Cameron Farrelly Account Dir Music Marketing Partnerships | THE MUSiC VOiD

Notice how often the word "Brand" is used and how infrequently the word "band" is used. These are not typos. Very interesting read about the industry.

Cameron Farrelly Account Dir Music Marketing Partnerships | THE MUSiC VOiD:

Restorm.com Launches Cloud Service That Radically Automates Music Licensing, Inks Rumblefish Music - Times Union

Restorm.com Launches Cloud Service That Radically Automates Music Licensing, Inks Rumblefish Music - Times Union: "The service announced a partnership with Rumblefish today, the world’s largest catalog for social media licenses that has closed deals with more than 5 million private users over the friendlymusic.com platform.

rightclearing simplifies the overly complex and antiquated existing procedure of music licensing by adding modern search technology, automated contracts and an easy payment process.

This allows anyone to simply purchase licenses for their project, whether for commercial or private use. By making it accessible to independent artist as well, rightclearing opens up and democratizes the music licensing business."

MySpace Thanks Facebook for Recent Success - Technorati Social Media

MySpace ruled the early years of public social networking in the internet. The service provided non-technical savvy users journal-style blogging to share with other users and to the general public. It also provided other basic features you would see in a standard website, such as a gallery of your favorite photos and sharing your favorite videos. The service also helped would-be musicians and artists from all walks of life to promote their music to the masses as a means of getting discovered by the music industry. Some five year slater, Facebook, a brand-new social networking service, emerged as MySpace’s sole competitor. Unfortunately for MySpace, Facebook’s easy-to-use interface and more user-friendly features won the hearts of users that it made MySpace a thing in the past.

Read more: http://technorati.com/social-media/article/myspace-thanks-facebook-for-recent-success/#ixzz1mYXngIYt

First Audition Day of the Year

I was so very fortunate to meet with an amazing group of potential Pop Music students today as they came to campus and participated in an in-person audition day.  I do love my job!

Popular Music Student is in Seventeen Magazine

William Paterson University Popular Music Studies student is in this month's issue of Seventeen Magazine.  He's been busy in New York City lately doing live radio interview coinciding with the his release of "Tightrope".  More on Danny here.