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Music Industry and Business

BandPage Rolls Out YouTube Tracks Feature

September 3, 2010

A few months ago I wrote about a new, very cool Facebook application for musicians – BandPage by RootMusic.  This week a new feature was rolled out that helps to put more dough in musicians pockets. RootMusic has partnered with YouTube and integrated a method to collect royalties through the BandPage media player. In addition [...]

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Put Your Favorite Song Lyric on a T-Shirt, Coffee Mug, or Mousepad

July 28, 2010

Have you ever loved a song lyric so much that you wanted to show it to the whole world? Well now you can, with the Hal Leonard Corporation’s latest website, LyricStore.com. It’s the only website where customers can print accurate, licensed lyrics on clothing, mugs, and mouse pads. The lyrics from songs recorded by the [...]

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Key points from NARM Music Biz Crash Course

May 25, 2010

I had the pleasure of attending the NARM 2010 conference a couple of weekends ago.  I’ve been a bit delayed at providing what I came away with because I started a new job two days after the conference ended. But there are some key things that every person interested in the music business needs to [...]

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Interview with Jim Donio, President of NARM: Part II – The Music Industry

May 10, 2010

Last week, I posted part one of my interview with Jim Donio, President of NARM.  Later this week, the 2010 NARM convention will come to Chicago, which is what we talked about during the first half of the interview.  Catch up by reading part one. For the second half, we spoke about the music industry.  [...]

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Interview with Jim Donio, President of NARM: Part I – 2010 Convention In Chicago

May 7, 2010

This year, Chicago will host the NARM convention scheduled May 14 to 17.  Earlier this week, I had a chance to speak with Jim Donio, President of NARM.  We spoke about what to expect at this year’s convention and who should attend.  Some of the events we touched upon include the Music Crash Course and [...]

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Heavy Metal and Progressive Rock – Putting Bodies in the Theaters and Killing the iPod?

May 5, 2010

I recently read two interesting blog posts which made me think about how quality metal and progressive music is surviving the declining music industry and increasing its fan base. Maybe People Don’t Go to Shows Because Bands Suck Eyal Levi’s post on metalsucks.com, “Maybe People Don’t Go to Shows Because Bands Suck,” describes how progressive [...]

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Musicians Can Spruce Up Facebook Pages with BandPage Plus

April 12, 2010

Facebook has emerged as the go to network for all sorts of brands. The majority of applications built to support branded Pages are geared towards consumer packaged goods.  Now, musicians have a new application to leverage. BandPage is a new application that launched last month that offers musicians a free and a paid product.  The [...]

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Live Nation and Ticketmaster Merger Complete, Now Wal-Mart Enters Mix?

March 13, 2010

I think I can speak for many music fans out there by saying the approval by the Department of Justice to approve the merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster is bad news.  Good news if you are invested in one or both of the companies, sure.  I just want to go to a concert and [...]

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Pappeltalks: Awesome CD Packaging

February 5, 2010

As part of my everyday duties for my job, I need to find interesting stories related to packaging design; all part of client responsibilities. On occasion, I find stories about music packaging.  I came across the following story via the Lovely Package blog. Check out the video…  You gotta watch the whole thing though.  Two [...]

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Music Power Network

January 4, 2010

It isn’t a secret the music industry is changing.  In fact, it is changing at a dramatic pace.  For folks, such as myself, who dream of entering the business side of things as an artist and/or entrepreneur there is a need to learn about the evolution occurring within the industry. Earlier today, I stumbled onto [...]

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