The Early Beginnings of Direct-To-Fan: How Grateful Dead and Phish Made It Happen
From Hypebot: Direct-to-fan is not a fad. From a factual point of view, direct-to-fan started off in January 1966 with the Grateful Dead and really took off in October 1984. From the early beginning, the Grateful Dead had... Read More
Date posted: May 15, 2013
Final Vinyl?
Last month, the Rock family lost an important person in the history of the genre – and chances are, you never heard of him. But you are sure familiar with his work. Strom Thorgerson, the guy who designed album covers... Read More
Date posted: May 02, 2013
Guest Blog: Jeremy Silver on Social Music Summit
Dr Jeremy Silver is an entrepreneur, investor and advisor in digital media. He is Chairman of Semetric, a real time analytics company whose main product is Musicmetric, Chairman of MusicGlue, an artist’s digital services... Read More
Date posted: Apr 08, 2013
Recap: Photos of the Festival
We already want to relive some of the incredible shows we saw this week. Click the links below to see fantastic photographs from the 2013 Canadian Music Festival. Make sure to keep sharing your photos with us on twitter and... Read More
Date posted: Mar 24, 2013
Efterklang and Nightlands – March 21, 2013 – Cancelled :(
Unfortunately, do to illness, Efterklang has had to cancel their March 21st appearance at Canadian Music Week You can read a statement from the band below. “We’re so sorry to cancel our Toronto show tonight.... Read More
Date posted: Mar 21, 2013
BitTorrent Helps Alex Day Outchart Justin Timberlake
Matt Mason serves as Vice President of Marketing for BitTorrent, Inc. a creator of advanced, innovative technologies designed to efficiently deliver large files across the Internet. BitTorrent currently boasts over 170... Read More
Date posted: Mar 20, 2013
Guest Blog from Marc Scarpa
Marc Scarpa is a veteran Director and Executive Producer of live participatory media. His most recent credits include The X-Factor’s Pepsi Digital Pre-Show and Second Screen Experience, The Global Citizen Festival, Incubus... Read More
Date posted: Mar 16, 2013
Happy 10th Anniversary Frontside Group: A Q&A with Geoff Goddard
Founded in 2003 by Gary McDonald and Geoff Goddard, Frontside Group has become Canada’s most successful music promotion firm. Ten years later, Frontside has expanded from their Vancouver headquarters and now has satellite... Read More
Date posted: Mar 11, 2013
A Q&A With PledgeMusic
The music industry in 2013 is very different compared to just ten years ago. With the ability to find an infinite amount of music at your fingertips, it’s becoming more and more important to get creative with... Read More
Date posted: Mar 04, 2013
A Few Basics, Before You Launch Your Next Record
Music industry expert David Farrell has spent years writing about the ins and outs of all things music. Now he’s sharing with us a few basics on what to do before launching a new record! Check it out! Are you ready... Read More
Date posted: Feb 25, 2013
