CASHmusic.org: FREE Twitter, Facebook & User Interface App Codes for Musicians

Through a very random string of website links, I somehow ended up on the website of non-profit organization, CASH Music. This group of incredible musicians and individuals believe that technology should never get in the way of promoting, distributing, or enjoying great music. To help bridge the gap for musicians that may not be as tech savvy as Zoe Keating, CASH Music recently released three INCREDIBLE downloads of free php code that musicians can use to make their websites a better experience for their fans. If you don’t have an official website to represent yourself/your band, these free code downloads are an EXCELLENT place to start, in my opinion. Even if you’re official website is just one page, utilizing these codes will make that one page extremely engaging and interesting.

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Get It Together (or what the music industry can learn from Chanel)

The experience that your audience has is the most important thing to focus on. If you are a promoter you have to figure out how you are going to give them the best experience. If you are a band you are going to play your best and give your fans the best experience you are capable of. If you are a DJ you are probably going to get requests. If you are a nice person, you are going to play those requests if you can because it will give that person who asked to hear Lady GaGa or Beyonce a good experience.  

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U2 360 Tour

The Rocking band U2 will headline the main Pyramid Stage on June 25, and will be joined by Snoop Dogg, Nelson and Dizzee Rascal. The rocking band U2 along with Wonder will be making their first appearance at the 40th anniversary of the festival which will be held at Worthy Farm in Somerset on June 23-27. The Irish band’s appearance was already announced last November.

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What about MySpace?

A while back, I created a Friendster page.  It was great!   I found all kinds of people, and then, actually, maybe it wasn’t all that great.  Their platform never evolved and the novelty wore off.  Hot on the heels of Friendster came MySpace.  Suddenly I had friends, and I could connect with bands, and leave cool comments on their pages, and listen to music, and it was pretty sweet.

Then a stripper named Tiffani tried to be my friend.  Followed by Shawanda, Aimee, and jUnIque.  Then a whole bunch of random people in Guatemala said they knew me.  And wow, there’s a LOT of ads on my MySpace page.   And what’s with all this spam?

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Collaborative Music Licensing for Co-Writers

Online music collaboration and licensing - made easy

Notethrower.com Overview Tutorial from NoteThrower.

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inPassing in the Studio with James Paul Wisner

Orlando, Florida based band inPassing is back in the studio again with World Famous Producer-Extraordinaire, James Paul Wisner (Paramore, Dashboard Confessional).

The upcoming EP is slated for a Mid-Summer release and it is anticipated to surpass the 12,000+ sales unit mark on their previous effort.

For more information on the band, please visit www.myspace.com/inpassing

Rob Figarola, Restless Music Group - robert@restlessmanagement.com

Online music licensing for films, tv series, commercials: here's Have a Sync

Have a sync (www.haveasync.com) is the new tool for music licensing, designed and managed by Bixio Publishing Group. It allows directors, advertising agencies, music consultants to find the perfect music for films, documentaries, commercials, TV series and other audiovisual productions. The research is intuitive, fast and efficient, thanks to the innovative Sync Cloud system. All the tracks on Have a Sync are available in full-track streaming. For most of the tracks, the licenses can be purchased directly online for both  publishing and master rights.

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Future Now Pt1: The Folk Who Live On The Hill

As a result of a slightly intense email exchange with Andy ‘Hobbes’ Richardson, DJ and promoter of, amongst other nights, the consistently smart Limbo nights at Edinburgh’s Voodoo Rooms (together with partner Dave Cumings) I felt inspired to explore just how I really felt about the music business.  The exchange was triggered by a small review on my blog of a talk given, on the day of Malcolm Maclaren’s death by Gavin Blain, a Scot who faked an identity as an American rapper in order to scam a major label record deal and has recently released a book about his experiences.  My view was that he appeared to be ungrateful and unnecessarily harsh about the Sony employees he hoodwinked. 

This is what Andy thought, though: ‘perhaps McLaren’s death has coloured your interpretation of (the talk) but i see the death of the arch manipulator as heralding a new dawn, the beginning of a more genuine and authentic music industry with less cynicism and more integrity all round….i see Gavin Bain equally as a harbinger for this change.  his bitter-sweet experience emphasises the need for more authenticity and underlines the soulless vacuum offered by (more or less) anything else. ‘

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8 Cures For Lyric-Writer's Block

Lyric writing can be a frustrating, nail-biting, paper-crumpling experience. Getting just the right words to tell a story and convey emotion while conforming to the cadence and rhythm of a musical piece can be a harrowing exercise in patience. Here are 8 tips to inspire and help you get through the roughs spots in lyric writing.

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Star on the Rise- Jesse Clasen

Check out a live acoustic video of Jesse Clasen from Harvard playing “what we had” acoustic from their debut

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Crazy Like a Fox

I just wanted to be the first person to promote Sugartown (the banb) while they only have 16 plays (so far) on YouTube.  Remember this post in 2013.

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I keep getting turned down by Lables/ cause I sound Beatlesque? and I'm older

Wow. If Susan Boyle walked into a major lable they would laugh her out of the place! But Look what she and her team did. She sold here Whole CD. Not jus a 99cent download,, Peace JJM

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On The Efficacy of Flava Flav

Flava Flav is a fascinating case study in the psychology of fans. He’s credited with popularizing the role of the hype man in rap groups, yet often gets unfairly hated on for this role because it appears “simple” and “pointless”. This is incorrect. Flava Flav had a profound effect on improving Public Enemy.

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The (Current) Limits of Kickstarter

A quick look at why the Mountain Man Music Fest, a Kickstarter-seeded music festival, is having trouble reaching its goal of $65,000.

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