Chinese Indie Artists Shanren Use RocketHub To Finance North American Tour
Formed in China's Yunnan province, Shanren fuses Chinese folk music from multiple ethnic groups with contemporary western forms. They toured Korea and appeared at midem in Cannes. Now they're planning. Continue reading
NEWS BRIEF: RIAA/IFPI vs. Google, Megaupload Less Guilty?, ICM, Twitter Ads You Can Afford & More
RIAA/IFPI Explored Possible Lawsuit Against Google For Not Ranking iTunes Above Pirate Bay. (Techdirt) Is Megaupload "a lot less guilty than you think? (ars) ICM has not renewed the contracts. Continue reading
ShareSquare Offers Quick & Easy HTML5 Mobile Sites For Musicians, Bloggers
ShareSquare, once known primarily for its mobile QR Code campaigns, has expanded its services to offer an HTML5 mobile website creator. Basically ShareSquare detects content and design elements on your. Continue reading
The Four P’s of Playing Live Shows
It takes hard work to put on a good show. On Music Think Tank, Dave Cool takes the Four P’s concept in marketing and applies it to playing live shows.. Continue reading
LyricFind CEO Darryl Ballantyne On Geographic & Digital Expansion
LyricFind recently announced a partnership with The Echo Nest to bring lyrics to the Rosetta Stone Platform and also announced global licensing agreements with all four major music publishers. I. Continue reading
SESAC Is For Sale, #3 U.S. Performing Rights Firm Could Fetch $500 Million
SESAC, the for-profit alternative to non-profit performing rights collection organizations ASCAP & BMI, is for sale. A number of marquee artists including Bob Dylan and Lady Antebellum use the company. Continue reading
Music Meets Tech At Unique MTV O Music Awards Unboxed Events
The O Music Awards is a music and tech oriented event from MTV that happens twice a year. Now event organizers are adding to the year's schedule with Unboxed, an. Continue reading
The Week In Music Apps: YouTube MP3s, Local Music & Sexy Sax Man
By Wren Leader and Connor McKnight of Evolver.fm. We have some ground to make up in this latest installment, which is really more like “the past three weeks in music. Continue reading
A Bright Future For Music Tech: Lessons Learned At SF MusicTech X
The number ten is quite a symbolic number, representing the start of a whole new order of numbers, and the culmination of the numbers that came before it. The number. Continue reading
NEWS BRIEF: ReDigi Slams Capital & Rdio, Google $4 Sale, Spotify Said No To Adele, Tunecore & More
MP3 Reseller ReDigi Has Accused Capitol Records & Rdio of Sabotage (Wired) Rdio is now blocking song samples from ReDigi. Google continues its lower price push with dozens of $3.99. Continue reading
