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Our friends are throw a pretty great music fest right before SXSW. So you should double up and go to both! Here’s what it’s all about right from their maw. For one incredible weekend, some of modern music’s most eclectic and electrifying bands will be drowning out the mainstream in Savannah, GA. Imm

Radical.fm is part Pandora, partturntable.com. When it launches later this year, this personalized streaming music service includes the ability to “RadCast” streams in real time. A related service,Radical Indie will offer a free, worldwide internet radio service for musicians and fans of unsigned ar

  Got videos of your band? Want to make a little passive cash. Slap some ads on that hoss. Here’s how. —– I was at a digital music event earlier this year, and was shocked to find out how many people had not heard how easy it is to monetize your YouTube channel through Ads. [...]

Ever wish you could sneak a peak at real major label record contract? You can, thanks to Benjamin Burnley, frontman of hard rockers Breaking Benjamin. He’s fired the band guitarist and bassist, Aaron Fincke and Mark Klepaski, and filed launched a lawsuit against them. Burnley claims they have making

Artists and music marketers have been using Facebook heavily for some time now, often working with external startups like RootMusic to ensure their pages are working effectively. Now Facebook has published a document called the Musician’s Playbook, which aims to “help you begin or refine some ideas

You would be hard pressed to NOT have heard of Google+, the newest social networking and sharing tool from Google which after one month of existence boasts around 18 million users. Artists are already bombarded with a plethora of tools to help them connect with their fans, but Google+ truly adds som

Plug and play people. Sign up, jack all your other feeds, sites and social data into this and you’ve got yourself a website. For the truly lazy amongst us all. —- Onesheet aims to solve that quandary by providing musicians with a way to tie together all of their online outlets in one place: from [..

Tour diaries: They are the satisfying sustenance required by every hardcore music fan to feed a band addiction. A glimpse into the backstage, on-tour-bus life of one’s favorite band. Now, thanks to the marvels of modern technology, it’s easier than ever to create a highly visual tour diary to sate t

Are things getting a little crowded online these days? It’s getting a bit tough to stand out. MTT has some ideas and hips a few services…two you already know about and how the industry uses them to keep tabs on you. —– Social networks provide far reaching opportunities for musicians, the only troubl