Recently we wrote about how SOPA or no SOPA many file sharing sites were either being taken down or blocking US residents. The list was getting pretty long and unfortunately we can add a few more to the list. This from our man in the field: Now Filesonic won’t let you download links unless you share a [...]
The end is nigh for Grooveshark. News comes today that all of the Majors are now suing the streaming music service. …After getting hit with lawsuits from Universal Music, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment, EMI — the only company with whom Grooveshark actually had a licensing deal — has now filed suit against [...]
The other day I shared an interesting piece from Waxy.org. The story was about how all YouTube covers are illegal. Well today YouTube and Google have made a move that could appease the rights holders to those songs. Introducing, RightsFlow: …We’ve acquired RightsFlow, a New York-based company that helps songwriters, recording artists, record labels, distributors and online [...]
Have you heard about the Vimeo Music Store where you can legally license and purchase music to add to your Vimeo videos? This is big news because Vimeo is a popular site for stylish, cool, and engaged video creators. That means that they care about the sound and the quality of the music in their videos. …users [...]
Of course Coldplay’s anti-streaming strategy worked. Duh. I wrote about this recently when the world first learned that Coldplay won’t be giving their album to Spotify, Rdio, and other such streaming sites. It was a straight up money grab, and now the evidence is in. Mylo Xyloto has sold nearly half a million copies during it’s first week. That [...]
If you’re a Bandcamp user then you’ll probably enjoy this bit of news; Bandcamp is now offering a Facebook app/widget/plugin. Yay! The Bandcamp Facebook app puts all the functionality and content of your Bandcamp site into a tab within Facebook. The plugin will be a direct competitor with Root Music, the previous winner of Facebook music apps. [...]
Have you heard the news? …Coldplay, who is known for wanting and having complete control of their music, announced today that they are no longer offering their music to streaming sites like Spotify and Rdio. ….Those close to Coldplay say the band is trying to keep the entire album,”Mylo Xyloto”, intact rather than breaking the tracks up for [...]
We’re big fans of Bandcamp here at New Rockstar Philosophy…but some want to see even more data from Bandcamp’s analytics side. Enter Bandalizer: Bandalizer is a tool which transforms those shaggy .csv files into tables, charts and much more: it helps you to find out when and where you should promote your new album / [...]
Here at The New Rockstar Philosophy we’re always interested in new ideas. One of them that we’ve come across is SoundOff.fm: SoundOff.fm is for musicians and music lovers alike. As voters unearth new music, artists gain the exposure they need. It’s all done with bias-free voting, a wrinkle in the traditional “music discovery” process. And it’s 100% [...]
Are you watching This Week In Music with Ian Rogers? You should be, because every episode can teach you something. Like if you want to know where the future of digital music is headed then look no further than the 30min mark of Ian Rogers interveiw with Marc Geiger . The whole thing is good but [...]
