Not too long ago, Max Wessel was at a concert at the Boston indie rock club, The Middle East, when he realized that the opening band may have been better – or, at least, gotten a bigger draw – than the headliner. That got Wessel thinking about music promotion and the booking business. Wessel, an [...]

Ruben Lozano was helping artists with marketing and new media when he found a disconnect between the new models for selling music and the old ones. “It wasn’t making sense to go out and try to sell CDs,” he says. The answer he came up with was to bundle CDs with other merchandise in stores. [...]

iSheetMusic is a music app that works for both the iPhone and iPad. One of the company’s founders, Matt Mostad, was struck one night by the fact that he couldn’t remember any tunes to play at a beachfront guitar pull. Why weren’t there tools on his iPhone to help him remember the chords to that [...]

Rdio has announced a new subscription option for their web and mobile music streaming platform. Previously, Rdio users had only two plans to choose from: a $4.99 web-only access plan and $9.99 web and mobile option. (There is a free version of Rdio that only lets users stream song samples.) Now, Rdio will offer an [...]

Singer-songwriter Will Hoge offered a deal through the website 1Band 1Brand. With the rise of deals on the Internet, one company is finding a niche exploring the connection between fashion and music. Kyle York, along with his brother Travis and two friends, visited the music and technology conference, South By Southwest, in 2010 and noticed [...]

What if you could go to a concert without having to deal with going to a concert? If you could skip all those things that can make live concerts a drag: waiting in line at will call for your ticket; having to fight your way to the bar to buy an expensive drink; peering around [...]

The music genome project seemed like something of a lofty non-profit think tank. Then Pandora went public in June and now sits daintily on the hot seat with a nearly 3 billion dollar valuation and 30 million users. Up until now, Pandora had been all about the algorithm. Users create stations and get great (or [...]

On Wednesday it was announced that MySpace, once a bastion for music on the web, would be sold for $35 million to an Irvine, California-based digital advertising network named Specific Media. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005, will take a jaw-dropping loss on the deal. News Corp. has long [...]

On Monday, June 27, fans of David Gray can visit their local Groupon website for an exclusive daily deal on Gray’s new live album, Lost and Found – Live in Dublin 2011. The album, a $13 value, is available one day only for the price of $6. Gray recorded the album in Dublin this year [...]

While a new version of Apple’s audio editing software Logic may be more immediately interesting to musicians, we’ve written at length about why and how musicians are using video editing skills to promote their music on the Internet. On Tuesday this week, Apple re-launched their market leading Final Cut video editing software in a move [...]

Songkick is one of a handful of new companies that has taken a simple idea and is slowly transforming the music industry. The site puts concert listings in one single place by aggregating data from 150 ticket sites, then personalizes it for users by scanning artists from their iTunes or Pandora account. Since Songkick launched [...]

A new social music web service called Turntable.fm has been awash in praise by early adopters and the tech media. Like a lot of really good ideas, it’s simple: play music for your friends in chat rooms. Currently, the site is still in beta and is invite-only. Users who have a Facebook friend using the [...]