Tagged: music

July 29, 2013 @ 9:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Leave your guitar at home and play a beautiful Gibson acoustic guitar! Rockethub Takeoff Tuesday begins with a Open Mic/Songwriter workshop; followed by musicians and bands below. 9PM – DAMN GLAD 10PM – AARON LAVIGNE 11PM – PETE LANCTOT

July 22, 2013 @ 10:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

FeedTheArts is a “Time Funding” crowdfunding site where fans to contribute to an Artist’s project by donating their time rather than money. After years of perfecting the model, FeedTheArts has used Time Funding,  held Tuesday, July 16, to fund a recording project at the world… Read More

July 16, 2013 @ 8:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on SeedInvest Groups, a product aimed at angel groups and other investor networks. Recently the STAR Angel Network leveraged SeedInvest groups to close a round for Cincinnati-based mobile app startup LISNR. It’s a somewhat ridiculous event: hop on a bus to SXSW,… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 3:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Loog Guitar was crowdfunded on Kickstarter back in 2011 – raising a total amount of $65,618 on a goal of $15,000.  The premise was simple:  a three stringed guitar which was easy to handle and simple to learn, teaching the joy of playing a guitar… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Australia’s newest crowdfunding site has launched – ZoshPit.  The platform is a dedicated music crowdfunding site,  ZoshPit’s mission is to revolutionise the Australian music  industry by offering a platform tailored to the needs of artists, bands  and musicians. ZoshPit is the only crowdfunding platform based… Read More

June 8, 2013 @ 9:51 am By WXRT  |  

Once again a positive note for the Chicago landmark and home of Blues Legend, Muddy Waters. The house at 4339 S. Lake Park Ave. was Muddy’s home for twenty years. If you haven’t been following this story you may want to start at the beginning, here…. Read More

June 3, 2013 @ 8:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Enterprising and adventerous musicians everywhere are drooling… The OWL is an open source, open hardware, reprogrammable effects pedal designed for musicians, coders, and hackers. With a little bit of C++ hackery the OWL can be made to sound like just about anything. This is music… Read More

May 27, 2013 @ 11:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Greg Puciato is lead singer of popular hardcore act The Dillinger Escape Plan, and he had some pointed words about the crowdfunding space as it relates to artists and musicians. He basically makes an argument that asking for money as a prerequisite to making art… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

May 2, 2013 @ 8:29 am By Hypebot  |  

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

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

April 1, 2013 @ 10:21 am By Vice  |  

Last week when I logged onto Facebook to catch up on political Willy Wonka pictures and my friends’ general bellyaching about the weather, the words “musical prodigy” and “Kickstarter” jumped out at me. Being a sucker for a good oxymoron and already having mixed feelings… Read More