Musicsphere

Buy An Album Months Before You Can Actually Listen to It? Really?!

We are going to start seeing some great new music startups popping up as music makes a stronger move to the online space over the next couple of years. Music promotion and distribution is a different animal online and we will see plenty of new models taking on the old models of promotion and distribution
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Can Music Artists Give the Middle Finger to Offline Major Labels?

I’m very interested in new models of promoting and distributing music on the Internet. I think it is in area in which we are going to see a lot of innovation over the next couple of years. Music like print newspapers and print magazines is starting to develop a larger presence on the Internet.
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The Music Blogosphere Has a Problem

Music blogs don’t give each other credit for starting the buzz around new bands, singles and leaks, and it is hurting the music blogosphere’s rise.
When I say credit I mostly mean linking. Music blogs don’t know how to link to each other acknowledging that somebody started the buzz first. Let’s say an original music [...]