Tagged: music

March 15, 2014 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

PonoPlayer in Top Ten Most Funded on Kickstarter. The Pono digital music player, created by rock star Neil Young and an experienced team of professionals, has crushed their crowdfunding goal of raising $800,000.  If you blinked you missed it, as they hit that target almost… Read More

March 11, 2014 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Perpetual rock musician Neil Young recently announced his new music device and service Pono.  He is presenting tonight at SXSW to share his vision for the future of high fidelity streaming music.  Young has been vocal about current streaming music services and their inferior audio… Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 12:09 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

PledgeMusic has released a major redesign of their crowdfunding platform for musicians, but there is more to the redesign than just a facelift. This represents a big strategic shift for the platform, and one that says quite a bit about crowdfunding strategy for musicians and… Read More

February 19, 2014 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Country artist Erika Cole is launching  a unique crowdfunding campaign on EarlyShares.  Erika, managed by Capri Nashville, has announced a hybrid funding campaign for both equity in her business and rewards for her fans. Erika is an acclaimed songwriter and vocalist, formally trained at Berklee… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Island Records and Indiegogo have announced a partnership that will provide a new place to discover emerging artists on a global basis.   “Fan Republic” is being marketed as the first collaboration of its kind between a music label and a crowdfunding platform. Fan Republic… Read More

February 5, 2014 @ 9:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Australian rock band Twelve Foot Ninja took to Australia-based crowdfunding platform Pozible in an effort to crowdfund a music video. The campaign ended in May of 2013 after raising $52,600 on a goal of $45,000. The big news at the time was that the campaign… Read More

January 25, 2014 @ 6:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

The 56th Annual Grammy Awards will take place this Sunday (January 25) featuring all of today’s favorite performers and then some.  Well as far as I am concerned – it is not the fact that Madonna will be performing live at the event but the… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 9:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Multifaceted crowdfunding platform Pozible is now offering musicians the opportunity to have their crowdfunded albums, singles (yes both physical and digital) plus merchandise orders fulfilled by MGM’s retail subsidiary, Waterfront Records.  As described by Pozible this allows music crowdfunders to: Fulfill the crowdfunding orders of your album, singles (physical and digital) and/or merchandise…. Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 9:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

North Korea is known as the “hermit kingdom” in part for the regime’s general disdain for western culture. So, imagine my shock when I came across this music video from two Washington DC rappers shot in North Korea. How did they do it? It started… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 7:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Privately owned Great British Banjo Company, based in Norwich, Norfolk, UK, which crowdfunded on Kickstarter last year has announced their successful crowdfunding campaign has led to the creation of several new jobs.  The company claims to be the “first affordable banjo to be manufactured in Britain… Read More

January 2, 2014 @ 10:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Vans Warped Tour is a yearly music and extreme sports festival that takes place every summer as it has for the past 18 years. Hundreds of bands have played the tour since inception, which aims to give kids access to over 80 bands in… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Mike Mowery and Nikhil Potdar are with Outerloop Management, a company specializing in the management of bands, specifically hardcore and metal bands. Both have helped clients launch a handful of successful crowdfunding campaigns. They’ve increasingly been using Indiegogo as their platform of choice lately, which… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 1:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

HiddenRadio2 Crushes Goal in Under 5 Hours. HiddenRadio originally successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter a bit over two years ago.  Product creators John VDN and Vitor Santa Maria have spent the past two years listening to feedback from backers and customers.  After the extended hiatus they… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Song Backer is a way for fans to back a cover song to be performed by their favorite musician. Song Backer, a new music tech startup, has launched their beta site and is asking musicians to sign up and bring their fans to request songs,… Read More

November 25, 2013 @ 11:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Inman News | Real estate crowdfunding: why it’s a big deal Real estate is a nice vertical in the crowdfunding space, and I’m particularly excited about the opportunities the niche brings to non-accredited investors who may not have the means to invest in real estate… Read More

November 25, 2013 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Niche crowdfunding platforms are growing in popularity as some realize that a one-size-fits-all approach to crowdfunding isn’t always best. Pledgemusic is one such platform. The site launched in 2009 in an effort to cut the middlemen out of the music experience for the fan, allowing… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Landfill Harmonic a heartwarming story about children using recycled trash to create instruments and make beautiful music in the barrios of Paraguay, was featured on news magazine 60 Minutes last night.  This incredible story only came to popular attention when their was a crowdfunding campaign… Read More

November 12, 2013 @ 12:49 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Light Harmonic has done this crowdfunding thing before. Specifically, they completed a campaign to the tune of $303,000+ on Kickstarter in September of this year for the Geek Out, a digital-to-analog converter for laptops that aimed to pump up the tunes coming out of a… Read More

October 28, 2013 @ 10:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jeffrey Gaskill is a Grammy-nominated executive music producer with a passion for the blues, and he has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a tribute album for Blind Willie Johnson. Blind Willie Johnson is a hugely influential blues musician that popularized many hymnal and gospel… Read More

October 15, 2013 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

For anyone who is interested in running a music project on Kickstarter AND you happen to be in NYC this Thursday, they are holding a meetup at mission control from 9:30AM to 11:30M. “Come meet the friendly faces of Kickstarter, fellow members of the music community… Read More