Submission Phase of Detroit Music Awards is Underway!

Loud Feed is posting this message from Howard Hertz, President, Detroit Music Awards. Winning awards is certainly an important aspect of growing your career.

PHASE ONE OF VOTING FOR THE 2009 DETROIT MUSIC AWARDS HAS BEGUN AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL FEBRUARY 18TH!

OUR NEW WEBSITE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION BUT WE ARE READY TO TAKE SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTER NEW MEMBERS TO VOTE!

PLEASE READ THE GUIDELINES BELOW AND THEN GO TO OUR NEW WEBSITE

www.detroitmusicawards.net to submit candidates for the 2009 AWARDS SHOW – TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH AT THE FILLMORE DETROIT!!!

Video Makes Your Music Better

Watch this excellent video mix by VJ LucidHouse that I found on Vimeo. This video really takes you into an entirely new space and really enhances the experience for the listener/ viewer.

Soon Loud Feed will be creating an “Artist Marketplace” to help music people connect with video people and others, who have skills that musicians need for their business team to be successful.

How to Build Your Fanbase with Social Networking

Watch this video about “Google Friend Connect” to learn about how you can add social networking to your web site.

What’s really cool about this is the single signon feature. Many of your visitors will not have to register to login, if for example they are already registered with Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID (which works with WordPress and many other services).

Loud Feed gives you the right digital tools. Now you want a person who can promote your music widgets to bloggers.

Do you have some on your staff who can promote your music like this guy? In just a few  minutes watching this video you can learn a lot about music promotion from this Indie Marketing Guru.

Credits: Aziz is Bored

Advertising and Your Music

Ani DiFranco Interview + Panel Discussion About Advertising

You can watch two clips I put into a “Think Tank” in MyFora.TV account. Unfortunately they do not offer an embed video option. I suppose it would be too complicated to pass through all the interactive features they offer on their site. The “Think Tank” option lets you grab segments from longer videos and combine them to host discussions about your video collection.

The second clip is a panel discussion – Sep. 17, 2007 – Commonwealth Club

The Future of Music Part II: Copy Rights and Wrongs with discussants Chris Castle, Tim Westergren and Eion Harrington. Richard French moderates.

What do artist rights and creative license mean in the rapidly evolving world of entertainment? What’s really wrong with the music industry, and how can new technologies and business models help change that? What does an ideal world of both consumer and artist needs look like, and who will be in charge? Representatives from all sides of these questions wrestle with the future of music and digital rights for creators, consumers and corporations.

Mobile Apps: Google I/O 2008 – An Introduction to Android

This post is definitely for the geekier among the readers of this blog. Android offers infinite opportunities for mobile applications. Significant contributions to the seismic shift in the power structure of the emerging new music industry will utilize this platform. Loud Feed will soon roll out some of our own tools for Android.

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Dana Boyd

Understanding social networking is essential to the new music industry

iLike Teams up with Tunecore to Help Artists Sell Their Music

TechCrunch reported on October 19, 2008 that: “Popular music service iLike has teamed with TuneCore, a music distribution platform, to help artists promote and sell their music as easily as possible.”
Full disclosure: the author of this post is Ron Suarez, President of Loud Feed. Tunecore is a client of Loud Feed.