By Ryan Van Etten on 11/07/2010
What’s normal in New York is not normal in Fargo. Location changes costs. You’re in a touring band? You might want to consider this when booking shows and pricing merch/tickets. Expect higher expenses in the more expensive cities, but at the same time, expect fans to be willing to pay relatively more. To help gauge the spectrum, here’s a comparison of living costs in 100 U.S. cities that may be on your tour map.
Posted in Editorial, Infoculture, Music, Music Flux, News, Visual | Tagged BAH rates, bands, big media, business, cities, comparison, cost of living, entertainment spending, infographic, live music, location, merch, MusicBiz, NYC, on tour, pay what you want, price points, price variation, San Francisco, stats, strategy, touring |
By Ryan Van Etten on 06/17/2010
Free streaming music sorted by urban scene? Powered by SoundCloud and packaged in a slick UI, CitySounds—dubbed ‘the music of cities’—is just that. Uploads are pushed to CitySounds in realtime—the music is fresh. Flickr adds style to the mix by displaying related photos. Listeners can see the most active cities and the most popular genres in each.
Posted in Apps, iPhone Apps, Music, Music Flux, News, Reviews | Tagged app review, cities, citysounds.fm, drum and bass, dubstep, electronica, flickr, local music, location, location-based music, London, mashups, music discovery, music mashup, music scenes, realtime music, SoundCloud, techno |
By Ryan Van Etten on 06/03/2010
In the sea of music blogs, best means most relevant to the reader. How can bands or listeners find blogs in their genre? How can they find blogs in a specific city? Google is an obvious search tool for most topics, but to really get in the trenches and find smaller indie blogs, here are five super-effective search techniques. Includes live music photos.
Posted in Music, Music Flux, News, Popular | Tagged blog aggregators, bloggers, Cymbals Eats Guitars, Delicious, Elbo.ws, genres, Google, Hype Machine, indie, Japandroids, last.fm, live music, location, music blog search, music bloggers, MusicBiz, No Age, noise pop, photos, resources, rock/pop, search relevance, search trends, similar artists, social media, stumbleupon, tips, Titus Andronicus, Twitter |
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/18/2010
Bandcamp added artist/song tagging to its slew of features yesterday, and hopes are high that more social music features are in store. As a self-professed tag-a-holic I’m pretty stoked about the news, and especially so because I had emailed them suggesting a tagging feature. Bandcamp artists can now list themselves in up to five genres, they can add their location, and they can add specific traits to individual tracks in the form of tags.
Posted in Design, Discussion, Editorial, Music Flux, News, Reviews | Tagged Amie Street, bandcamp, behavior, community, crowdsourcing, data, Delicious, design review, geotagging, ideas, last.fm, location, music discovery, music intelligence, new features, recommendation engine, search, social bookmarking, social media, social music, tagging, thesixtyone |
By Ryan Van Etten on 11/03/2009
Enter the mobile music frontier—the age of the app is here—and you don’t need to be a developer to create your own iPhone app anymore. Here are three four platforms that enable artists to build their own custom mobile applications.
Posted in Apps, Editorial, iPhone Apps, Music, Music Flux, Popular, Reviews | Tagged Android, app review, app services, Apple, Apps, bands, Blackberry, development, Facebook, framework, geotagging, iLike, integration, IODA, iPhone, iTunes, Kyte, localized, location, m-commerce, media, MixMatchMusic, MobBase, mobile, mobile music, Mobile Roadie, mobility, musicians, MySpace, Nokia, platform, promo code, revenue, services, social media, social music, streaming, Twitter, YouTube |
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