Mark Dowdell runs the music filtration site Bandcamp’s Best, which provides concise reviews of the best albums hosted on Bandcamp, and other music recommendations from Soundcloud. Mark is also an …
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15 Musicians Who’ve Done Time in Prison [GUEST POST]
This is a guest post from Susan Kilroy over at Criminal Justice Degrees Guide, a website that lists and ranks colleges around the world with the best criminal justice programs. …
Grooveshark’s Mobile App Pulled from the Android Market
So it seems that online music streaming company Grooveshark is under fire by our friendly neighborhood geniuses over at the RIAA. On April 1, 2011, Grooveshark’s mobile app was pulled …
Amazon’s Official E-mail to Record Labels About its Cloud Services
Saw this over at hypebot the other day, and this morning over at Digital Music News (with a ridiculously misleading, attention grabbing title), and I wanted to re-post the e-mail …
20 Mind-Blowing TED Talks for Music Students, Lovers, and Industry Folks [VIDEOS]
I came across a great article via Twitter a couple of months back, and just now realized that I never put up a post for it. Whoops! I haven’t watched …
Making the Long Tail Theory Work for You [GUEST POST]
This post was contributed by Nick Lewis from Zimbalam, a digital music distribution company. Zimbalam is powered by Believe Digital, one of the largest digital distribution networks in the world, …
Meet the Dipshit Behind that Rebecca Black Song [INTERVIEW]
This video drained my soul for the day. Le sigh.
Todd Rundgren: Time for the Music Industry to Evolve [VIDEO]
FORA.tv has put together a great video with Todd Rundgren, an American songwriter and recording engineer responsible for helping create some iconic music with bands like The Band, Grand Funk …
The Importance of Collecting Fan Data [VIDEO]
Found this little ditty while surfing YouTube this morning and I wanted to share it with you all. Ian is so right when he rants about the MGMT website, and …
How to Not Get Screwed by the Music Business [E-BOOK]
I came across an article by Jeff Price on the Tunecore blog entitled “The Emergence of The New Music Industry – It’s Global, Generates A Lot Of Money & Is …