Music Startups

MondoTunes Pulls A Bait-and-Switch On Musicians

September 3, 2015

Of course companies change their model. In the startup world it's called pivoting. That's all fine and dandy when you're just playing with your investors' money. But when it's your loyal customers, that's a... Read More...

Grooveshark.vc Dies, Grooveshark.im Surfaces…

Paul Resnikoff

May 19, 2015

April 30th: Grooveshark.com is shut down for good. May 5th: Grooveshark.io surfaces in its place. May 7th: Grooveshark.io becomes a globally-ranked website. May 14th: Grooveshark.io is shut down for good. M... Read More...

Bandsintown’s 15 Million User Milestone Comes With Serious Oversights

Ari Herstand

January 20, 2015

I like the idea of Bandsintown. Anything that helps get the word out about concerts (without artists having to pay for it) is fantastic. Bandsintown (depending on the user's settings) sends out email remind... Read More...

Seven Seas Music Makes It Easy to License Authentic Global Music…

Nina Ulloa

November 7, 2014

Music industry veteran Brooke Wentz is on a mission to make world music more accessible. To do this, Wentz has spent the last four years working on Seven Seas Music, a San Francisco based company that is... Read More...

14 Reasons Why Music Entrepreneurs Fail…

Paul Resnikoff

October 21, 2014

1. They think people care about music more than they do. Some people eat, sleep, and breathe music, but most do not. They aren't spending hours compiling playlists, they aren't exploring niche bands, they a... Read More...

Musicians Can Make Money Renting Their Gear With Sparkplug

Ari Herstand

September 4, 2014

It's a common problem in the touring music community. Touring Band X amp breaks down before their show in Minneapolis. They scramble to seek out rental companies, but none exist. So the band calls the venue... Read More...

Can This Company Save Streaming… And The (Independent) Music Industry?

Ari Herstand

July 27, 2014

So it's quite likely that Google or Facebook is going to be purchasing Spotify fairly soon. Apple bought Beats. No streaming service, however, has proven profitable. It was just reported that Pandora lost o... Read More...

Mark Cuban’s Soundwave Wants to be “The Instagram of Music”

Nina Ulloa

July 17, 2014

"Instagram for music" apps are having a moment. But is a music-specialized version redundant? People keep saying: "Instagram is the Instagram of music!" ... I disagree. Soundwave is the third Instagra... Read More...

Lively Runs Out of Money and Shuts Down…

Nina Ulloa

June 13, 2014

At the beginning of the year, Ari Herstand posted a positive review of mobile concert app Lively on Digital Music News. Shortly after that Lively raised $2 million, hitting a total of $2.65 million in... Read More...

Why BandPage Is Going To Be The Most Powerful Player In Music

Ari Herstand

June 5, 2014

J Sider gets it. The 29 year old CEO of BandPage has seen the industry top to bottom. From booking bands in his hometown of Harrisonburg, Virgina to managing the 4,000 cap Saltair theater in Salt Lake City,... Read More...

Beats Music Off to a Sucky Start…

Paul Resnikoff

April 22, 2014

Beats Music says they already have half-a-million paying subscribers. But maybe that's bulls*&T. From the pages of Billboard... "Two of music's most successful brand marketers, Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre... Read More...

Neil Young’s Pono Kickstarter Approaching $5.5 Million…

Nina Ulloa

April 3, 2014

Neil Young's Pono Music Kickstarter campaign went live on March 11th. By March 18th the campaign had already raised over $4 million. As of 4:33 PM PST April 3rd, 2014 Pono had raised roughly $5.4 million.... Read More...

SRR Capital Launches With a VC-Style Approach to Music Investing

What Is Attribution?

So Busy With "The Quiet Time..."

Netflix Won the Streaming Wars. YouTube Changed the Rules.

Indonesia: One of the World’s Most Promising Digital Music Markets

What Politicians Could Learn from the Music Business: A Midterm Election Primer

The Music Industry Litigation Tracker — Cases Bubbling Right Now: Sony Music v. Kroger, SoundExchange v. Music Choice, Suno v. Apple (Round II), Penske Media v. Google, More

Audio Chateau Records Closing In on a $9 Million Series A

Music Collab Platform Chaos Secures $1.4 Million in Startup Capital, With Amuse Among the Backers

Can We Sue Our Way to AI Control?

What Your Music Data Doesn’t Know Could Be Costing You Money

MondoTunes Pulls A Bait-and-Switch On Musicians

Grooveshark.vc Dies, Grooveshark.im Surfaces…

Bandsintown’s 15 Million User Milestone Comes With Serious Oversights

Seven Seas Music Makes It Easy to License Authentic Global Music…

14 Reasons Why Music Entrepreneurs Fail…

Musicians Can Make Money Renting Their Gear With Sparkplug

Can This Company Save Streaming… And The (Independent) Music Industry?

Mark Cuban’s Soundwave Wants to be “The Instagram of Music”

Lively Runs Out of Money and Shuts Down…

Why BandPage Is Going To Be The Most Powerful Player In Music

Beats Music Off to a Sucky Start…

Neil Young’s Pono Kickstarter Approaching $5.5 Million…