Trade revenue generated by the global recorded music industry in 2011 dropped by 3% to $16.6 billion, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic... 
In the early days of Web 1.0 beta (i.e. the ’90s), most of us who were paying attention thought music middlemen were on their way out. Technology on the near horizon allowed bands to sell tickets, merchandise, and recordings directly to fans, while promoting their music through early internet radio, where payola and corporate sway over the FM dial weren’t factors. Everything looked like it would operate outside the usual confines of labels, publishers, distributors, marketers, retailers, ticket sellers, promoters, and the rest of the middlemen that had built up over the past hundred years or so between artists and fans. 
Desktop music app Tomahawk, which serves as a centralized solution for playing songs on-demand from digital collections or online streaming services, has sprouted a new Internet app. Available via web browsers, Toma.hk lets users enter artist and song names, then spits out embeddable HTML code than can be inserted onto blogs and websites, allowing direct links to playable tracks online. 
The Washington Post is in bad shape, and its social reader app, which spams your Facebook friends with the fact that you just read an article about Kim Kardashian’s latest hangnail atrocity, isn’t helping. 
Sonora is a new music player for OS X that focuses on a gorgeous view of your album art, instantaneous search of your library, and queue-based playback. 
Spotify have been in overdrive this week, releasing the much-anticipated iPad app (I don't have an iPad so can't review it for you - sorry! 
From Tuesday, music fans will be able to sift through the late DJ's vast archive as part of an expanding virtual museum... 
Spotify Ltd., the London-based 
Piracy kills creativity: hoe piratencultuur de muziek zelf verandert... 
The Incredible Polo, which appears to be an all-vocals, one-man band in the style of Bobby McFerrin, struck upon an innovative approach to promote its new release: a web app that lets you remix its song by dragging and dropping melodies, effects, beats, voices and choruses onto a bunch of animated versions of the artist doing his thing. 
The assaults keep coming like the Terminator, don't they? This one is bipartisan, too. Comes to you from Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD). Strongly recommend reading the entire article. 
Worse than SOPA: New bill CISPA could even shut Wikileaks... Harlan Coben has sold 50 million books. He sells 4.5 million a year. If he was a musician, he’d start attacking his audience immediately. And thereafter rail against his publisher and Amazon and anybody who keeps him from feeding his family. |
We spend a lot of time thinking about the future of music as an app phenomenon – mostly for listeners, but also for musicians: instruments for the synth wiz, ways for musicians to market and monetize tunes, and recently, how this whole transition into apps has affected music bloggers. 
Times are changing: the good ol’ record player and even CD’s have been replaced by streaming services like Spotify. With Covify, you can scan your old albums right into Spotify. It’s easy, we promise! 
Long before Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to found Facebook, Last.fm allowed music fans to keep an online record of the music they had been listening to in all sort of music players, including iTunes, Winamp, and more. Last.fm’s feature for this is called “scrobbling,” based on the fact that it had acquired a company called AudioScrobbler in order to add it. 
In our exclusive interview with Grooveshark CEO and co-founder Sam Tarantino a couple of weeks ago, he listed no fewer than eight reasons why music should be free — and why his company should be the one to make it that way. 
While Spotify now has a rich seam of third-party apps built for its platform, ShareMyPlaylists has been around almost as long as the music streaming service itself, helping users curate collections of music for each other. 
Met het Open Deezer-project wil Deezer een app-platform maken rond zijn muziekstreamingdienst. 
We already know the vinyl revival is not going away. Now, there’s a handy new app looking to help record shoppers (not to mention CD holdouts) listen to albums before buying them, as well as sharing their prospective purchases with friends a la Instagram.
Enter: InstaSound. 
The founder of Spotify, the online music streaming service, is the highest new entry on a music millionaires Rich List with a personal fortune of £190 million. 
Spotify has gone from strength to strength since it launched in 2008, and last year its deep Facebook integration and US launch helped take the music-streaming service to the next level. ... 
The latest issue of The Next Web iPad Magazine (it was released two days ago; if you've got an iPad - subscribe today!) sees the launch of a partnership with music startup 22tracks ... June 9th 2012 - Europe-wide action against ACTA More information at http://edri.org/acta This video is available in many languages. Check http://youtube.com/... With the expected signing by President Obama of the JOBS bill containing provisions for crowd investing, a new crop of funding sites are set to emerge. |
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