ExCITe Center to Host Philadelphia's First Music Hack Day
PHILADELPHIA, PA: More than 100 technology and music enthusiasts will join forces with coders, designers and industry representatives to create new music-related technology during the first Music Hack Day in Philadelphia. A 24-hour marathon of conceptualizing, hacking and coding with the goal of designing the future of music technology will bring artists, engineers, musicians, programmers and ...
Rhapsody Adds Liner Notes, a 1st for Digital Music
At the Music Biz 2013 Conference today in LA, Rhapsody, announced that it is adding liner notes and credits to it's digital music offering. Credits for songwriters, background performers, producers and engineers are being added to the song title, album, and featured artist listed on other music services. Rhapsody users can now search for music by ...
CEO Chris Kantrowitz on Creating the Future of Music Storage and File Transfer at Gobbler
Cloud storage is a big topic these days but specialized services for musicians are still coming into their own. Last week I spoke with Gobbler CEO and Founder Chris Kantrowitz about his unique cloud storage, syncing and transfer platform for musicians and others who work with digital audio. From his early days as a teen entrepreneur ...
Bandzoogle Acquires Musician Website Platform NoteWay Media
Bandzoogle, the popular website platform for musicians, today announced that it has acquired the assets of NoteWay Media, a niche competitor that also provides a self-serve website platform for musicians, performers and entertainers. Details of the acquisition were not released. NoteWay hosted websites are being moved to Bandzoogle's servers over the next few weeks and NoteWay ...
CueNotes: Making the Transition from Old School Liner Notes to the Digital Realm
Digital liner notes and related offerings such as “annotated song lyrics“ have long been considered one way to “bring back“ some of the experience of listening to old timey record albums. But the temptation to create a digital replica that amounts to shovelware rather than adapting such concepts to the internet is a strong one. CueNotes ...
Social Media Impact for Musicians: How Conan O'Brien Beats out Other Late Night Shows
By Liv Buli (@lbuli)), Resident Data Journalist for music analytics company Next Big Sound. Last March, jazz-funk jam band Galactic took to Conan O'Brien's stage and performed the track “Hey Na Na" off their recently released album Carnivale Electricos. Joined by R&B vocalist Corey Glover and brass ensemble The Soul Rebels, they brought “a little bit ...
Google Opens Universal Analytics to All Users Plus Visualize Your Google Analytics
Keeping up with what your fans and followers do as they move from one screen to another has sometimes been difficult. For Google Analytics users, this process will get a bit easier with the launch of Universal Analytics in public beta. Originally available only to paying customers, Universal Analytics is now available to all users. Google ...
Austin Tech Talk at SXSW: Interviews with Tom Silverman and X5's Scott Reilly
The following excerpts are from 2 days of interviews conducted by Helsinki based streaming company LiveMusicStage at SXSW 2013. These interviews were filmed and streamed live on Austin Tech Talk from the LiveMusicStage booth at digitalmusic.org's lounge. LiveMusicStage is an online venue where fans can participate in interactive live-streamed concerts, broadcast by venues, festivals and studios ...
Mico Headphones Let Your Brainwaves Choose the Music
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Music is starting to listen to us, for a change. The signs are popping up everywhere — and not just in music services that make great guesses about what a particular human wants to hear, but quite literally, with magic bracelets and heart-healthy music apps that alter musical programming or ...
Do SXSW's Tech Trends Foretell the Future of Music?
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Monday was the last day of SXSW Interactive, which means people are posting lists of trends purporting to distill this incredibly wide-ranging event into a few key trends — “takeaways," if you will — from the event. These hopefully say something about where we are, both culture- and business-wise, as ...
Why Wait For Google's Youtube Music Service? Stream It Free Now!
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Google and YouTube are working on at least one subscription music service to complement YouTube (free music videos) and Google Music (free music locker and download store). Our theory is that this is because some label(s) are pressuring Google into the music subscription space by threatening to withhold their music ...
Bands: Stop Using Flash on Your Website
Flash was once a hugely popular platform used to create streaming audio and video players, animations, and other multimedia content for websites. Now, its popularity is waning, as it struggles for relevance in a more mobile world. When reviewing websites for Bandzoogle at music conferences, I still see many artists using Flash widgets for important content ...
The Magic 8: Essential Menu Options for Your Band Website
At Bandzoogle, one of the most important decisions we try and help our members make is what main menu options to have on their websites. Whether you're building the new website for your band, or just doing a bit of cleaning up, the navigation has a significant impact on the experience your fans will have on ...
How Pitchfork Visualizes Music on the Internet
Welcome to part two of our condensed, super-digestible interview with RJ Bentler, vice president of video programming for the influential music tastemaker Pitchfork. The first part of this interview covers the interactive promise of internet-on-the-television. This second (and final) segment concerns Pitchfork’s plans for putting its original video programming directly on the television — an area ...
