Guest Post:  Matt MacNaughton is the co-founder and CEO of Culture Jam which has launched several Twitter and Facebook applications that power viral promotions, allowing artists to distribute promotional content, host listening parties or enter contests in exchange for a fan’s post to their social networks.  Clients include Paramore, Imogen Heap, Moby, and The Used.
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Hip hop pioneers Public Enemy will partner with fan-funding site Sellaband to finance their next album. Public Enemy is one of the first established acts to sign up to Sellaband’s new custom funding program and aims to raise $250,000 for the album in $25 increments. Public Enemy was incidentally also one of the first [...]

Diddy x BlackBook. In an effort to promote their iPhone application, BlackBook magazine has teamed up with Diddy. According to Billboard, BlackBook has partnered with the hip-hop mogul to create Diddy’s BlackBook. The guide offers Combs’ favorite U.S. hot spots as well as editorial reviews of 15,000 shops, restaurants and clubs across 50 cities worldwide. [...]

With many bands now on the Twitter wagon, it’s time to really harness the power of using the little intricacies of Twitter to transcend the live experience.
One of Twitter’s most underused features is the #, or hashtag, that is used to signify an ongoing conversation or event. Today I was at IZEA Fest, a Social [...]

Digital distributor The Orchard pink slipped 20% of it’s staff as CEO Greg Scholl exited. Company moral and its stock both took a dive.
Twitter is testing a major new feature: Are you on The List?
FreeAllMusic.com – A new ad supported music site gets funding.
WMG is finally back on YouTube.  And YouTube responds
T-Pain sold 300,000 iPhone [...]

We all know the multi-million dollar music video budgets are a thing of the past, but talk about cost savings. Paul Wall’s  director for the single “I Need Mo” was able to convince the rapper to film the entire music video through an iPhone 3GS. Here are the results…Via:Rap-Up
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Sorry Hova but it looks like auto-tune aint dead. T-Pain and developer Smule have moved an impressive 300,000 of his iPhone auto-tune app for $2.99 each ( = $897,000!) and now they’ve added an amusing contest to boost sales further.
In data shared with TechCrunch, Smule pointed to an average user session of 66 minutes, and [...]

The music industry is stuck in a rut and it needs to make some radical changes if it wants to stop bleeding money, according to Forrester. The firm has several suggestions for how to overhaul music products and insists that they must be consumer-friendly, not business-oriented.
The music industry needs a “radical overhaul” to its products [...]

By share I don’t mean unauthorised downloads, rather sharing a link to a Myspace, Soundcloud or Bandcamp page. Essentially sharing is enabling someone else to access the same content you did.
1. You should make it as easy as possible for a fan to share and spread your music. Make sharing links simple and prominent. Not [...]

Free music on the internet is nothing to be scared of or feel threatened by. In fact as you will no doubt discover it can be incredibly valuable for all involved. We have reached a pivotal point where the cost of music distribution has fallen to a stage where we can effectively consider it to [...]