Tagged: music

March 28, 2013 @ 7:39 pm By John Biggs  |  

Austin-based Moniker Guitars is running a Kickstarter campaign to create a line of semi-hollow-body guitars for discerning git-fiddlists. The company will offer their first guitars for a $700 pledge, not bad for a hand-made guitar from rockabilly city. The company is looking for $50,000 to start and… Read More

March 24, 2013 @ 2:15 pm By The Age  |  

Musicians are used to numbers that measure their success, from their position on the charts to a gig’s attendance figure. But for some the most important number now is the amount they have raised for their next project through crowdfunding. Using the internet to put… Read More

February 12, 2013 @ 5:18 am By TheMusic.com.au  |  

Australian indie stalwarts Underground Lovers announced on Thursday night, at midnight, that they would be using crowdfunding platform Pledge Music to raise the revenue required to make Weekend, the follow up album to 2011’s Wonderful Things. The band reached their financial goal over the weekend, with 100 percent of… Read More

February 9, 2013 @ 7:13 am By FasterLouder  |  

Eskimo Joe have completed the most successful crowdfunding exercise by an Australian artist through the Pozible website. In November of last year the band announced they were seeking $40,000 to pay for the independent recording of their sixth album, having parted ways with their label. As of… Read More

February 9, 2013 @ 3:16 am By MetalUnderground  |  

Man Must Die has checked in with the following announcement about starting a crowd funding campaign to record a new album: “Be a huge part of the next Man Must Die CD, Lets make this album together. It’s been a couple of years since we… Read More

January 14, 2013 @ 3:53 am By DenverPost  |  

In the olden days of pagers and VHS tapes, when you needed help with tuition you might hop on the landline to dial up your grandparents. If you were planning a trip abroad, you could comb through your Rolodex to shake down friends who still… Read More

January 11, 2013 @ 5:22 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) The band “The body of the Lito” is kicking off its campaign tomorrow to seek support for its first record, counting on the collaboration of Manuel Manquiña (a Spanish actor from Galicia). Five new bands are asking for public support to produce their… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 11:58 am By Ariel Hyatt, Music Think Tank  |  

Over the last several months, I’ve been helping Ariel to prepare for the launch of her crowd funding campaign (which went live on Monday!). While we were doing our research, we came across article after article saying the same few things about crowd funding preparation… Read More

December 27, 2012 @ 4:13 pm By Hypebot  |  

2012 was a big year for music crowdfunding. Though crowdfunding isn’t new, this year was marked by a general buildout of the music crowdfunding space from new services to wide ranging campaigns, outstanding crowdfunding campaigns on the parts of musicians with powerful fanbases and the notable emergence of concert crowdfunding as a… Read More

December 26, 2012 @ 1:03 am By The Post Journal  |  

10,000 Maniacs’ PledgeMusic.com crowd-funding campaign reached its goal Friday, allowing the band to independently release a new album entitled “Music From The Motion Picture.” According to Steve Gustafson, founding member of 10,000 Maniacs, the band went with PledgeMusic.com to fund the new album because it… Read More

December 21, 2012 @ 1:01 pm By Hypebot  |  

he Zappa Family Trust is attempting to raise funds to complete the film The Roxy Performances for theatrical and DVD release. Focused on concerts from 1973, they are offering 1000 people the chance to be a “distributor” with their own copy of the “CD Duplication Master” for $1000. From… Read More

December 20, 2012 @ 7:59 am By LA Weekly  |  

Boy band Allstar Weekend are Poway’s answer to One Direction. The San Diego county-bred group got its start on the Disney Channel music competition Next Big Thing back in 2009. They took second place on that show, but the exposure helped the band ink a four-album deal… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 1:25 am By JD Alois  |  

  (Staff Translation) C.J. Ramone from the punk band Ramones, is seeking online donors for his first solo album «Reconquista». The Crowdfunding campaign is already online, as reported by the agency in charge in Berlin. For the 47 year old, the album „is a tribute… Read More

November 23, 2012 @ 8:33 am By The Sydney Morning Herald  |  

TWO weekends ago in London, music executive Dick Miller was chilling at home. His wife asked him to listen to something that had been recommended to her on Spotify, the new internet music streaming service. It was a Melbourne band, The April Maze, so little… Read More

November 8, 2012 @ 7:44 am By JD Alois  |  

As reported in MusicWeek, new crowdfunding site is preparing to launch with a focus on Music: The UK’s newest crowd-funding platform BankToTheFuture.com has arrived.  BankToTheFuture is music focused, aiming to support upcoming UK artists, young talent and music innovators raise the funds necessary to release… Read More

October 28, 2012 @ 10:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

The jazz orchestrations of Maria Schneider are the musical equivalent of soufflés from a master chef. Gently penetrating and remarkably resourceful, they yield textures that are often light and feathery, but inlaid with a piquant array of swirling flavors that she resolves in a smooth,… Read More