Category archives: Music Tech

New Crowdfunding Platform From Bandzoogle Seeks To Fill PledgeMusic Void

In the wake of music crowdfunder PledgeMusic’s tumultuous downfall into bankruptcy, Bandzoogle has stepped up to the plate and done some serious renovations on its website in hopes of giving artists another option to run successful crowdfunding campaigns. _________________________________ Guest post by Jeremy Young of Soundfly’s Flypaper By now, I’m…

Spotify Invests $10M In Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency

Spotify has officially joined Facebook’s new Libra global cryptocurrency initiative. Spotify stands out as the only music or media company among 28 A-list players ranging from Visa to Uber to Andreessen Horowitz that each invested $10 million. Here’s of Techcrunch describes Libra: "Facebook wants to make Libra the evolution of…

Veteran UMG Exec Jeremy Erlich Joins Spotify As Head Of Music Strategy

Veteran UMG exec Jeremy Erlich has joined Spotify as Head of Music Strategy. His most recent post was as Interscope CFO and EVP Business Development. View this post on Instagram I’m very happy to announce that I’m joining Spotify as the Head of Music Strategy. I’ll be responsible for the…

Artist’s Guide To Pandora AMP

While traditionally artists needed to use a distributor such as TuneCore or CD Baby in order to get their music on a major streaming network, more services are allowing artists to post directly on their platforms. Here, we look at one example, the Pandora AMP service. ___________________________ Guest post by…

Spotify To Back New Facebook Cryptocurrency [REPORT]

Labels, publishers and artists may soon have the option of receiving streaming royalties in cryptocurrency, as Spotify is reportedly one of the early backers of Facebook’s cryptocurrency initiative. Cryptocurrency could solve many of the issues that a company like Spotify has when paying tens of thousands of rights holders in…

Kickstarter Cancels Drip XOXO Artist Subscription Project: Serving Small Creators Is Unsustainable

XOXO, the Kickstarter backed successor the Drip artist and label subscription platform is shutting down before it launches. "Ultimately, we couldn’t find a way to make the business viable," the XOXO team wrote announcing the closure. Kickstarter acquired Drip in March of 2016 and experimented with several iterations of the…

At A2IM’s Indie Week? Join Us For Streaming Manipulation: The Ethics of Streaming

A2IM’s Indie Week is taking over New York City and I’m in town to be part of the Streaming Manipulation: The Ethics of Streaming panel on Tuesday. Here are my (much smarter that I am) fellow panelists and all the details. Streaming Manipulation: The Ethics of Streaming Tuesday, June 18th,…

Genius Accuses Google Of Stealing Its Song Lyrics

Lyrics annotation site Genius,com says that it has caught Google stealing and using its song lyrics to power some of the tech giant’s search results, Genius says it caught Google by cleverly inserting a series of alternating straight and curved apostrophes in the lyrics that it hosts and then finding…