I recently got into The Weeknd, a Canadian R&B artist who’s got this incredibly moody/atmospheric/drugs vibe to his music. Part of his image involves associating himself with American Apparel style models and photography. I stumbled across a Vimeo video for his tune, “High for this”, which I don’t think is an official video-but it works [...]
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 [...]
This could down as some the biggest news of the year for songwriters. TuneCore is getting into the publishing business: I began using TuneCore six years ago with the release of Ghosts. …The experience went very well – they actually did what they said they would in a straightforward, transparent, efficient and logical manner… …I’ve continued using TuneCore for [...]
The boy wonder himself is about to get to another Internet first; 2 billion YouTube views. Remember – 2 billion views isn’t 2 billion people. Bieber grabbed many of these views via a select group of tween girls. Girls with never ending acess to YouTube at all hours of the day. I’m fairly certian that we can probably [...]
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 [...]
Lifehacker has a nice little primer on how to get recording on the cheap going for you. The article isn’t exhaustive but it’s a good start if you’re new to the recording world. We’ve written about the importance of learning how to record on your own before. I believe that if you want to become a full time, sustainable, musician then [...]
Perhaps I’ve just missed this video trend before, but it appears that there may be one more style of YouTube video that you can be creating. I’ll call it the Video Collage. Lana Del Rey triggered this post. She’s now released a few videos that have been very much embraced by the public and the [...]
This is a move I didn’t see coming. You can now sell your wares straight from YouTube! …able to sell artist merchandise, digital downloads, concert tickets and other experiences to fans and visitors. Topspin is helping power merchandise sales, concert tickets and experiences; SongKick will help sell tickets for concerts; and iTunes and Amazon will [...]
Drake killed it on Saturday Night Live last night. He brought his Young Money crew member Nicky Minaj and also appeared in the digital short and the weekend update. Check it out below. Music Consciousness Voyno
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 [...]
