A Music Critic Takes An Honest Look At His Own Profession
"If column inches translated into commercial success, the many young darlings of Canada’s contemporary indie-rock scene would be living like kings and queens." As the gap between what’s popular and. Continue reading
Zuzula Offers Artist Download Stores With No Upfront Costs
Newly redesigned Zuzula offers online tools that allows musicians to set up an mp3 download storefront without any upfront costs. From now until December 31st artists earn $.81 per song. . Continue reading
SongSpot’s Free Song Widget Teams With Blog Giant Typepad
Sonific has launched TypePad Music Widget which empowers TypePad bloggers to quickly and easily select any full-length track from Sonific’s large catalog of more than 50,000 songs, and instantly add. Continue reading
How Often Do We Over Hype? Marketer Seth Godin On The Dylan Broadway Failure
How often does the industry over-hype or just bring too much attention to an artist in a way that actually alienates audience and diminishes the "brand"? Marketing guru Seth Godin. Continue reading
Warner Believes In Video. Taps Brightcove. Who Cares?
Following its deal with YouTube Warner Music is further spreading its video content across the net via a new deal with Brightove. "Across WMG’s network of artist and label web. Continue reading
Flash Concerts Tour Marries Live Music And The Cell
Flash Concerts 2006 launches this month with free concerts in 10 cities across the United States featuring sponsored by Cingular Wireless and Sony Ericsson. This live music series uses text. Continue reading
Only Months After Payola Probe Pay For Play Is Back At Radio
Will things ever change? Just months after the major labels settled the NY payola probe, two Universal distributed labels (Blackground and the band Nickleback on Roadrunner) reportedly tried to influence. Continue reading
Music Nation Contest Draws Early Fire
Because we don’t like music contests, we weren’t thrilled with the launch of Clear Channel backed Music Nation’s talent search promising a major label deal but demanding $25 to be. Continue reading
Billboard Press Release Wire Launches
Billboard and Vocus, Inc. today launched Billboard Publicity Wire, an entertainment and music promotion press release service. Press releases will e indexed by major search engines and published on news. Continue reading
Worthy Click: CrackSpace – HipHop MySpace
We’re leary of any MySpace clones. But despite it’s horibble name Crackpace has an experienced team, exclusive content and fills an important niche. So maybe…It’s in beta ’til Nov. 1st.. Continue reading
