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Why Wait For Google's YouTube Music Service? Stream It Free Now!
Mar 8Google and YouTube are working on at least one subscription music service to complement YouTube (free music videos) and Google Music (free music locker and download store). Our theory is that this is because some label(s) are pressuring Google into the music subscription space by threatening to withhold their music from YouTube. We think we’re right about that, in part because the kids already think YouTube is a music service anyway — it just doesn’t have a subscription tier yet. However,...
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Timbre App Offers Music Guide To SXSW, Now For Android And iOS
Mar 8By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. If you live in a place and you enjoy live music, you might enjoy Timbre. To find good shows near your place, you need simply fire up the app and start listening. You can skip around until you find something you like, and then it’s time to buy tickets. Last fall, we were impressed by Timbre for iOS, because it employs such a fresh, simple approach to finding shows. Today, just in time for the live music mecca that is SXSW, the app becomes available...
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The Music Biz Weekly Ep. #100: Nic Adler of The Roxy on the Importance of Social Media in Booking Gigs
Mar 8Download The Music Biz Weekly on Apple iTunes: http://itunes.thornybleeder.com The Music Biz Weekly, a weekly podcast co-hosted by Michael Brandvold & Brian Thompson. Each week we interview movers and shakers in the music business and discuss music marketing techniques for the DIY independent musician. This is our 100th Episode! Woohoo! First of all, thanks so much for all of your support and continued listens you guys, we totally appreciate it. We figured there's no better time like...
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New Music Games: TastemakerX [w/$1.25M new funding], Rockstar Rising, Bands, JuzzMusic
Mar 8A new crop of music games, some with marketing elements for indies, are launching this week. Rockstar Rising debuts at SXSW as does a new version of TastemakerX. Bands, a Facebook game, launched out of Berlin while JuzzMusic is a new iTunes app out of Singapore. TastemakerX has the edge in funding and longevity though they still seem to be iterating towards a winning approach while Bands seem to be the strongest debut. Aside from videogames like Guitar Hero, music has mostly done well as...
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Laura Marling Announces New Album, Once I Was an Eagle, Listen to "Where Can I Go?"
Mar 8Laura Marling: "Where Can I Go?" on SoundCloud. Laura Marling has announced details of the follow-up to 2011's A Creature I Don't Know. Her fourth album, Once I Was an Eagle, will be released on May 27 via Virgin Records (in the U.K. at least). It was recorded with Marling's regular producer, Ethan Johns, and continues the 23-year old's thing for six-syllable album titles. (Speaking of which, is that a Bill Callahan reference? Marling's a known fan.) That's the artwork above,...
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What New Facebook Music & News Feeds Mean For Your Band Or Music Venture
Mar 8By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Facebook reinvented itself again at a live event in Menlo Park, California on Thursday, where it announced “a new look for news feeds.” Perhaps having learned from earlier rollouts, which seemed to freak out Facebook habitues with the suddenness of the changes and occasionally privacy implications, Facebook adopted a “velvet rope” stance, in these early days at least: If you want the new version, you can join a waiting list. It all starts rolling out...
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AM NEWS BRIEF: Amazon & Apple Eye Used MP3s, Facebook Fallout, Bye To Bleeker Bob's & More
Mar 8Friday 3.8.2013 Music Business News & Views From Around The Web Click Here Updated Continuously Under Hypebot's More News Tab
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WHRH 024 | Pay To Play Sucks…License A Cover Song Instead
Mar 8Catch “Work Hard. Rock Harder.” on iTunes. Seth answers some listener’s questions about merch, licensing a cover song, and then launches venom against Pay-To-Play and pre-sale tickets. Show Notes Where to buy merch www.123Stickers.com www.StickerGuy.com www.eSigns.com www.totallybeerkoozies.com Experimental for on-demand testing CafePress Zazzle Use these to test merch ideas New haircut. (I hate it!) Give yourself a break from alcohol. Proper accounting on the road get...
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We want you to “Dream It” and “Do It!”
Mar 7In honor of our impending Music Mentor Contest launch, RenmanMB has a few words of wisdom for you, “Dream It. DO It!” That’s what the Contest is all about folks. We are going to re-introduce some of our old lessons for a lot of our new members, and this one is tried-and-true. It all starts with a Dream. Then, you got to PUSH yourself to make that Dream a reality, and you do that by just going out there and DOING it! All the wonderful guests we have had on our show were dreamers once like...
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Listen: New Merchandise Track "Who Are You?"
Mar 7Tampa, Florida band Merchandise have a new record, Totale Nite, out April 2 via Night People. Following the previously-shared sprawler "Anxiety's Door", the band has let go another cut, the harmonica-led opener "Who Are You?" That's the art, above, designed by Night People head Shawn Reed (who also plays in the band Wet Hair, touring with Merchandise this spring). The record was mastered by Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3. In support of Totale Nite and last year's excellent Children of Desire,...
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