Louis CK on Direct Music Sales

Comedian Louis CK has weighed in with a status report on the first four days of his experiment with independent, DRM-free video distribution. CK spent $170,000 recording live performances consisting of previously unaired material ("every new generation...

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SYNC UP- SUCCESS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS?

Kristin Hersch from throwing muses, George Howard, co-founder of tunecore and Peter Hinberger, manager of Dr John talk about making music from sync-ups - music licensing, why people feel they still  need a major label to make it big and whether it is actually possible to make money from sync-ups - that is music on TV or film. Sync-ups seem to be the hot topic in music conferences - and the...

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Live Dubstep Wobbling using Synapse for Kinect

An Exciting new Kinect hack from Synapse - the ability to manipulate live dubstep basslines by movement: They explain how it works belo...

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How much does a hit song cost? $1,078,000

Yup - that's right $1,078,000 - well, according to NPR.  "In this case it was Rhianna's "Man Down" - a big budget, blockbuster-style blowout that remains unproven" - so writes http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/ But is this a surprise?  It's...

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Needs Moar Sausage: Vst Review - Dada Life's Sausage Fattener

On test this week:  Dada Life's Sausage Fattener VST. When i first saw the video for Dada Life's VST plug-in  "Sausage Fattener" - i wasn't entirely sure if it was a wind-up or not.    Dada Life - the production team behind...

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Webdocs - complete with Soundcloud integration

Soundcloud announced as part of their soundcloud lab, integration with webdocs - an online document storage facility where pictures and sounds can be imported and hosted and then made into transferrable widgets like the one shown above.  As well as being embeddable on other platforms like tumblr, blogger or you own webspace, it also features neat little app integration such as the twitter one...

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Are Record Labels Dinosaurs?

 image c/o http://digiboydesigns.com/  With the rise of social networking and direct to fan advertising, most people seem to think so.  But former EMI CEO Tony Wadsworth at an address at the Great Escape Conference seems to think the opposite: "Record...

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How to get your music onto Beatport

If you make dance music then the chances are you've heard of "Beatport". In their own words:  "Beatport is the recognized leader in electronic dance music downloads for DJs and club music enthusiasts."  Whilst certainly not the largest online...

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Soundcloud announce "Labs" - app functionality through Soundcloud

Earlier today Alex, founder of Soundcloud announced the arrival of Soundcloud Labs - a new site dedicated to applications based on the Soundcloud platform. Launching SoundCloudLabs (phone message) by Alex The announced applications so far include: Social Unlock - a reciprocal social network application similar to tweetforatrack.com whereby users can download a track for free in return for a...

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Soundcloud Secrets: When to follow people

Soundcloud secrets - when to use following and when not to. at My car by The Always Unprofessio...

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How to create a Facebook Fan page for your band using Root Music

As you probably are well aware, the ubiqutous facebook is currently the king of the social network – at least in the western hemisphere. It is increasingly being used as a method for connecting musicians and bands directly to the fans. But until recently...

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Topspin vs Bandcamp

On Peter Kirns excellent "Createdigitalmusic" blog he interviews elecotronica artist Tricil regarding their experience using Topspin Media and comparing it to Bandcamp. Bandcamp’s charm when they came out in the post myspace-era was an embeddable,...

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Are Music Subscription Services the way forward?

 The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) seems to think so.   Spotify announced that it's free subscription service wouldn't be quite as free anymore with 20 hours listening reduced to 10 hours - what impact does this have on musicians...

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The state of Social Networks - 2011

From Bobby Owsinksi's great blog Music 3.0: Here's a very interesting info-graphic from Ignite as sourced from Google Insights that describes the current state of social networks. As you can see, interest in social networking seems to have flattened...

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Is everything popular wrong?

The Independant Label Market is being held in London today and again on the 21st May.  This seems to coincide with "National Record day" which is apparently to celebrate the vinyl format.  The NME has written somewhat cynically...

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NPR, the music powerhouse?

The Washington Post details the growing influence of National Public Radio in the USA.  It is now second only to MTV in terms of visits per month. Record labels are gradually waking up to the importance of NPR music.  But as the audience...

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An experiment in Musiconomy

Found this great post on Sound-unsound, a forum for emerging artists and bootleggers which i'm reposting here: "Releasing music is like the dirty dishes when you're living with roommates—if everyone just did their own, there would be no drama!" -MC Owl Now I know it would never be like that, and that there's plenty of music being released drama-free to the benefit of all parties involved, but...

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