One of my favorite things about the emerging new music industry has been the realization that there is no longer a single best way to do much of anything anymore. That pioneering spirit is leading to wonderful experimentation including this... Continue Reading »
Pandora Hits Holiday High Thanks To Mobile
"Xmas day was twice as big as our previous high... Def a sign of the growing footprint of devices/mobile." - A tweet from Pandora founder Tim Westergren early on Monday morning. Less than two weeks ago the online music service... Continue Reading »
10,000 Sonicbids Members Get $4 Million From SoundExchange
Nearly 10,000 Sonicbids members got holiday presents in the form of $4 million from SoundExchange. The two companies partnered to identify indie artists using the Sonicbids electronic press kit system that are owed unclaimed digital performance rights. SoundExchange is a... Continue Reading »
EMI Launches iTunes Only Greatest Hits Campaign
EMI Music has launched a Greatest Hits album campaign exclusively on iTunes. Through January 11th the price drops to $7.99 on: * The Band: Greatest Hits (Capitol/EMI) * David Bowie: Best Of Bowie (Virgin/EMI) * Duran Duran: Greatest (Capitol/EMI) *... Continue Reading »
More Music Industry News: Facebook, CD Baby, Guy Hands, Predictions, Van Halen, eMusic & More
A sneak peak at Facebook's coming redesign. (Gigaom) CD Baby's Music Discovery Podcast has been named by iTunes as one of 2009’s best podcasts. A weekly series highlighting songs from a wide variety of genres, the songs played in Music... Continue Reading »
Artists and the Economic Recession
LINC partnered with 35 arts service organizations across the U.S. to administer the survey to 5,380 artists between July 20 and August 17, 2009. I found most of the results to be suprisingly familiar to the ones I’ve heard piece meal from my clients last year, however this is the first time I had seen such a complete report from a cross section of people like you – struggling artists clammoring for ways to survive and become more profitable in 2010. Continue Reading »
R.I.P. Vic Chesnutt
Visit Kristen Hersh's tribute and family donation's page. Continue Reading »