Music Biz Blogs: Gateway To 75 Top Music Industry Bloggers
I recently updated Music Biz Blogs and it now includes headlines from 75 music industry bloggers who are all worth a look. It's a simple site combining a headline feed, a Google Custom Search Engine allowing you to search the included blogs and a link list of all the blogs. It's a great way to keep up with a wide range of sources many of them focused on news for indie musicians and DIY'ers.
Music Biz Blogs launched years ago. After quite a bit of neglect, I revived the site when I began writing at Hypebot and last week I updated it so that it now includes 75 bloggers.
The core of this simple one page site is a feed featuring headlines from all included sites with a sentence or two from each post. You can check the site for updates or you can receive a daily newsletter or use the RSS feed.
The feed itself is created using Feed Informer. The included sites can be searched using a Google Custom Search Engine created through Google AdSense.
Music Biz Blogs' sidebar includes links to all the blogs, a Flickr badge posting a few recent pics tagged "musicbusiness" and a Twitter widget featuring tweets from a short list of Music Biz Linkmasters.
I pulled or excluded specific blogs for the following reasons:
- inactive
- content jackers
- too many non-business posts
- too much company news
- excessively poor behavior
If you think your blog should be included or would like it removed, please contact Clyde Smith at:
clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com
Hypebot Senior Contributor Clyde Smith (Twitter/App.net) blogs about music crowdfunding at Crowdfunding For Musicians (@CrowdfundingM). To suggest topics for Hypebot, contact: clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com.
Thanks for including Passive Promotion!
It was long overdue.
Thanks a lot for the list!
Another great list would be a list of blogs that review independent music or write articles about independent artists. That would really help many artists.
I’ve been getting that request. Unfortunately I don’t know that space well enough to make such a list.
Also, they’d need to be genre-specific.
I am making some notes towards a post about blogger outreach and also a possible source for such info. I’ll try to do that sooner rather than later.
I would suggest checking out StereoGrid and seeing if their blog outreach resources are relevant.
They came out of the hip hop scene but I think they’re broader than that, however I haven’t looked behind the scenes since I talked to them a while back.
https://www.stereogrid.com/
https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/01/stereogrid-offers-unique-solution-for-online-music-promotion.html
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Cool. Please post more!
Also, feel free to be in touch directly about what you’re doing:
clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com
Wow! Great links in this article. Thank you so much. This is a great resource tool. I’ll be sure to spread the word.
I am so very happy that I found this site!!! Blogs have never really been my thing but I have had to step out of my comfort zone and create and review blogs based on my field in the entertainment industry for school. I wish I would have found this during my last class! Thank you so much!!!