TMV Video Interview: David Coutier-Dutton, CEO – Slicethepie

The Music Void – David Courtier-Dutton on MUZU.

SellaBand To “Bring The Noise” To The States

Notorious hip-hop group Public Enemy has teamed up with SellaBand for their next album with the intention of raising $250,000 for their next album. By selling 10,000 ‘shares’ in increments of $25, the group hope to cover “complete recording costs and expenses … [and] fund a strategic marketing plan for [the album’s] worldwide release … [...]

DIY Shouldn’t Mean Do It ALL Yourself PART 4: Interview with Daniel Ward-Murphy

The next interview in our DIY series where we explore the artists’ viewpoints on what problems needs fixing most urgently and how they are currently managing their careers with many new digital opportunities and market challenges, is London based Irishman and singer songwriter Daniel Ward-Murphy. Simply put, I like his stuff, but I am partial [...]

Raising Money for Music Startups

Milton Berle – “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” There are lots of ideas floating around aiming to eliminate the perpetual dark cloud hovering over the music industry’s future. Where there is peril there is opportunity for profit as the Phoenix rises from the flames. Some of these ideas become the seeds of numerous [...]

Evolution of the Fan Funded Model…

Yesterday fan-funded model Slicethepie announced a global partnership with social network Bebo. The deal brings an interesting twist to the evolution of these fan funded models in that it means artist who successfully secure funding via Slice the pie will receive money to record an album, promotion on the Bebo homepage and potential featured artist [...]

EconMusic Conference Report

Chris Mclellan and myself from The Music Void had the pleasure of attending the EconMusic conference yesterday. The irony of the event being set amongst the dinosaurs of the Natural History Museum in London was lost on no one. Kicking of the day’s event was Geoff Taylor CEO of the BPI. He stated that only [...]

Why Social Music Is The Future

Forget about Celebrity DJs. Keep your Princeton, Oxford and Harvard educated broadsheet critics. Ignore the hacks at NME and Rolling Stone. The people who actually shape our musical tastes live and work among us each and every day. Maybe it was your sister and her friends who played Candy-O by The Cars after school one [...]

Report on the Great Escape Festival & Conference, Brighton, 15th – 17th May 2008

Hot Flash: New models embracing fan participation prior to the recording of music are working!

This report will provide a brief overview of the music seminars organised by the consultancy group MusicAlly for the Great Escape Festival. I’ll also present a round up of the live music showcased over the weekend.