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  The option’s for sharing your music with fans continues to grow so its time to make sure your ‘tooled up’. Almost a week does not pass nowadays without some techie new social media tool popping up to delight us all!  So are you ‘tooled up’ so to speak?  Well as promised here are a small [...]

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Recently Hypebot readers, myself included were able to put questions to indie artist Amanda Palmer about her approach to DIY promotions.  The interview took place on November 19th at The State Theatre in Falls Church VA.  Jim McDermott (a former major label digital and artist development guy)  hosted this special event. Jim commented “We needed an artist [...]

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Success in the music industry is now based on direct engagement with fans, not pushing acts  through radio and traditional media.  With this in mind  Next Big Sound is a new site that tracks a whole lot more than just a few page views. These guys clearly understand the need artists to understand fans online [...]

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If you want to know what is the hottest buzz webwise you should check out EPIC FU. How can I describe it?  Well EPIC FU is your guide to what the web is buzzing about, it’s where tech and culture get it on, it’s a new kind of web TV show that’s all about the [...]

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The Beatles have been all over the TV in the UK this past week. The Beatles on Record film shown on BBC Four charts the ’fab fours’ extraordinary journey from Please Please Me to Abbey Road and reflected on how they developed as musicians and matured as songwriters. It was interesting to see footage of them from the early sixties [...]

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The age of leverage has changed everything.   While the Record Industry was busy keeping the ‘status quo’ and ignoring new business models the heretics were taking over. The key question is why did it deserve to last forever? It didn’t. The record industry failed to read the writing on the wall; they ignored or failed [...]

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To date smaller artists have been restricted from entry to the growing apps market due to costs.  iLike is now offering a solution for acts to build their own apps starting at US$99 (£58) each. iLike is the Web’s leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on the Facebook®, Orkut, hi5 and [...]

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Most music folk now know you don’t need a Universal or Sony behind you to enter the online music market and many independent artists are forging ahead and becoming increasingly savvy in the online music world.  Services like Tunecore and CD Baby enable you to sell your music through the big digital music outlets: iTunes, [...]

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Finding effective strategies for marketing your band is a priority. When it comes to using your limited time wisely you need to focus your efforts to where you can get the best return on time invested. Here in Part 3 of Strategies for Marketing Your Band I’ll share with you another highlight from Tom Williams [...]

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