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 [...]
It seems that every year CD Baby is around they make their products better and better. Their latest announcement about their one stop music shop is no different. With this little Facebook plugin you can do so many things that will make you money: It’s an easily added as a tab on your Facebook Band Page. You don’t [...]
Wayyyy back in January of this year I wrote a very flammable post about how when Steve Jobs dies, and Apple starts its inevitable downturn, musicians, more specifically those musicians that use iTunes as a stable income source will be hurt. The article was arguing a valid point, but some people didn’t like talking about the future and about a man’s [...]
We’re fans of Big Cartel. They’ve been consistent and good at what they do for a long while now. There are definitely many other stores and apps that you could use with your band’s Fbook profile, but with BigCartel it appears so simple. Note: The video doesn’t want to embed properly so click here for the video. [...]
The streaming world is getting smaller and smaller. Spotify has arrived in America and streaming services are feeling the pressure. That brings today’s announcement of Rhapsody buying Napster’s subscribers not that out of the world… ..Rhapsody will give the big box electronics retailer a stake in its company in return for its Napster subscribers and certain other assets. [...]
Say you’ve written a great song. The lyrics are spectacular, the melody is beautiful, and the chords are divine. People have started asking you how to play it. You could put some time into making a YouTube video (which may never happen), or try something like the band Dinosawh did: Put the chords of the the [...]
Well it appears Weezy is about to turn his baby money into big boy money because the man has already sold 300,000 digital copies of Tha Carter IV and is now expected to sell close to one million digital albums. WHAAAAAA! That is nutz. Just a few weeks after Jay-Z and Kanye West broke the first [...]
As soon as the RIAA successfully shuts down one file sharing service another one pops up. So here’s September’s entry: Groovejaar. Enter Groovejaar, a brand new piece of open source music downloading software that essentially takes Grooveshark and turns it into LimeWire, but with super-fast downloads, great quality MP3s – and absolutely no malware. The [...]
I’m not even surprised. Of course the major labels are all full of shit when they say they care about piracy. All they care about is the all mighty dollar. If the money is better on the other side of the morality line, why not just play for that side as well? That sort of [...]
