New Rules For Flying With Musical Instruments Should Make Touring Easier
Being on the road is hard enough, but having to figure out each airline's arcane and ever-changing rules for flying with musical instruments has made travel much more difficult for. Continue reading
Kickstarter Will Fund More Projects In 2012 Than National Endowment For The Arts
Fan funding platform Kickstarter is on track to distribute more than $150 million to creative projects in 2012. That's more than this year's $146 million budget for The National Endowment. Continue reading
Chamillionaire Goes Direct To Fans With Moontoast Store For Ammunition EP
[Update: See Closing] Chamillionaire is going straight to fans with his upcoming EP release Ammunition. To do so he's using Moontoast, a "social commerce platform" that recently raised $6 million.. Continue reading
MC Lars: How An Indie Rap Artist Makes A Living [CHART]
MC Lars beleives in giving his music away free. "In 2006, I read a book by Berklee College of Music professor David Kusek (and Gerd Leonhard), The Future of Music,". Continue reading
DJ Lazy Rich Develops Label Engine For Indie Record Label Management
Lazy Rich, a dj based in Vancouver, BC, is developing Label Engine to serve indie record label management needs via the web. Label Engine grew out of Lazy Rich's experiences. Continue reading
CEO Brent Siddiq On How Rhymesayers Entertainment Builds Indie Power
Rhymesayers Entertainment is one of the most respected independent labels in hip hop today. Cofounded in 1995 in Minneapolis by CEO Brent "Siddiq" Sayers, Rhymesayers went from establishing themselves while. Continue reading
Cash Music Needs Our Help To Build Free Open Source Tools For Musicians
Regular Hypebot readers know how excited I get about Cash Music. It's hard to imagine anything closer to what this blog is about than a non-profit group building free tools. Continue reading
Advertising Indie: Earbits Helps Bands Find Fans
Bess Rogers on Earbits Guest post by former Hypebot editor and Billboard chart manager Kyle Bylin, now content manager at LiveNation.com. It’s easy for bands to distribute their music,. Continue reading
Topspsin CEO Ian Rogers: “Direct To Fan is NOT a Rich Band’s Game”
Guest post by Ian Rogers of Topspin. On a panel at SF MusicTech on last week, I made reference to a fact we first published back in 2010: while the. Continue reading
Pomplamoose YouTube Fortunes Fueled by iTunes Sales & Licensing Deals [VIDEO]
Pomplamoose are navigating the treacherous waters of YouTube cover song stardom when one has dreams of being more than a cover band. Part of their approach is to record their. Continue reading
