Posts Tagged with ‘musicians’

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. [...]

The online music service known as iLike owes much of its recent success to social networking service Facebook, which developers at iLike developed an app for shortly after the launch of the Facebook Platform.
Now, iLike wants to make integration between Facebook and its service as easy and effortless as possible for the musicians who mantain profiles. The new Artist Services Platform provides music artists with one artist page to maintain across both iLike & Facebook and claims to make it [...]

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 [...]

JamJunky is the site that allows songwriters to get feedback on what others think of their creations. As an artist, you can upload your song, along with any details including tempo, key, lyrics, the song’s inspiration, and liner notes. Then you can send the page to friends to check out and comment on. If you’re feeling confident and want more feedback, you can leave your song open to the criticism of the JamJunky community.
You can also use the site as [...]