Once again Bob Lefsetz rubs salt into established music business’ wounds. In his letter from July 6th he talks about the rules for musicians, new and old music businesses today. You definitely have to read it.
Jurjen, a friend since the time when SellaBand had its better days, has sent me over a review about a Spanish fan-funding platform. And here it comes … In the summer of 2010 I joined AUAMUSIC.COM as a fan…
I know I promised to publish a Weekly Radar every week … but it turned out to be a little bit difficult to find the time every week. I will write it as regularly as possible. First I’d like to introduce PickTheBand.com to you, a so called fan run label. Sponsored by a big headphone
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Started a few weeks ago I’d like to continue the Weekly Radar and keep on publishing it in the future. Artists: Gruff Rhys … Drownedinsound.com did a fine interview with him. BOA … were featured in several music magazines and blogs: French YIN Magazine, Dutch Hunting Ensemble, … hopefully more in the future. Music Think
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Tim Bennett wrote down a few guidelines for indie artists – read carefully and maybe it will help you to get your music to the people.
Today I’m going to start 50K MUSIC Weekly Radar to provide you with the latest news about independent music and (fan-funding) music business in a nutshell.
Independent Music got a huge boost with this year’s Grammy award for Best New Artist as unsigned artist Esperanza Spalding beat out the well-know artist Justin Bieber, as well as the high-profile artists Drake and Florence & the Machine. Living in Los Angeles, the home of the Grammy’s, I caught a story on one of
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About two weeks ago I introduced Crowdbands.com here on 50K MUSIC. After publishing the post I got in touch with HQ and asked Peter Sorgenfrei, co-founder of Crowdbands.com, about the concept and their further plans …
Over the last few weeks Pledgemusic attracted attention with projects of some well-known musicians like Cornershop, Dave McPherson and The Subways. I asked them for an interview and Benji Rogers, one of the co-founders, provides us with a deep insight into Pledgemusic’s corporate philosophy…
Just discovered a new crowdfunding site on the net. Crowdbands.com tries out a whole new approach to crowdfunding or more precisely to fan involvement. On Crowdbands you can decide almost everything what musicians should do or not do, e.g. which songs will appear on an album, who should be partners for album production and a
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Today you may have read the story by OK Go’s Damian Kulash about “The New Rock-Star Paradigm”. Damian tells us us about the future of music business and how musicians can succeed without the big labels. Interesting read so far. Bob Lefsetz seizes this suggestion in his newsletter. In his post about “Today’s Music Business
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The last few interviews on TalentCast were with artists who had just released their albums. For the latest edition, they have interviewed a well-known SellaBand believer, Lucretia. Lucretia keeps a blog where she comments on SellaBand artists, SellaBand as a whole and independent artists in general. In the latest interview, they talk to her about
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A few days ago Lucretia drew my attention to Weloveyoursongs.com. So I checked it out and it looks quite promising, I think. But I am not really sure what to think of this brand new service for independent musicians. I can’t figure out how the support for indie music should work. So I asked them
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As every month Lucretia (aka The Knifelady) writes her sharp analysis of what’s going on in SellaBand world. Don’t miss to read her October Roundup.
You’ve missed the radio show of Talentcast last Saturday? No problem, just listen to it here. In this weeks show you can listen to Kalika, Adams Dream, Erinn, Radaid, H.C. Turk, Monika Evans (formerly Monika Thomas), Irene B, Szlikk, Simeon, Infinitus Mortus, EXoluta, Tiffany Gow, Tim Bennett (formerly Civilized Tears) – read his album update
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(by Catself) This week the TalentCast Song of the Week winner is the recent winner of the Amadeus Austrian Music Award, KONTRUST, with their famous Bomba! Apart from the Song of the Week, there is of course lots of other music in our programme – you will hear some very relaxing jazz from France, British
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In the past few weeks, TalentCast interviewed a few artists who have just released their albums funded on SellaBand. This time they have interviewed an artist who is just finishing working on her debut: Natalia Safran. Natalia is a successful model and actress, but music is her biggest passion and she is working hard on
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In about one hour the new radio show of TalentCast will be online. This edition again offers a selection of different kinds of music from all over the world: TC starts with a band from Mexico that has just toured Europe, then moved to Los Angeles, Australia… TC travels through different places and styles today.
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After a long summer break, TalentCast is back with its radio show tomorrow at 5 p.m. CEST sharp. The new edition will start with a new DJ: Johan Jongerius, the TalentCast founder himself, will take over the presentation after MissY left the team two months ago. A few SellaBand artists released their albums while TalentCast
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In February this year Michael Bogatzki took over the job as the new SellaBand CEO. Since the New SellaBand has started he had to solve a number of problems. After his first 100 days it was time to ask him a few questions.
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