Posts Tagged with ‘independent-artists’

Sure there are already social music communities and marketplaces for independent artists, but Oomix offers users a major twist.
Oomix, currently in a beta pre-launch stage, is aiming to spur some musical creativity by connecting artists around the world and bringing them together on one site to collaborate.
This service allows anyone to post their own instrumental or vocal tracks on the site as well as listen to the uploaded tracks of others. Once joining as a musician, band, or record label, [...]

Late last spring we brought you word of the debut of an online venue called YouLicense, which provided place for independent music creators to license their tracks and clips to those who, well, wish to license music, whether it be for a marketing or commercial purpose, or any other purpose, really. And since June, it seems to have grown quite a bit, actually.
Well, today we bring you word of a new project from the creators of YouLicense. It’s called VIRV. [...]

About two months ago, we covered the private launch of YouLicense. Since then, it’s more or less been kept under the radar, in closed beta phase. Now it’s out for all to see and hear.
And, I must say, it’s grown quite a bit since the last time I visited the place. Full of tracks recorded by lots and lots of musicians spanning a whole litany of genres, YouLicense has taken its original concept of giving artists complete control over their [...]

The music industry is in trouble. Its titans complain about the continuous decrease in CD sales. And while in previous years the big houses (and the little ones they held within) were the only logical recipients for solo artists and musical groups and acts (think boy bands and the like), today many percussionists, string magicians, vocalists, and pianists and keyboardists, together or apart, are choosing to “go their own way.”
The horror stories about the selling of souls for little more [...]