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Bandcamp Just Got Hella Better: Rolls Out Physical & Digital Bundles

As if Bandcamp wasn’t already badd-ass enough…they just rolled out a dope feature.
Via the Bandcamp blog <— Click to watch video demo
Once more into the Bandcamp mailbag:
“I like your service but want to add some physical copies, and it would be really nice to use your interface to sell these items so I don’t have two different [...]

[ More ] November 15th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

The Rewind (This Weeks Digital Music News)

Ask indie musician and self-promotion queen Amanda Palmer a question.
Topspin’s Ian Rogers share details of his experiences as amanager.
Traffic has jumped at Lala and iLike since the Google partnership.
MySpace Music may limit bandwidth and start charging.
“Wire” Producers To Bring Record Industry To HBO. Who Should Play The Roles?
Live Nation And Ticketmaster Both Beat Analysts’ Pre-Merger Expectations.
Are Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter [...]

[ More ] November 15th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

Shakira To Debut New Music Video Via Ustream/Facebook

International music star Shakira is taking a new approach to releasing her latest music video: she’s doing it through a live stream on Ustream, which will be emedded on her Facebook Page. According to Sony, this is the first time an artist has used the platform to debut a music video (Updated: Sony is wrong. Chamillionaire [...]

[ More ] November 14th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

DO THIS: Crowdsourced Song Created by YouTubers

Wanna make a hit song? The ’standard’ way of doing it is learning to play an instrument, finding a couple more musicians, practice, create some songs, find a publisher…
…or you can scrap all that and let the YouTube community do the entire work for you. I’ve Got Nothing is a song that’s been entirely crowdsourced. A [...]

[ More ] November 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Food For Thought |

2 Tricks of the Trade: How To Write Emails With Hooks

This guest post comes from Jason Kadlec of Kadlec Consulting. As one of the first Topspin Certified consultants, Jason provides the advice and assistance needed to create and implement direct to fan businesses for artists and brands.  You can follow Jason via his blog or Twitter.

Today I was emailing with a musician who had sent me a better than [...]

[ More ] November 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Guest Posts |

Why Your MySpace And Wikipedia Pages Are More Important Than Ever

MySpace is over. Traffic is falling. Google’s new enhanced music search has pushed my Wikipedia entry further down the page. Why should I care what a bunch og geeks write about me anyway, right? Wrong.  First, both MySpace and Wikepdia still get massive amounts of traffic; and to the degree that you can control anything [...]

[ More ] November 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Food For Thought |

Bob Lefsetz on Spotify & Music Streaming “Ownership is for Pussies”

Ownership is for pussies.
Oh, don’t e-mail, you same people who said we should save the album.  Notice what a few years do?  Radiohead says no more albums, Rush the same thing.  So, when your favorite acts give up on the long form format, don’t you too?
I know you do.  Because you’ve stopped sending me hate [...]

[ More ] November 9th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Guest Posts |

The Rap-Up (This Weeks Digital Music News)

The Orchard’s shares doubled on stock buyout news.
Did Qtrax tell another lie? Search deal with Baidu may be  less than claimed.
Falling traffic at MySpace will mean $100 million less in ad payments from Google.
MobBase introduced a d.i.y. music iPhone apps. But with 100,000 apps will it get lost?
iLike & MySpace offer free tracks to promote new enhanced Google music search. [...]

[ More ] November 8th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

Weezer’s New CD Will be Bundled with An Official Snuggie

Yes, this is a real product. River Cuomo told Rolling Stone back in May that he and his Weezer bandmates were in talks to produce an official “wuggie” version of the body blanket that’s been dominating off-hour tv commercials in recent months.  Now River’s dreams have come true and Snuggie is producing a special edition [...]

[ More ] November 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Food For Thought |