Your audience, your patrons

An open letter written by the composer of the music for the series Battlestar Galactica to its listener. An excellent point of view of the relationship between the music artist and the new role the public is playing, as a patron of the art rather than as a consumer.
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Videos on your site

Online videos bring traffic to your site, and help you build your brand. The article below is an excerpt on the stategies used by a record store to embrace the internet. But theses strategies can be used for other businesses, such as selling your music online.
A Brick-and-Mortar Record Shop Adapts – BusinessWeek
Online Videos
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How do we get the metal bands onto the music video games

you get on these games and you get known instantly. How to do it, though? I’m still looking into it…
Rock Band and Guitar Hero 3 new home for metal debuts
Both Rock Band and Guitar Hero III have become big business in the gaming world, and with the opening of the online music store [...]

Amazon for men, iTunes for women

Lots of room for digital downloads to grow. So go get your songs online !
Amazon MP3 store’s gains not coming at iTunes’ expense
(…) According to a new report by the NPD Group, the data shows that Amazon may be able to continue growing alongside iTunes. The market research firm said today that only [...]

A tool for the user

Sounds a bit scary to have an online tool monitor so completely your choices… Although it sure looks like that’s what Internet companies are already doing to you. Perhaps you might as well benefit from it too. But won’t The Filter just keep pusing you more of the same things you already like ? How [...]

High quality video for free on the web

Check out this new site. Got a good video ? Post it there for your fans viewing pleasure… I haven’t had a chance to check it out properly yet, but will keep you posted…
Will Smith and PluggedIn

A new Internet music company is looking to displace YouTube, MySpace and MTV.com as the hub for music [...]

A good summary

Check out this article. it’s a good summary of the new music business
Kiruba Shankar: Business of free music
While the music industry is playing ostrich, a few music bands are smartly embracing the Internet by giving their music away for free … and in the process, making money!

No more file protection on music

Looks like we’re about to finally enter a new era, with powerful companies organizing into lobbies to counter the record companies and move music into the third millenium. About time, too !
Online music sellers look beyond DRM
ERA Digital, which represents companies including HMV, Orange and Play.com, on Thursday set out a five-point plan to drive [...]

Music everywhere

Here’s an example of music getting new distribution opportunities. Since everyone wants music, brands are begininning to think they should honor this wish. Should you start looking at marketing your music through brands ? Why not ? It’s another outlet and opportunity to be heard.
Tommy Hilfiger to link fashion with contemporary music
Tommy TV, an [...]

MySpace Online music store

So far, the deal is only with the majors and nothing will happen for several months, as the plans are still being put in palce. But what happens with the indie’s share of the profits ??? Either it happens, or the indies will rightly leave Myspace in droves…
But the all in one approach is obiously [...]