hypebot: 100 Free and Affordable High and Low Tech Music Promotion Tips
100 Free & Affordable High & Low Tech Music Promotion Tips.

Create An Elaborate Plan - Bruce Warila’s Unsprung Wisdom
Revenue from the sale of music is slowing considerably for everyone. Reoccurring revenue, which is the ongoing stream of revenue you make outside of touring, is going to come from consumers that tune into and fall in love with your brand on the Internet.

Breeding Ground-AllHipHop.com
For most of the 16 years of Rap Coalition’s existence, we have assisted artists and indie labels with putting out their own records and negotiating major distribution deals for those who’ve done so successfully.

Stereophile: Chesky Launches High-Resolution Download Store
The founders of Chesky Records have soft-launched HDtracks, a download store that offers full-resolution FLAC files and 320kbps MP3 files.

Digital Destiny- New York Post
MySpace’s plan to launch a digital-music joint venture with the major record companies is picking up steam, as the social networking giant nears deals with Sony BMG and Warner Music Group.

Capitalizing On Fan Feedback - Music Think Tank
Imagine you’re an independent DIY artist that’s just starting out. You’ve recorded some music and started promoting it online. The initial response is overwhelmingly positive. You get emails from friends and strangers……

Music fans prefer Wikipedia to MySpace - Yahoo! News
Search for an artist on any of the popular search engines, and the top three results are practically guaranteed: the artist’s official Web site, Wikipedia entry and MySpace page — often in that order.

ToneShop now makes ringtones for Apple iPhone
Free multi-format Easy Phone Ringtone Creator for Windows. ToneShop Build 9 now creates .m4r ringtones for Apple’s iPhone.That means you can load your new ringtones into iTunes and sync them up to your iPhone in seconds.

Musicadium Blog - The 5 Things Every Band Needs on Their Myspace
You can’t read what you can’t see. So many myspace pages are destroyed by putting hard to read text over an incompatible background photo. Make sure your text is easily readable, easily accessible and logically set out.

IFPI - Digital Music Retailers
List of worldwide legal digital music download stores, listed by country and compiled by the music industry watchdog the IFPI.

Indistr.com
Indistr places all of the control, creativity, and financial gain back into the artists’ hands by allowing you to sell your own music online. Artists take 75% of all income and get paid instantly.

7 Steps to Successful Networking - Blogging Experiment
Yesterday I gave you the secret to networking with A-listers… they’re people too! Ok, so it wasn’t all that profound but believe it or not, realizing that will help you immensely in your networking efforts.

Extended Play Music News by Todd Martens - The Envelope - LA Times
As recently as four years ago, all the talk about a failing major label model didn’t seem to stop the annual South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, from sending hordes of A&R reps and journalists on the prowl for the next big thing.

Audio: Rip It Good: From CD to MP3, by Dennis Burger - Electronic House
Whether you’re bringing a huge music collection into the 21st century, simply can’t stand the thought of buying all of your music in the digital domain, or just want to listen to some Beatles on your iPod or Zune, at some point or another you’re going to have to rip a CD.

Industry insiders look for model to replace failing ‘tip jar’ system — Chicagotribune.com
AUSTIN, Texas — While most of the 12,500 registrants at the South by Southwest Music Conference were out playing on a beautiful early spring afternoon a few days ago, the latest plan to save the music industry was being scrutinized at a dimly lit panel.

The media industry’s rising stars: top 40 under 40 - Times Online
They are the young guns tuned in to the accelerating pace of change in the media landscape - the trendspotters and entrepreneurs who stand to reap the biggest rewards over the next digital decade.

These Crazy Musicians Still Think They Should Get Paid For Recorded Music
Why is it the Brits have all the crazy-stupid ideas about how to screw up the music industry even more than it is already?