When people started getting into Bitcoin it seemed pretty clear that if things took off this would be a smart payment option to offer music fans. People into Bitcoin are a self-identified unique audience and in the early days of… Continue Reading
“Meow The Jewels: El-P Auditions Cats” Meow The Jewels is happening Honestly this should have been the subject of my first post after relaunching Crowdfunding For Musicians. El-P and Big Mike are releasing Run The Jewels 2 as a free… Continue Reading
“IndieGoGo My Freedom and Fund The World’s 1st Fan Label” New artists on major labels sometimes get stuck in a situation where the label won’t release their album for whatever reason. That’s where Neon Hitch seems to have landed, based… Continue Reading
New Music Channel aka NMC.TV is an interesting development. It looks like a great opportunity to get your music videos on a new all music video channel available through DirectTV. There’s also a form of crowdfunding as support with Kickstarter-style… Continue Reading
Neil Young Talks Pono, Crowdfunding & Music with Jim Cramer Jim Cramer digs Neil Young. But does he dig the Pono? Check the video to find out. Record-Breaking Crowdfunding Effort Raises $110K For Aussie Musos Australian’s recently raised over $110k… Continue Reading
This Is Schematic Indiegogo recently shared their picks for the Top 12 Music Campaigns of 2012. It’s a nice mix starting out with one from George Clinton: Fundraiser for C Kunspyruhzy and What Production Studios “The renowned king of funk,… Continue Reading
Crowd Surfer at Men Without Hats Concert (Courtesy Photos by Mavis) 2012 was a huge year for music crowdfunding. I wrote about some of last year’s developments for Hypebot, titling it The Year Music Crowdfunding Broke. 2013 will be about… Continue Reading
The iconic crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is now accepting projects from the UK. Kickstarter announced the move three weeks ago and let folks start setting up campaigns at that point. Today those campaigns began going live and a game was first… Continue Reading
Andrew Bird’s South American Campaign (Via Songkick Detour) [Repost of Techdirt article written by Mike Masnick, 10/23/12] Over the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about Songkick’s new “Detour” feature, which artists are using to set up shows in “off… Continue Reading
Hot Chip Performing at Songkick Detour Show (Via Songkick) [Repost of Techdirt article written by Mike Masnick, 10/15/12] We recently wrote about a new feature from Songkick, called Detour, that can be used to crowdsource a concert to guarantee for… Continue Reading
