Is TweetMySong the future of music promotion on Twitter, or a tool for more fuckin music spam? My personal opinion is that it can be used for both good and evil lol. What say you?
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Listen To Google’s Discover Music Announcement Online
This afternoon’s announcement of Google’s new enhanced music search service that includes play and purchase functionality courtesy of lala and iLike has been an open secret for more than a week. (see details) But that doesn’t mean that today’s press conference won’t include a few surprises.
In case you didn’t get [...]
More Video, Artist Dashboard, iTunes Purchase
MySpace Music has gotten a major upgrade with the addition of a new music video hub, an artist dashboard offering analytics and track purchase via iTunes. The new features come at a time when the parent MySpace site is losing market share to Facebook.
Music Video Hub
MySpace hopes to challenge YouTube’s [...]
(I’ll be speak on the “DIY Label: Promoting and Selling your Music in the Digital Age” panel which begins promptly at 1pm)
California Lawyers for the Arts presents its annual music business seminar, Volume 2009! The event will take place at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts http://www.expression.edu in Emeryville on Saturday, October 24 from 9:30am to [...]
None of the companies involved will confirm the new Google Music service – we have “no comments” or absolute silence from Google, LaLa, MySpace and iLike. But the new service is all but confirmed. And we have the screenshots showing how the service, which will be announced on October 28, will look to prove it.
Matt [...]
As an artist John Mayer has been on the forefront of emerging technologies, embracing the art of blogging and tweeting before it was trendy to do so. Today, however, Mayer has been able to make music and technology history as the first recording artist to release an augmented reality music video.
The music video for “Heartbreak [...]
Drake is often used as a prime example for how struggling independent hip hop artists can succeed in the music business. In order for that to be the case, Drake’s path to success would have to be reasonably attainable by other artists who begin their careers in hip hop. But Drake’s path is not your [...]
Google Wave! It’s The Future! Convergent Communication 3.0! The bleeding zeitgesty edge of real-time innovation! But, er, what exactly IS it, and what potential does it have – if any – for artists, labels and the music industry?
I’ve been puzzling over this since Google Wave was first announced earlier this year. Now it’s launched in [...]
There are a lot of independent hip hop artists on Twitter that are wasting their time by using it ineffectively to promote and market themselves. Twitter is a great tool if used correctly, but it can be totally useless if not. Here are 5 Twitter marketing habits you should avoid.
1. Sending me an @ reply [...]
