With the explosive growth of online social networking in recent years, musicians now have several ways to communicate with their fans. But broadcasting the minutiae of everyday life via tweets is not for everyone – be it the fan, or the musician.
I’ve witnessed friends take a shot in the dark down the promotional route with 100% of them moving onto other professions, but once in a while you meet an individual who defied the statistics.
SoundCloud launched the beta release of Takes Questions, a new experimental product that enables anyone to take questions and leave answers in audio, from their own customisable webpage.
MySpace, reeling under the pressure, underwent a futile facelift to seduce the musicians, but musicians have expressed discontent. Let’s point out why musicians shouldn’t quite ditch Myspace, just yet.
GigsWiz, the “next generation ticketing service” where artists, promoters and venues work together to sell more tickets for live music events, has announced their official launch at New Music Seminar.
Spotify, the subscription-based music service has incurred losses of £16.6 million during 2009. Although much of this figure can be attributed to royalties paid to record labels, the Swedish company has again pushed back its service’s introduction into the US market.
