The Week In Music Commentary

Disconnect Your Music Service From Facebook NOW, Says Beats Music Exec' Ian Rogers What Social Media Is Doing To Music (Hint: It's Not Good) Why Federal Policy Matters to Musicians. Continue reading

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Disconnect Your Music Service From Facebook NOW, Says Beats Music Exec’ Ian Rogers

Former Topsin CEO Ian Rogers wants everyone to disconnect their music service from Facebook right now. "If your music service is currently barfing every track you play to Facebook, turn. Continue reading

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Topspin SVP Moz Moves To Twitter To Head Music [OFFICIAL]

UPDATE: Moz's move to Tiwtter was confirmed in an email to Topspin stakeholders. Bob Moczydlowsky, until recently the popular senior vice president of product and marketing at Topspin Media, has. Continue reading

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Highlights From Nashville’s Leadership Music Summit and Evan Lowenstein’s Keynote

Yesterday I attended Nashville’s Leadership Music Summit, an event that brought together a diverse array of stakeholders in Nashville’s future with a special emphasis on music and entrepreneurship. I could. Continue reading

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Beats Music: Daisy Gets A Name, Hiring More Staff

The Jimmy Iovine, Ian Rogers, Trent Reznor run music streaming service codenamed  Project Daisy finally has a name: Beat Music The company – a $60 million spin-off of Beats Electornics. Continue reading

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Beats Music Jobs Posts Offer Hints, Suggest Delayed Daisy Launch

13 job postings by Beats Music for engineers and designers based in San Francisco appear to point to a delayed launch for the Ian Rogers run music streaming service tentatively named. Continue reading

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Late To The Party, Iovine In Talks To Launch Beats Daisy Music Service With AT&T

It's not often that Interscope head and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine is late an important party.  But when it comes to streaming music, Iovine and Beats' yet to launch Daisy subscription. Continue reading

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Ian Rogers Hacks APIs To Produce Beastie Boys vs. Trent Reznor Music Hotline

Nestled among a number of interesting hacks from this weekend's SF Music Hack Day 2013 was a combo of APIs from Twilio's cloud-based voice and messaging service and Topspin Media. Continue reading

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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

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Ian Rogers: Instead of SOPA, Here’s How To Combat Piracy While Encouraging An Open Internet

Guest post by Ian Rogers of Topspin Media. Last week's Internet-wide SOPA/PIPA protests divided the Internet between content owners looking for stronger anti-piracy tools and technologists who believed the proposed. Continue reading

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