Our friends over at Hypebot recently published the Indie Maximum Exposure 100 by music marketing guru Ariel Hyatt of Ariel Publicity and her friends as a pdf.  It was a collaborative effort, bringing  together a team of industry experts who, like Ariel, are in the trenches with independent artists every day. Her dream team included Derek Sivers(Sivers.org), Jed Carlson and Lou Plaia [...]

Google’s new enhanced music search was the big news of the week.  But is it really a game changer? Watch video interviews from the announcement and take it for a test drive yourself to find out.
Major upgrades at Topspin?
EXEC SHUFFLE: Cameo Carlson was named EVP Universal Motown Republic plus changes atTunecore and EMI.
Facebook now accounts for 6% of all [...]

SeeNow is a dope website that allows you to create those old timey “face-in-hole” pictures so popular at county fairs, hay rides, and correctional facilities. The concept is simple: you upload, link to, or take a picture of your face and then put it into a series of clever situations or onto the faces of [...]

Ustream has just started to roll out a new feature for its live video streams that allows commenters to syndicate their thoughts across four of the web’s largest social sites: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and AIM instant messenger. The feature will go live for Featured shows beginning on Monday, and everyone else will have access soon [...]

Lil Jon x The Official Soundboard. After the big time success of T-Pain’s iPhone app it was only a matter of time before we saw this. Lil Jon has officially launched his own iPhone app called “The Official Soundboard” which basically just plays famous Lil Jon soundbites.
Press a specific phrase on the app (as shown from [...]

I’ve already shared with you The 10 Commandments of Music 2.0 , now here are the 7 Deadly Sins of Twitter.

1. Gluttony (Over-Sharing)
Do not, I repeat do not over-share. Do you really want to know about someone else’s digestive problems? I didn’t think so. When you went into graphic detail about your gastric flu did [...]

“While writing this, I attempt to avoid quantum events. Quantum events are one in a million events that have been responsible for launching many music careers. However, they are akin to buying lottery tickets. You don’t quit your job and just buy lottery tickets. Believe it or not, that is exactly what most artists do when they make an album [...]

Talk about a new marketing tactic. If this were any other artist it would be considered pretty morbid but since this is Lady Gaga we are talking about, well….it’s fitting. Iovine and friends over at Interscope have announced the official Lady Gaga re-release of her album Fame Monster with a deluxe version priced at a hefty [...]

Currently, if you want to share a Pandora station or song with a friend, you have to email it to them. Last time I checked, this isn’t 1994. Tonight, Pandora is joining the 21st century with the addition of simple ways to share stations and songs on Twitter and Facebook. And it’s further emphasizing a feature [...]