Connect with fans

I think we all know that Trent Reznor has done some very cool things for his fans on his own, without a label. Here is a video case study from midem that consolidates all of his efforts into one presentation. What I find most mind boggling is the amount of money he’s made from these [...] Read more »

Vook. I can see this being really big with bands.

This is a great product that I can easily see being both a marketing tool and a full digital version of a body of work for bands. For marketing it could be a 3 song demo+Bio and pics or an entire album with full artwork. Either way I think it has great potential for getting [...] Read more »

Kutiman Killed the Video Star

From TechCrunch.com If you haven’t heard of Kutiman yet you’re about a week late on the latest music sensation to be incubated on the Web. Ophir Kutiel, aka Kutiman, is an Israeli musician and producer that released a project titled Thru You on the Web seven days ago. It has since garnered over a million [...] Read more »

Social media anyone?

I’ve been on a social media kick lately and I’m realizing that this thing isn’t going away. I’m not talking about social networks like Myspace, Facebook or Ning. I’m talking about Social Media, i.e. USTREAM, Tumblr and, of course, Twitter. Over the past several months I’ve discovered that the simplest of ideas make for very [...] Read more »