The Brand Review: Big Sean (feat. special guest Jerreau of Fly Union)

The Brand Review is a bi-weekly web-series I’ll be hosting that critiques and analyzes recording artists’ overall brand package, brand partnerships, endorsement deals, lifestyle, and more.

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Music, The Distributed Economy

I am an Rdio premium subscriber (switched from Spotify recently), I also use SoundCloud a lot and… I still have to buy music from iTunes. It’s not that I like to own stuff but just sometimes it’s the only way to listen to what I want, like the recent release of Ludovico Einaudi, “In a Time Lapse” (which I highly recommend by the way).

Yes, “In a Time Lapse” is available on Spotify, still there is a lot of stuff which is not on Spotify but, for example, on SoundCloud. But that makes me think that there is some cool music which doesn’t hit SoundCloud and so on…

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"Muzeek" Booking Platform Revolutionizes Outdated Booking Process

Music Booking Platform Revolutionizes Outdated Processes

Muzeek and its “book button” take on paper trails, wasted time and green M&M’s

Bondi, February 26, 2013 -­­ Artists, venues and everyone in­between can safely write­off hours of unnecessary paperwork, days of back and forth emails and countless curse­ridden tirades aimed at a venue that didn’t pay or an artist that didn’t play, as Muzeek, the world’s most progressive, digital booking platform launches its website and the first and only embeddable “book” button to the music industry.

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Need help winning Joe Bonamassa's Blues Masters Competition

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.

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Digital Mixtape promotion, easy and beautiful

Re-caught  is a new and easy app that lets you create your own digital mixtapes from music you find on youtube. Whether you find music and want to remember and play it for your own or create mixtapes for friends as a gift. One thing that was important when designing re-caught was to make sure that tapes cannot be modified later on and are created anonymously. You don’t need to sign up or register to create mixtapes or play them ! 

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Author B.J. Mendelson Explains Why “Social Media Is Bullshit”

According the author B.J. Mendelson, they are full of shit. In his latest book “Social Media Is Bullshit,” Brandon is clearly on a mission to help business see through the hype and expand their online presence.

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Dance music production intro...

There are always new muscians taking their first steps into the realm of electronic dance music production and this covers the basic concepts which may initially appear confusing for someone starting out.

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30A Songwriter Radio LAUNCHED!

30A Songwriter Radio has officially launched. The website/blog features music, videos, venues, schedules, and classified for local musicians in the Northwest Florida area known as the “Emerald Coast”. The scenic Highway 30A is a hot spot for extremely talented musicians. Check out the website here: http://www.30ASongwriterRadio.com , let me know what you think!

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The Independent Music space is shrinking

Why is the Independent music space shrinking when the independent market is thriving?

Back in May of 2012 the Orchard; the largest worldwide digital distributor of independent music acquired fellow U.S. digital distributor IRIS Distribution, bringing further consolidation to the digital distribution marketplace after merging with the largest U.S. based independent music distributor IODA earlier in March of the same year. The merger came as no surprise considering that Sony had 51% control of IODA and had been courting the Orchard since early 2009.

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On The Importance Of Originality

The last worker adds less to output than the first.

This was the argument set forth by French economist Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781). Turgot believed that national wealth was created from agriculture. In the 1700’s this made more sense than now. Turgot developed an interesting theory that explained how the output of each extra worker changes as successive workers are added to a production process. It goes like this:

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The Forgotten Art Of Saying Hello, Spam In Today's Music Industry

Has the simple act of saying hello been forgotten in the frantic act of getting from here to there in the music industry? Often, it’s the musicians who get a bad rap for spamming…sending unsolicited mp3’s and so forth. But the problem is industry wide. Everyone wants something, but very few of us are actually communicating with one another….even to get what we want, which is ironic.

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Make your flyers and posters literally sing

Attention bands and musicians: we need your help! We are beta testing our new audio QR Codes called tokkers and we’re looking for bands and musicians to try them out (for free!) and give us feedback.

When people scan a tokker that’s printed on your flyer, they can instantly hear your music, see a picture of you, find out more about you and where you’ll be playing, share it on Twitter and Facebook, email it to their friends, embed it in their web page, call or email you, and link to your website.

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Zankme.com Launch - Helping Musicians to Easily Connect with Fans

San Diego, CA – February 19, 2013 – Zankme com, is putting a new spin on download cards with a simple way to help musicians connect with their fans. Zankme allows musicians to upload music, videos, photos or other digital media and immediately print custom download cards that can be sold or offered as promotional giveaways. Fans redeem the cards, and artists learn an array of information about their listeners including their email address and location.

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A possible alternative model of musical experience.

How can we make it a no-brainer for people to listen to our music? Mike Rubini suggests to facilitate the process of listening to music in terms of time, money and effort in order to structure future long-term behaviors, reduce barriers and create networks, spreading ideas and creating attention on music.

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