May 16, 2013 @ 9:49 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Scottish Community Group DD8 Music has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a memorial to longtime AC/DC frontman Bon Scott in his hometown of Kirriemuir, and the project just received the blessing from the band. At the 2013 Bonfest in Kirriemuir, Scotland, the funding campaign for the Bon Scott statue to be erected in Bon’s hometown… Read More

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May 16, 2013 @ 8:05 am By LA Weekly  |  

For years, Berlin-based singer/multi-instrumentalist Chris Corner has been working alone. Originally from the U.K. and having first came to prominence in the 1990s as part of the electronic group Sneaker Pimps, he has self-produced his last four albums as IAMX. Sometimes, he even directed his own videos. For IAMX’s fifth album, The Unified Field, however, Corner enlisted… Read More

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May 12, 2013 @ 9:54 am By Forbes  |  

Jack Conte is nothing if not inventive when it comes to creating  music. One half of the YouTube sensation Pomplamoose, Conte’s ability to play nearly any instrument imaginable while creating amazingly entertaining “videosongs” with his fellow band member Nataly Dawn has resulted in the duo garnering a huge following since they first started posting work on YouTube… Read More

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May 9, 2013 @ 9:47 am By Music Business Journal  |  

Over the last fifteen years, since the advent of the worldwide web, there has been a revolution in the world of finance. More money is being raised online today than ever before from crowds of like-minded investors, consumers, and communities of fans, especially in the creative arts. The phenomenon is global and has all the… Read More

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May 2, 2013 @ 2:30 pm By CFI Correspondent  |  

Zivix to Donate JamStiks to Children’s Cancer Association MyMusicRx Program; Contributing to the “Healing Power of Music”. Zivix, LLC, a developer leveraging innovative technology through peripherals, real musical instruments and software, today announced that the company will be donating multiple JamStiks to the Children’s Cancer Association (CCA). The donation of the company’s portable, easy-to-use guitar-like instrument… Read More

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May 2, 2013 @ 8:29 am By Hypebot  |  

CrowdOutlet is joining the cadre of sites offering post-campaign e-commerce services.

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April 29, 2013 @ 7:00 am By The Telegraph  |  

Morrissey is able to sell out 20,000 capacity venues and stop meat being sold where he plays, but he hasn’t been able to get a record deal since releasing his 2009 album Years of Refusal. So Amanda Palmer, singer-songwriter and half of American band The Dresden Dolls, has offered to help Morrissey out by raising… Read More

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April 24, 2013 @ 5:28 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

“Renman Live!” is an online video series created by longtime Incubus producer Steve Rennie. “Renman” as he is affectionately referred to is now focused on helping musicians and music professionals learn about the business. Crowdfunding, then, was a natural topic for one of his recent episodes. The episode features Karen Bair, a music crowdfunding expert… Read More

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April 23, 2013 @ 10:02 am By Huffington Post  |  

Jordan Rudess is a fascinating amalgam of a musician. He’s primarily known as the keyboardist, Continuum-player, multi-instrumentalist for the Grammy-nominated prog rock/metal icons Dream Theater. Beyond that, the classically trained Julliard pianist has a fascination with technology. His company, Wizdom Music, has also released a number of apps for iOS and Android devices. Continuing to push the envelope,… Read More

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April 19, 2013 @ 1:41 pm By Forbes  |  

I have a rock and roll band. It’s called Black Hi-Lighter. Right now, we’re halfway through a rite of passage: the Kickstarter campaign. The first rule of how not to fail at Kickstarter is: Please pledge your support! Or, in other words, start shameless. Ours is a simple goal: $3500 to put our new record on vinyl,… Read More

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April 19, 2013 @ 6:30 am By CFI Correspondent  |  

JamStik, which won an Inventions Award on Popular Science a few weeks ago, has launched a pre-production crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.  And what, exactly is JamStik?  It is a mobile friendly guitar like device that connects to your iOS devices so y0u can learn to play and make music out of the gate.  This is… Read More

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April 17, 2013 @ 5:29 pm By Hypebot  |  

Crowdfunding platforms are at the core of a growing ecosystem of services to support crowdfunding at every stage. One of the more interesting and potentially lucrative developments are online stores created to sell successfully crowdfunded products. Such stores tend to feature gadgets and other physical items that sometimes include DVDs and could certainly include CDs… Read More

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April 17, 2013 @ 5:27 pm By Village Voice  |  

Howdy Fan, Over the past five years my band has built up a modest fan base that largely includes all the wonderful people we have met in the process, and is bankrolled mostly by our three day jobs. We just released our second album on vinyl. To pay for the pressing, we started a Kickstarter… Read More

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April 16, 2013 @ 10:05 am By BoingBoing  |  

The Internet went to sleep last night and tossed and turned with a fever dream of monkeys, mad scientists, and robots. When it awoke, it found that Jonathan Coulton and Greg Pak had launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a series of comic books based on characters from Coulton’s songs. That sound you heard is the… Read More

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April 10, 2013 @ 8:44 am By PandoDaily  |  

When it comes to viral success, Brandon Martinez knows that lightning rarely strikes twice. Martinez is the CEO/Co-founder of INDmusic, the multi-channel network that helped monetize the “Harlem Shake.” Thanks to INDmusic’s technology, every time you watch theMiami Heat or the UGA swim and dive team or your grandparents interpret this upsettingly resilient meme, artist Baauer and his label Mad Decent get… Read More

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