Perry Farrell’s “Ugly American” Attitude & How To Promote Music In Emerging Markets
Perry Farrell recently upset Brazilian music fans with a comment about their knowledge of music. Though this is bad pr for Lollapalooza's first run at Brazil, it also points to. Continue reading
Blood, Sweat + Vinyl: Documenting 21st Century DIY
Discussions of DIY and indie music often center around how to conduct business and build a livelihood without signing with a major label. However, as we all know, the DIY. Continue reading
Artspire: Making Crowdfunding Campaigns Tax Deductible, Eligible For Grants
Artspire is a newly launched crowdfunding platform that takes a different slant than sites like Kickstarter. A project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), this a web-based. Continue reading
Google Music To Help Independent Musicians. But, What’s In It For Google?
This post is by David Harrell who blogs from the perspective of a musican who self-releases music with his band The Layaways at DigitalAudioInsider. As a self-released musician, I was happy. Continue reading
Webdoc: A New Level Of Social Content Creation
Webdoc is an interesting new service that takes the Storify concept of mixing and matching web content to another level. It was the winner of the recent MUSIC techpitch 4.5. Continue reading
Final Day To Crowdfund Onyx Ashanti’s Amazing Beatjazz Cyborg
Onyx Ashanti, an artist and inventor based in Berlin, is in the final days of a crowdfunding campaign for the second phase of development for Beatjazz, his "quest to build. Continue reading
Blogger Criticizes Artists for Making Money; TuneCore CEO Jeff Price Responds
(UPDATED) Earlier this week, blogger Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News used isolated statistics obtained from TuneCore to prove an oversimplified claim that "99.875% of Tunecore artists are making less. Continue reading
The Profitable Artist: A Handbook For Turning Your Art Into A Career
Artspire, a web community that provides such services to artists as fiscal sponsorship and a platform for soliciting donations, recently released "The Profitable Artist: A Handbook for All Artists in. Continue reading
Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, Artist Zoe Keating, Manager Emily White & More On Direct To Fan [VIDEO]
Midem has crowdsourced a video asking prominent artists, managers and industry experts, "Why Direct To Fan?". Their answers present a collective argument for the almost unassailable truth that communicating with. Continue reading
FanBridge Adds Key Musician, Direct To Fan Services To Facebook Fan Pages
Last week FanBridge announced the Partner Ecosystem for their Facebook Fan Page app, an integration of service modules from 12 different companies offering everything from ticket and merch sales via. Continue reading
