Music Marketing
Irish-based site that looks at new ways the industry can sell music in these tumultuous, shifting times.
http://musicmarketing.ie
Clients from Hell
“I don’t want to pay for the red words on my website, can you use less red so that I can get a discount?” Plenty more face palms abound on this web design horror stories site.
http://clientsfromhell.tumblr.com
STFU Marrieds
This site calls out married couples who practice the Facebook equivalent of P.D.A in their status updates. Whether it’s annoying exaltations of love or domestic tiffs over the dinner for all to see, we don’t want to know.
http://stfumarrieds.tumblr.com
Last month, this column mentioned Sellaband.com, a site that enables fans or “believers” as they’re called, to donate towards an artist’s album recording fund and share in the potential profits. Sellaband scored a huge coup last week when rap hall of famers Public Enemy chose the site to raise money for their forthcoming album.
Chuck D, Flava Flav and co. are hoping to raise $250,000, the site’s most ambitious funding project yet at sellaband.com/publicenemy. PE have always been at the forefront of championing net music technology. They were one of the first groups to release MP3s from their own website and have advocated artist-owned releases for a decade or so.
“Believers” are able to buy single $25 shares and each share entitles them to: a numbered copy of the album, an early download version and 33% of the net revenue for the first five years divided amongst them. Continue Reading..»
Ash are ready to make good on their decision never to release albums ever again. Their A-Z project which sees the now New York-based band release 26 songs; one every fortnight for the next twelve months, on 7” vinyl and digital download kicks off in December.
Another act taking the completely independent route are Canadian band Metric who recently released their album Fantasies. Metric’s manager told the LA Times that by selling direct to fans from their website and download stores like iTunes, Metric have already made more money on the new album than their last (and relatively popular Live it Out) record achieved in four years.
Taking the “direct to fan” approach further is Josh Freese, who gained plenty of exposure thanks to his unique scheme. The alt-rock drummer made enough noise with former bands A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Devo and The Vandals, that when it came to releasing his second solo album Since 1972, he decided to come up with a novel and attention-grabbing way of releasing it. Continue Reading..»
