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APA Adds Three Agents To Nashville Office
APA Has Added Three New Agents To Its Nashville Office – Jeff Hill, Jim Butler And Miles Hayes
HOT 97 SUMMER JAM Partners With Avex Live Creative For SUMMER JAM TOKYO
Monumental Expansion Of The HOT 97 SUMMER JAM Brand, Bringing The Biggest Hip Hop Festival To Tokyo In July 2016
How This Startup Raised a $1.7 Million Seed Round on Chicken-Less Eggs
Clara Foods figured out how to pitch a unique product without making investors balk. Read on to learn how they did it.
Ticketmaster To Sell Tickets Directly On Facebook
BuzzFeed Newsis reporting Facebook will begin offering ticket purchases on the social media […]
Musicians Corner Announces Permanent Location, Spring Lineup
Free concert series Musicians Corner will launch its seventh year with a two-day […]
Grimes on ‘Art Angels’ Follow-Up, Why She Loves Tool
Claire Boucher, a.k.a. Grimes, prides herself on being a one-woman show. She writes, produces, engineers and performs some of her generation’s most inventive indie pop – most recently Art Angels, which hit Number One on the Alternative album charts and shifted her from hazy synth-pop toward an off-kilter guitars-and-beats sound….
SoundCloud Integrates With Twitter Moments, Audio Cards
Now that SoundCloud has launched its long anticipated paid streaming music service, we expect to see a flood of innovation as it rushes to find its place in a crowded marketplace. First up, a more direct audio integration with Twitter.
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SoundCloud today announced an integration with Twitter Moments via audio cards. Now users can listen to a SoundCloud track directly in the Moments tab.
SoundCloud has been integrated with Twitter’s audio cards since October 2014. But with this update SoundCloud listening is seamless across Twitter Moments, as well. The integration will work in Moments everywhere SoundCloud audio card works: iOS, Android and web.
You’ll find the integration in Moments in the “today” and “entertainment” sections.
7 Promotional Stunts You Can Pull With Your Leftover CDs
While merch sales remain a strong source of revenue for artists, CDs no longer bring in the cash they once did. Still, compact discs can still serve a variety of valuable functions when it comes to marketing and promoting your band.
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In this recent post on MusicThinkTank, Bjorgvin Benediktsson discusses how artists who may be having a difficult time selling their CDs the conventional way can offload them on fans through more unorthodox promotional techniques.
“The first thing to remember is that your CDs aren’t worthless just because people aren’t buying them. It’s just that the CD format holds less value for your audience. It’s not that they don’t want to have a copy of your CD, it’s that if they have a more convenient solution they will always choose that one.”
Lady Gaga’s Startup Just Went Out of Business
Backplane was Gaga’s vision for an online social network, a place where her fans could come and connect.