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REWIND: The New Music Industry's Week In Review

• Pink In Open Letter To Fans: "Kiss My Entire... Ass"
• RIAA Revamps Gold & Platinum Certifications: 100 On Demand Plays = 1 Sale
• Infographic: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) For Musicians
• Soundcloud Takes Off, Traffic Jumps 26%
• Rhapsody Adds Liner Notes: A 1st For Digital Music
• Jack Conte's Patreon Unlocks SuperFan Revenue Streams For Web Stars

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How Music Blogging Landscape Has Changed

By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank.

Music blogs are an interesting sector, one that continues to evolve with the artists that they cover. I have several friends and colleagues who know a lot about where music blogs came from and where they might be going. So I asked them this question: How has the music blogging and curation landscape changed in recent years? Talk about some of these changes and then bring us into present day. What does that landscape look like right now?

Watch This Ridiculously Simple Way That Vandaveer Uses Twitter's Vine To Promote Live Shows

DC based musician Mark Charles Heidinger and his project Vandaveer are known for an reflective alt-folk sound and memorable performances both here and abroad. For an upcoming show at the small but mighty Kirk Avenue Music Hall in Roanoke, VA (admittedly one of my favorite place to see live music), the band produced a ridiculously simple yet very effective 6 second video for Twitter's Vine.

Music Fest Debuts Beer Delivery Drones

It's all abut serving the fan, and small drones is the solution for one music festival. Set to make their first appearance at the OppiKoppi fest in South Africa, these flying drones will keep festival goers from leaving the pit just to wait in line for the next brew.

New Videos: David Bowie Gets "Explicit"? Jack Conte Goes "Completely Batshit"?

An assortment of recent music videos were promoted or described as having racy material but, despite a selection that includes the old guard, David Bowie, the young contender, Jack Conte, and a crowdsourced world of cursors, an air of disappointment reigns. Certainly no attempts here to shock anyone that doesn't have their shock button set on automatic.

9 Things YouTube Recommends Musicians Do That You're Probably Missing

A few weeks ago YouTube released a creators guide for musicians who use YouTube. There are a lot of points worth noting amongst those 40 pages. If you'd like to know more about to get the most out of your YouTube music experience but don't have time to do all the reading, check out the 9 highlights Jesse Cannon outlines on Music Think Tank.

YouTube Adds Paid Subscriptions With Just 2 Music Channels: Qello Concerts & Rap Battle

YouTube's new subscription channels, a cable tv for the web, launched yesterday with two music channels on board, Qello (HD concert films and music documentaries) and Rap Battle Network. They're two of the more interesting looking channels in YouTube's odd assortment that seems to be angling for Middle America. Hopefully we'll soon be seeing more music channels exploring this potential revenue stream.

Music Ad Watch: Wilco Drummer Glenn Kotche Makes A Faucet Commercial [VIDEO]

(UPDATED) In the new "Instumental Touch" tv ad for Delta Faucets’ Touch2O Technology, Wilco percussionist Glenn Kotche plays a a bevy of faucet  The spot shows of Delta's touch it and the water turns on and off faucet tech, but sadly, not much of Kotche's considerable skill.

Apple Completes iRadio Deal With Universal Music, Sony Stalls [REPORT]

(UPDATED) Universal Music Group has agreed to license it's catalog to Apple's iRadio streaming music services, according to reports. Apple has apparently dropped requests that it be charged a lower rate in exchange for a share of ad revenue, and opted for the .125 cent rate that Pandora pays, according the the Financial Times.

NEWS BRIEF: How Slacker Is Different, Amazon Audio Devices, Song Swapping Tech, Pirate Ad List & More

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Stock Market Remains Unfriendly To Pandora

By Kyle Bylin (@sidewinderfm), founder and editor of sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank.

I've never taken a strong interest in Pandora’s performance on the stock market, because I mainly write about music products and behavioral trends. What I've noticed, though, is how the company's IPO changed how media outlets talk about digital music services. Rather than talk about the product features or listener trends, people often talk solely about the viability of the business model and debate whether the company can survive in an increasingly competitive landscape. The stock market appears to dislike any moment that a new music service debuts, because it raises doubt that Pandora can succeed. Once news that Twitter planned to enter the digital music sector broke, shares took a plunge.

The Business Of Phish: Building A Tribe

A recent post on the Priceonomics Blog looked at "The Business of Phish" with a focus on the early years of Phish's steady development and the eventual emergence of Phish as an improvisationally-oriented jamband and touring phenomenon. Along the way they hit three touchstone concepts of contemporary tech and marketing that are well-illustrated by musicians at work.

RIAA Revamps Gold & Platinum Certifications: 100 On Demand Plays = 1 Sale

The RIAA today made a rare change to the formula used to certify Gold and Platinum awards to include on-demand music and video streams. Services that will now count towards certification include Spotify, Rhapsody, MOG, Muve, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Xbox Music, VEVO, MTV.com, YouTube and Yahoo! Music.

YouTube: Go To Discovery Source, Important Revenue Stream

By Frank Woodworth (@GlacialConcepts), Director of Business Development at Thrillcall, a concert discovery and ticketing platform for web and mobile apps.

The most interesting shift in listener habits to me is that YouTube has become the go to source for music discovery, and consequently an important source of revenue. In most of my conversations with labels and distributors YouTube is the number three source of revenue behind physical sales and iTunes.

Every Band On Spotify Gets A Soundrop Listening Room

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.

Soundrop, a Spotify app that shares a big investor with Spotify, says it alone has the ability to scale listening rooms up so that thousands of people can listen to the same song together at the same time, using a secret sauce called Erlang — a hyper-efficient coding language developed by Ericsson for use on big telecom infrastructures (updated).

BeatStars Seminars Offers Free Music Industry Advice & BeatStars Membership

BeatStars, a retail and services site for beatmakers and producers, is hosting a series of free BeatStars Seminars on the web next week from May 13 to 17. Topics include distribution, live events, music creation, marketing and label operations with a variety of speakers. Hypebot readers can also have a free trial of BeatStars membership.

20 Tips For A Kickass Musician's Facebook Page

Nic Robertson is the managing director & co-founder of Jaden Social, a creative Digital marketing agency based in Sydney, Australia. You can connect with Nic here - @nicjrobertson.

Good old Facebook. It seems like everyone knows how to use it these days; from those mischievous 10 year olds brazenly lying about their age in order to sign up, to the new breed of highly intelligent super-pets who’ve managed to set up their very own profiles, complete with a neatly cropped selfie, and then ever-so-casually added all of their owners’ friends.

Will Twitter #Music Grow From Artists Tweeting About Their Placement?

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.

The nicely-designed Twitter #Music app for iOS made a big splash when it was released a couple of weeks ago, quickly becoming the most popular music app in iTunes.

Indie Artist Ian Moore Bundles His Own Song-A-Day Service

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.

Austin, Texas-based guitar-slinger Ian Moore had a problem that no company in the 2013 digital music ecosystem could solve: He simply wanted to sell a song each day for 30 days as a package deal, with fans naming their own price for that music. He suggests $30, but you can pay whatever you want for the music offered in this ongoing experiment, until June 22.

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Chromatik Raises $5.7 Million For Digital Sheet Music

Digital sheet music startup Chromatik has raised $5.7 million of an $8.8 million Series A founding round, according to an SEC filing. Funders include Rustic Canyon Partners in the lead role, along with Plus Capital, Baroda Ventures, 500 Startups, and rapper/actor Will Smith.

Blue Note Records Partners With ArtistShare For Fan Funded Releases

Iconic jazz label Blue Note is partnering with music crowdfunding platform ArtistShare to create a new record label devoted to recording and releasing a new generation of jazz artists. Under the arrangement, UMG owned Blue Note will be involved in the selection of artists, add its logo and promotional support to the release, and if response warrants it, upstream the artist to the official Blue Note roster.

Dave Mathews Band Digital Marketer Jason Judy Joins Fame House As COO

Dave Mathews Bands' digital project manager Jason Judy is joining  entertainment marketer Fame House as COO.  Judy started with the band 8 years ago, after a stint with Mathew's Red Light Management firm's direct-to-fan arm Musictoday. He'll relocate from Charlottesville, VA to Fame House HQ in Philadelphia.

Jack Conte's Patreon Unlocks SuperFan Revenue Streams For Web Stars

Jack Conte, known in part for his role in Pomplamoose, yesterday launched a patronage platform called Patreon that's designed to connect content creators with patrons. It's an interesting hybrid that combines elements of subscriptions, pledging and tipping and reconciles them with the sometimes erratic creative schedule of any working artist.

Prediction: Apple, Google Finally Launching Subscription Services Will Be A Game-Changer

By David Dufresne (@DavidDufresne), CEO of Bandzoogle, a website builder and marketing platform for independent music artists.

I think when Apple and Google finally launch subscription music services (or partner up with an existing one), and bundle them with each iOS and Android device sold, this will be a huge game-changer. It will definitely be the tipping point towards massive adoption of on-demand music access, and it will accelerate the downfall of music ownership.