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| Jan 12, 2026 | The “Artificial Streaming” Crisis: How Independent Artists Are Safely Navigating Spotify’s 2026 Crackdown | Share
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The music industry has a dirty secret: almost everyone boosts their numbers. From major labels quietly paying for “playlist placement” to independent artists exchanging streams in private communities, artificia... |
| Dec 9, 2024 | Beyond the Lyrics: How to Transform Songwriting Skills into Successful Self-Publishing | Share
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Songwriting is an art form that blends creativity, emotion, and technical skill. For many songwriters, the process of writing a song is an intimate and personal endeavor, whether they are inspired by a moment i... |
| Jul 22, 2024 | Pirated Movies Flood YouTube, Millions of Views on Compromised Channels | It’s Tuesday, April 24, 2007, and other than Beyoncé & Shakira singing Beautiful Liar on the radio, nothing much is happening.
For someone called haroldlky, whose real identity is currently unknown, at least part of that day was spent o... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Tennessee Just Passed a New Law to Protect Musicians From a Growing AI Threat — And Even Taylor Swift Has Been a Victim Tennessee is the first U.S. state to pass legislation protecting music industry professionals. | |
| May 12, 2023 | CD Baby and Cosynd Expand Partnership to Provide Independent Musicians with Powerful Copyright Protection | CD Baby Announces Integration with Cosynd's Copyright Registration API
This partnership will empower CD Baby’s 1M+ indie artists to efficiently register copyrights + establish legal ownership over their work using Cosynd's API.
By integrati... |
| May 9, 2023 | MVI (Mark Vickness Interconnected) To Release "In The Rain Shadow" | MVI - In The Rain Shadow
MVI (Mark Vickness Interconnected) ASHEVILLE, NC, USA, May 9, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Following the release of “Places” in 2017 and “Interconnected” in 2020, composer/guitarist Mark Vickness announces the release ... |
| Sep 6, 2021 | Music4Hope Service Project - Honoring the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 | RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB) September 06, 2021
The Music4Hope Foundation working together with various community partners is organizing a special virtual event. Due to the continued Coronavirus (COVID-19) impacts on the ability to gather with fam... |
| Nov 7, 2019 | Island Mele: Duncan Kamakana’s ‘Atherton’ worthy of airplay | “LIVE AT THE ATHERTON”
Duncan Kamakana (Mo‘olelo)
Singer/musician Duncan Kamakana, son of Na Hoku Hanohano Award-winning songwriter Jon Osorio, decided years ago to make his own way in the entertainment business without using the family nam... |
| Aug 22, 2017 | NIGERIAN STARTUP PUBLISEER PROMOTES NIGERIAN CREATIVITY | Publiseer is a digital music and book publishing platform for Nigerian artists and authors. Their mission is to let the rest of the world experience the creativity of Nigerians.
Their services that they offer to artist and authors are compl... |
| Nov 26, 2016 | Funding roundup - week ending 11/26/16 | Oracle acquired Dyn; Tesla completed the deal for SolarCity; Google bought Qwiklabs
Bed Bath & Beyond acquired PersonalizationMall.com, an online retailer of personalized products. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Personal... |
| Apr 20, 2016 | Albums air artists’ range | RAIATEA HELM
JVH
TIM ROSE MUSIC
“He Leo Huali”
Ra‘iātea Helm
(Raiatea Helm)
The voice and the style is the same; only the name has changed with this beautiful new album by the Hawaiian vocalist formerly known as Raiatea Helm. Putting an ‘ok... |
| Jan 17, 2016 | Instrumentalist updates Santana hit with ukulele | “Ukulele What?” by Ka‘imi Hanano‘eau
“Tropical Swing” Hot Steel & Cool Ukulele
“Ukulele What?”
Ka‘imi Hanano‘eau
(no label)
Multi-instrumentalist Ka‘imi Hanano‘eau made a splash in 2014 as guitarist and lead vocalist of HiRiz, a reggae/... |
| Jan 4, 2016 | Watch: In stressful hospital corridors, a singing staffer eases patients’ anxiety | Pulse of Longwood takes you inside one of the nation’s largest hubs of hospitals and biomedical research.
Nervous patients heading into surgery at one Boston hospital may get an extra dose of pre-op medicine: a serenade from transport worke... |
| Aug 30, 2015 | Kalima issues DVD of recent TV show, plus bits of her bio | "Lehua Kalima"
Lehua Kalima
(Coco Palm Pictures Productions)
Lehua Kalima’s recent "Island Music, Island Hearts" television special is now her latest DVD album. Kalima is seen performing in an intimate beachfront setting... |
| Aug 23, 2015 | Group of diverse songs helps the Surfrider hui | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
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| Aug 8, 2015 | Sine utilizes yoga training | Hawaii actress Jennie Lee Sine has had to work very hard to infuse her personal beliefs into her guest appearances on “Hawaii Five-0.”
Not that this was a complete stretch for her, but as a yoga therapist who strives to find a blessing in e... |
| Apr 9, 2015 | 8tracks Signs Direct Licensing Deals With Music Labels To Improve Playlist Creation | Music streaming service 8tracks just signed a few licensing deals with independent music labels to make playlist creation much easier. As a reminder, 8tracks true advantage lies in its community — the service is all about creating playlists... |
| Oct 29, 2014 | For struggling indie artists, YouTube helps — kind of | For better or worse, new content platforms have permanently transformed the music industry, but they’re not always a boon for fledgling bands. CD Baby CEO Tracy Maddux was in town for this year’s Future of Music Policy Summit. Technical.ly ... |
| Nov 13, 2013 | Will Spinlet & co Survive Spotify, Deezer & Google Music? | Note: The big question was “Will Spinlet and others survive the coming onslaught from Deezer, Spotify, Google Music and others?” When I say Spinlet and others, I should actually be saying Spinlet. Iroking, while not officially dead, is repo... |
| Jan 20, 2013 | Social Network Fandalism Adds A Cheap Way For Musicians To Upload Songs To iTunes And More | Fandalism, a social network for musicians, is adding a new feature that should undercut the market for “aggregators” like CD Baby and Tunecore (which allow independent artists to sell their music on iTunes and other digital stores).
To do t... |
| Jan 4, 2013 | Surprise! Digital Music Just Had Its Best Week Ever | After more than a decade of hand-wringing over the music industry’s tumultuous decline, there’s a glimmer of hope. Last week, more people paid for digital music than during any week-long period in history, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
In... |
| Nov 27, 2012 | Rdio Revamps Its iOS And Android Apps Bringing Improved Looks, Navigation, New Playback Controls & More | Streaming music startup Rdio continues its battle with Spotify, today updating its two flagship mobile applications for iOS and Android. The new apps have been redesigned with a cleaner layout, introduce new navigational elements, and add o... |
| Aug 16, 2012 | Streaming music biz Rdio hits 18M songs, partners with TuneCore & CD Baby | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Streaming music service Rdio has partnered with i... |
| Aug 16, 2012 | Rdio Amps Up To 18M Tracks With New CD Baby And TuneCore Deals. More Tracks Than Spotify? | If part of the game in streaming music is to have the biggest catalog of tracks, then today Rdio made a significant move to turn its volume up to Spotify levels, and gain some street cred with indie fans in the process: it announced two key... |
| Dec 20, 2010 | Nederland Emmy-winner David Williams releases new children’s CD | Pick one up
Find David William’s CDs at Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder; Albums on the Hill, 1128 13th St., Boulder; Mountain Ecology Center, 20 Lakeview Drive unit 107, Nederland; and online at CDBaby.com.
You could say David Wi... |
| Sep 28, 2009 | A Song For Lily Allen… And A Little Conversation | All weekend, I’ve been inundated via email, Twitter, the submission page and more, from people all pointing me to musician Dan Bull’s brilliant musical “open letter” to Lily Allen in response to the whole kerfuffle last week concerning Lily... |
| Oct 26, 2008 | TuneCore Takes $7 Million To Help Artists With Digital Sales | Despite our bumpy history with TuneCore, we’re big fans of their business model: they help artists get digital distribution of their music on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, napster, eMusic and other online music sites without the trouble of goin... |
| Feb 29, 2008 | Soul Patch | Soul Patch is a blues/rock band out of Boulder Colorado featuring two VCs, Ryan McIntyre and Jason Mendelson, both of Foundry Group.
As many of you know, I am a big fan of the team at Foundry, mostly because they are great investors who I l... |
| Sep 5, 2006 | Song Of The Day | The Gotham Gal and I got an email several weeks ago from Sam, who is the lead singer and songwriter of a project called Lipstik.
We played the music off the web (click on the link at the bottoom of the post) a couple times and liked what we... |
| Aug 3, 2006 | Matthew Worden | One of the cool things about blogging about music is I get a lot of music sent to me. I try to listen to all of it.
A couple of weeks ago I got a CD called Cobblestone Streets and Endless Sounds by Matthew Worden. Matthew happens to work he... |
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| Movie soundtrack includes songs by Keawe and Kaapana | COLUMBIA PICTURES
Emma Stone, left, Bradley Cooper and Rachel McAdams star in director Cameron Crowe’s “Aloha,” which co-stars a soundtrack featuring traditional Hawaiian and hapa haole music.
"Songs of Aloha (Original Motion Picture S... |
| Slack key veteran Lance Takamiya releases his first album | PASS OUT POR2003
Lance Takamiya pays homage to Hawaii and its culture with 10 originals that he plays in the traditional nahenahe (sweet, melodious) style.
“Aloha, This Is Who We Are”
Lance Takamiya
(Pass Out, POR2003)
When a previously unk... |
| Pe‘a nurtures traditions | COURTESY TIHATI PRODUCTIONS
Ua “Then & Now”
COURTESY TIHATI PRODUCTIONS
Kalani Pe’a “E Walea”
“Then & Now”
Ua
(Tihati Productions)
Although Kale Chang has been known in recent years as a record producer and mentor of younger artists... |
| NIGERIAN STARTUP PUBLISEER PROMOTES NIGERIAN CREATIVITY | Publiseer is a digital music and book publishing platform for Nigerian artists and authors. Their mission is to let the rest of the world experience the creativity of Nigerians.
Their services that they offer to artist and authors are compl... |
| Gospel singer shows her faith in impressive debut recording | “Brand New Day”
Sherry V. Graham
(Unction Function)
With the 2014 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards now history, it isn’t playing favorites or giving anyone an unfair advantage to review an album that was released last year but not provided for revie... |
