out and recording and distribution have been expensive. That’s why we have a mainstream in the first place. But today, the underground is thriving with affordable recording technology and it can be directly accessed through the Internet on ubiquitous devices.”
streaming | tagged music streaming February 27, 2013 Hello my name is Hollaman Lindsay and I am asking all of you to see if you can possibly aid me in my attempt to win Joe Bonamassa’s Blues Masters Competition. The first round for this contest is based off of viral popularity and how many views and shares your audition video gets, now I aint sayin that I cant generate that many views and shares because I dont have the talent, Its just that I live in Hiram Georgia and we got more stock in rakes then we do computers so its hard for me to find many people around me to support it. So I am inquiring you to see if you can help me get my name out there and get my audition video views and shares because if I can get past this first round and make it to guitar duals I think I got it made in the shade.
.MUSIC Website, Advice, Artist Development, Artist FYI, Band Marketing, Benefit Concert, Booking Agents, Breaking into the industry, Competitions, Contests, Crowdsourcing, DIY, DIY Artist, DIY Promotions, Endorsements, Feel good, Finding bandmembers, Free Download, Free Mp3 Download, Funk, Future Of Music, Gigs, Home Studio, Indepedendant Artist , Information, Innovation, Live Music, Music Business Jobs, Music Business Plan, Music Conference, Music Industry, Music Industry Crisis, Music Industry Interviews, Music Licensing, Music Management, Music Publishing, Music Reviews, Music Services, Music Strategy, Music Video, New Album , Online Marketing, Performance, Performance Coach, Practicing Musici, Promotion, Publicity, Radio Play, Realistic Music Careers 101, Recording Vocals, Reddit Promotion, Social Media, Soul, TEDx, The Business of Independent Music, Viral Growth, Web 2.0, YouTube, artist, awesome indie music, blogging, careers, crowdfunding , digital music, direct to fan, donations, email, fans, getting signed, independent music, indie musician motivation, mobile, motivation, mtt radio, mtv, music , music business, music discovery, music festivals, music mar, music marketing, music production, music promotion, music statistics, music supervision, music technology, music theory, musician, online music business courses, opinion, philosophy, practicing music, rant, record labels, recording, recording studio, social media for musicians, song, song pitching, soundcloud, sponsorship, streaming, sxsw, the internet, viral | tagged Blues, Guitar Center, Joe Bonnamasa, competition December 31, 2012 Everyone has heard so much hoopla about streaming and subscription services. Everyone has also heard of Lady Ga Ga . Well, here’s an article every musician needs to read http://www.good.is/posts/thieving-and-streaming-spotify-paid-gaga-167-for-1-million-spins-of-poker-face/
Lady Ga Ga had over a million spins on Spotify and was paid a whopping $167.00. So who does streaming benefit? It sure isn’t the artists who make the music. Spotify claims it’s loosing money. Since the inception of streams and subscription services, labels and artists have watched their digital income plummet into the toilet. Anyone know a good plumber to retrieve all those “would have been” downloads?
streaming | tagged music streaming, streaming December 5, 2012 As sure as dark clouds gather in hurricane season, a storm is brewing around artist compensation. Art and technology are at odds. However, it wasn’t always that way.
From the advent of cassette multitracks in the ’80s, to the arrival of digital multitracks in the ’90s, to the maturation of digital audio workstations in the ’00s, affordable, cutting-edge technology enabled recording artists to seize the means of production. The rise of the internet enabled them to marshal the means of distribution. Without those home studios, without a free internet, artists would still be trying to catch the ear of some well-connected impresario who could foot the bill for commercial studio time and old-media publicity. It’s a plain fact: thanks to technology, producing and distributing music is a lot easier than it used to be. And artists have reaped the benefits.
radio, streaming | tagged compensation, internet radio, pandora, royalties November 27, 2012 Cazzette is about to blow up, or at least that’s what one of the world’s largest streaming services claims. When their debut album Eject drops tomorrow, it will be marketed in full force by Spotify to millions of users worldwide. The major marketing push is really more of an experiment for the company to discover whether or not they can help break new artists. It just so happens that their first “experiment” is being done with one of the most hyped EDM artists of the year. Cazzette is a Swedish DJ duo consisting of 23-year-old Alexander Björklund and 19-year old Sebastian Furrer. They just wrapped up a 17-date September tour in the US and have received support from David Guetta, Tiësto, Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, and Martin Solveig to name a few. The underground success for the duo began a year ago when Cazzette released their first track, a remix for Avicii entitled “Sweet Dreams (CAZZETTE meet AT NIGHT Mix), which charted at the Top20 on Beatport Top100 General Charts for months. Soon after, their bootleg of Adele’s “Set Fire to the Rain” landed the number one spot on HYPE MACHINE Most Popular after being uploaded on their Soundcloud page.
EDM, digital music, music business, streaming | tagged 2012, Cazzette, Electronic, Music Without Labels, album, beam me up, debut, eject, house, music, new, spotify November 18, 2012 We’re proud to announce MOVA live, a brand new streaming audio/video platform based in Barcelona. We’re focused in new local talents and international residents at Gaudi’s City.
November 1, 2012 Hi,
This is rather a starting point for a debate than a post of knowledge.
I was wondering: There is a vast amount of piracy sites to download music and movies. There is also a vast amount of illegal movie streaming sites.
Why is there (almost) no illegal music streaming site? The only one coming to my mind is grooveshark but that’s basically it.
Piracy, streaming | tagged music piracy, music streaming, streaming October 29, 2012 The conventional wisdom among music technology theorists is that the traditional model of listening to music has changed, that music fans listen to streaming services like Spotify instead of buying music. I haven’t seen data or research to support that argument yet, only industry buzz, but I imagine it’s true for a strong minority of music fans. And industry data may support the trend as well; however my own, admittedly anecdotal, experience doesn’t.
