Last Week On Music Think Tank
Where The Music Industry Thinks Out Loud Jonathan Ostrow: Why Music Should Never Be Given Away For Free. Bruce Warila: Eight Recent Social and Technical Phenomena That Are Making Your. Continue reading
REWIND: The Music Industry’s Week In Review
Help in the process of redesigning a national booking agency. Nacy Baym talk on changing relationships, changing industries. Now you can buy Twitter followers, but will any become true fans?. Continue reading
Judges Reduces Tenenbaum File Sharing Fine 90%
In a major setback for the RIAA and the major record labels, a federal judge today cut the $675,000 damages award against Joel Tenenbaum for downloading and sharing 30 songs. Continue reading
Help Redesign A National Booking Agency
Background & Creative Allies Design Contest As you may know, the parent company of Hypebot and Music Think Tank is the boutique national booking agency Skyline Music. This summer Skyline. Continue reading
Glenn Peoples: The Freemium Debate
In response to an article in the Guardian on Clay Shirky and his opinion on news paywalls, Glenn Peoples over at Billboard has written a great summary of how the. Continue reading
GigsWiz: Facebook Application Released
GigsWiz has released a Facebook Application. Through it fans can make concert requests in Facebook for the bands and artists who are registered users of the GigsWiz platform. The application. Continue reading
YouPhonics: Jam With Anyone, From Anywhere
This month, YouPhonics will help you jam with anyone, anywhere, at any time; from your old bandmates to your favorite artists. No longer will you need to live near their. Continue reading
Why Music Should Never Be Given Away For “Free”
Over at our sister blog Music Think Tank, there are two new posts up. One is from Chris Bracco, editor of Tight Mix, on how to track the results of. Continue reading
More Music Industry News: Cheaper Tickets?, YouTube Revamp, End Of iPod Era & More
The End of the Road?: The concert business, a lone bright spot in the struggling music industry, is in trouble this summer. A tale of bad backs, canceled acts and angry. Continue reading
MySpace Music Is Burning Money, Possible Subcription Service In The Works
Before the end of the year, MySpace Music, having "underachieved" with regard to revenue goals, is considering launching paid subscription service. Sources say they are in need of moving to. Continue reading
