Interview with CD Baby President Brian Felsen [Audio]

Posted on 17. Feb, 2012 by in Blog, Music Business

Brian Thompson & Michael Brandvold Interview CD Baby President Brian Felsen

NPR Reveals How Much Money It Took To Make Katy Perry’s Last Album A Mega Hit [Audio]

Posted on 24. Jan, 2012 by in Blog, Music Business, Musicians

If you listen to commercial radio, this is not news: Katy Perry had a huge year. She went No.1 five times. She was the most played artist on the radio. But the record industry is so weird, it’s hard to know whether this kind of success translates into huge amounts of money.

Bravo’s Platinum Hit- How to Become the Next Big Hitmaker: SXSW 2011 Music

Posted on 17. Sep, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business, Musicians

Bravo’s new music competition series Platinum Hit, Season 1 is now available for download on the iTunes Store. The show showcases emerging singer-songwriters on their quest to become the next big hitmaker. The series gives viewers a front row seat to experience the journey and aspirations of these gifted songwriters and an inside look at this unique creative process for the first time. The series follows 12 musicians as they battle through innovative songwriting challenges that will test their creativity, patience and drive. From dance track to love ballad, every episode features a different theme that require the contestants to write and perform lyrics from multiple genres. Their intimate life stories and personal drama unfold within the show and in their lyrics as they compete and live together. In the end, only one is crowned the ultimate hitmaker walking away with a $100,000 cash prize, publishing deal with Sony and with BMI Songwriters, The Writing Camp, and a recording deal with RCA/Jive.

Bravo’s Platinum Hit- How to Become the Next Big Hitmaker: SXSW 2011 Music

Platinum Hit, Season 1 - Platinum Hit

Al Teller – Former head of CBS, Columbia, and MCA Records [Video]

Posted on 12. Sep, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business

In this week’s episode of This Week In Music, Al Teller, former head of CBS, Columbia, and MCA Records, joins Ian Rogers in studio to talk about the music industry past and present. In a fascinating interview, Al talks about going into the music industry after receiving two engineering degrees from Columbia and a Harvard MBA, how the industry evolved over the past 30 years, and where he sees the future of the business going.

iTunes Widgets For Music Apps & More

Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by in Blog, Mac & Apple Stuff, Music Business

Apple now allows you to make widgets for music, apps and playlists. This is great for indie artist to add a streaming player to your site. Sign up for the iTunes Affiliate Program and you’ll make even more cash !

Showcase a single album with cover art, artist and album name,
current price, and track listing.

Allow users to search for tracks or albums, then review the results
with the option to preview songs.

Allow users to search for apps for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, and discover individual apps from their results.

Showcase a single app with the icon, name, price, genre, and description

This Week In Music: Dermot McCormack – EVP Digital Media, MTV Networks

Posted on 26. Jul, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business

Dermot McCormack, EVP of Digital Media at MTV Networks, joins Ian Rogers to talk the past, present, and future of MTV. Dermot shares some thoughts on MTV’s programming and social media initiatives, as well as talks about a fundamental shift that has occurred with media consumption.

SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of “The Fighter” Panel

Posted on 26. Jul, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business, Recording

The SoundWorks Collection recently captured an intimate discussion with the sound team of Director David O. Russell’s “The Fighter”.

In this 50-minute discussion, we are led through the creative process by Supervising Sound Editor/Designer Odin Benitez, M.P.S.E., Re-Recording Mixer Myron Nettinga, and Re-Recording Mixer John Ross, C.A.S. The discussion was moderated by Bruce Carse.

The Sound of “The Fighter” Panel from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.

SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Posted on 06. Jul, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business, Recording

Director Michael Bay and Producer Steven Spielberg return this summer for the third film in the Transformers franchise, Tranformers: Dark of the Moon. The amazing visual effects in this film are complimented by the talented efforts of the sound team including Re-recording Mixers Greg Russell and Jeff Haboush, and Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designers Ethan Van der Ryn, and Erik Aadahl.

This is the first 3D film of the series and will also be presented in regular 2D, Real D 3D and IMAX, featuring Dolby Surround 7.1 sound.

Everything is a Remix [Videos]

Posted on 26. Jun, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business, Musicians, Remixes

Remixing is a folk art but the techniques involved — collecting material, combining it, transforming it — are the same ones used at any level of creation. You could even say that everything is a remix.

New York-based filmmaker, Kirby Ferguson created a interesting four part web series called “Everything Is A Remix”.
To support this series please visit his site

Here is Parts 1,2,3 and a extended look at the Quinti Tarantino film “Kill Bill”.

Everything is a Remix Part 1

Everything is a Remix Part 2
An exploration of the remix techniques involved in producing films.

Everything is a Remix Part 3
How innovations truly happen.

Kill Bill Extended Look

Your Music in TV/Film & Games

Posted on 17. Jun, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business

Kim Nieva of Engine House Music gives tips on how to get your music licensed for film, TV, and video game soundtracks.

Sell Your SoundCloud Songs With SoundRain

Posted on 18. May, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business

SoundRain makes it easy to sell all the songs you have on SoundCloud. And it uses the Minno micropayment system, so it’s super simple for your fans to show you some love.

Get a Free Custom iPhone App for Your Band

Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business

ReverbNation artists can now make a iPhone app for free. With your own iPhone App, fans can stream your music, see your photos and videos, follow your blog and Twitter and more — all from their iPhone or iPod Touch.

On Demand Content:

Now fans can access your songs, videos, photos, blog and show schedule — all from their iPhone!

Direct Connection:

With push notifications, you can send messages directly to people who have downloaded your App.

Mailing List:

Fans can join your mailing list through your App — convert
new listeners into full fledged fans.

Earn Money While Listening to New Music.

Posted on 09. Apr, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business

Music Xray is offering music fans the opportunity to participate in focus groups and get paid to listen to music, provide feedback and influence decisions made by artists and music industry professionals. At the same time, fans can discover new songs and acts. Where else do you get paid to listen to new music? It’s a no-brainer!

Ian Rogers, CEO and Founder of TopSpin Media

Posted on 28. Mar, 2011 by in Blog, Music Business

TopSpin Media CEO and founder Ian Rogers discusses the death and rebirth of the music industry,how he began working with the Beastie Boys after illegally pirating one of their LIVE concerts, and why he has a tattoo of the logo of Steve Jobs first computer company on his leg.

Legendary Record Producer Ken Scott – The Beatles, Supertramp and David Bowie.

Posted on 29. Dec, 2010 by in Blog, Music Business, Recording

Legendary record producer Ken Scott stopped by Q to discuss his experiences working with The Beatles, Supertramp and David Bowie.

A ‘Historic’ Mashup of Last.fm, Billboard and YouTube

Posted on 02. Dec, 2010 by in Blog, Music Business

Tubeify is a new mashup of Last.fm, Billboard and YouTube. The site allows users to search for, discover, play and queue video clips in any web browser.

The advanced search capabilities and outstanding usability makes it without a doubt one of the best YouTube jukeboxes around. One of the true gems is the Billboard “timetravel” feature, allowing users to pull up the Billboard chart for any week since 1964 and listen to the tracks that were leading the charts then.

Get an invite at torrentfreak.com

Reward your Fans for Selling your Music

Posted on 02. Dec, 2010 by in Blog, Music Business

FanDistro helps artists distribute their music in partnership with their fans and friends. Fans use our widgets on their social networks to introduce friends to new music
Their friends can purchase music and merchandise using the widgets, and when they do, the fan (or their favorite charity) receives 20% of sales
Our mission is to help artists grow their fan bases, increase sales and generate interest and excitement for concerts and merchandise
FanDistro has created a network of affiliates to provide merchandise services, marketing, tour support, PR, and major label distribution to artists using FanDistro.

Aweditorium brings indie music discovery to iPad (the Flipboard of music)

Posted on 10. Nov, 2010 by in Blog, Music Business

“What is the modern digital music experience like? It feels like a spreadsheet,” says James Miao, co-founder of thesixtyone.com and Aweditorium. He argues that all of the extra stuff that used to come with record albums has been lost with the digitization of music—and that it’s time to bring back those trappings. “We think of Aweditorium as reimagining the feel of experiencing music on the iPad.”

uPlaya Releases Hot or Not Style Music Game

Posted on 09. Oct, 2010 by in Blog, Music Business

uPlaya, a music tech company developing hit potential/prediction technology, recently released their Head to Head game, where users listen to two songs, picking the one that they think has the most hit potential. The idea is to see if your musical ear can match their mathematical algorithms that determine the hit potential of a song.

Artist also can get paid to place their music in movies, TV and advertisements. Producers and music supervisors get access to your music through the uPlaya Music Supervisor Sync™ applications and partnerships.

Elektra Records Founder on YouTube, Blogs and the Future of Music

Posted on 24. Aug, 2010 by in Blog, Music Business

Always a proponent of new technology, Jac Holzman has been at the helm of a great label throughout turbulent times. Holzman tells us the music businesses has undergone more fundamental change than any other facet of entertainment over the past hundred years or so. He talks about everything from player pianos to vinyl singles to music blogs to YouTube.

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