Saturday, 7 August 2010
Metropolis Records’ Dave Heckman speaks on whose got it right - artists or musicians?
In interview, R.J. Preece—a self-confessed Front Line Assembly addict, a band which is represented by Metropolis—interviews the entrepreneur behind the music label. (While typing the interview up... FLA’s Unleashed on Artificial Soldier plays in the background...)
Read More Here:
http://www.artdesigncafe.com/Metropolis-Records-Dave-Heckman-music-art-2010
Also check out their interview with Cabaret Voltaire's Stephen Mallinder who we'll be interviewing for his opinions on the current state of the music industry in an upcoming article.
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Aspects Of The New Music Reality
Music 3.0 - The Blog Behind The Book: 5 Aspects Of The New Music Reality: "During lunch with a friend today, he passed some scenarios by me for breaking a new act. One of the things he said seems to be what's now seems to be accepted industry knowledge, although I believe the logic is faulty.
"We're going to do vinyl and digital downloads but skip the CD. They're done." After discussing for a while what he was going to charge for the items, I told him my feelings on the matter.
"We're going to do vinyl and digital downloads but skip the CD. They're done." After discussing for a while what he was going to charge for the items, I told him my feelings on the matter.
Interesting July Music Stats
Music 3.0 - The Blog Behind The Book: Interesting July Music Stats:
"Digital music information and strategy company Music Alley puts together an interesting monthly report called NumberCrunch that includes somthat includes some interesting statistics culled from information sources like NPD, Forrester and Neilsen/Soundscan. Here are a few points that I found interesting (my comments in italics).
"Digital music information and strategy company Music Alley puts together an interesting monthly report called NumberCrunch that includes somthat includes some interesting statistics culled from information sources like NPD, Forrester and Neilsen/Soundscan. Here are a few points that I found interesting (my comments in italics).
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Free online mp3 hosting...
So you've written your magnum opus. You've spent a long time recording it, mastering it, sweating over how it sounds and now you need to get it out there on the web. You can either purchase some webspace and build your own webspace or use one of the many free mp3 hosting or distribution services.
Why host on a third party website and not your own space? The main advantages are:
- Free - you don't have to pay hosting charges to an external company.
- Bandwidth - 1000 downloads won't impact on your own bandwidth keeping those costs low.
- Website integration - usually the hosting companies have some way for people to embed you songs on their website.
- Social networking - some of the sites such as soundcloud are integrated social networking sites in themselves allowing listeners to rate, download or connect with artists directly through the site. You can mass mail followers and allow people to comment - enhancing your social currency.
Itchy Clips - Other avenues for artists
Recently Producer Sneak-thief and Stewart Walker have announced the creation of a new project - Itchy Clips. Itchy clips is a web portal / community designed to sell Ableton Live files for aspiring remixers and DJ's.
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Trent Reznor: What to do as a new / unsigned artist
In September 2009 Trent Reznor writing on the NIN forums outlined his thoughts on what unsigned bands should do if they're hankering after success in the internet age. We're using this to inform the different avenues and outlets we'll be looking into in the coming weeks. We'll also take a look at the different distribution methods and guerilla marketing techniques.
Here's what he had to say:
