Below are two links from blogger Netvalar that are helpful starting points for bands looking to grow their online presence. Both links are well thought out and can serve as a tidy checklist.
Five Secrets to Your Music Career:
http://blog.timelineonline.org/2007/10/5-secrets-to-your-music-carreer.html
Six Ways to Expand Internet Awareness:
http://blog.timelineonline.org/2008/01/6-ways-to-expand-your-social-awareness.html

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Are the days of MySpace numbered or is Wired off on another wild tangent?

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Seth Godin’s Music Lessons, a blog about things to learn from the changing music industry, offer many good tidbits to ponder:

(1) The role of digital music is or will become solely promotion. This is because digital music is in unlimited supply, and a market of value can only be created from something of limited suppply. Another recent blog goes further to state that the role of music management will eventually be reduced to promotion only, as musicians can now cheaply and effectively create, edit and distribute music themselves – all roles formerly taken by labels, producers and managers.

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Social media network (and all around player, in all meanings of the word) Imeem has announced that it will buy Anywhere.FM, a San Francisco-based Internet media service.

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David Bryne’s recent piece in Wired Magazine had some great quotes and points that highlight the themes and reasons for V11.

The music business today: “At some point it became a business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. But that’s not bad for music, and its certainly not bad news for musicians. Indeed, with all the ways to reach an audience, there have never been more opportunities for artists.”

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Dave Kusek states in his new book, The Future of Music, that since live performances and t-shirts cannot be digitized at least at the moment, the experience of being at a live event is going to have to get more appealing for bands to survive in the coming years.
This is likley true, although I think [...]

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