Releases Dear Lover at Indie Music Stores

The indie artist talks about his latest release Dear Lover, the music industry and performs the title track. Ryan has released his album at a indie music store near you. Check out the list of stores here.

Third Eye Blind had their time in the mainstream spotlight, but wanted to continue to make music. Embracing all the internet, music industry and technological resources that have been able to brand their name once again.

What do you do when you feel like your business has lost its identity?

Members of the band “Third Eye Blind” know that situation all too well. After years in the mainstream, they took back control of their brand by going independent.

Check out the video feature on MSNBC here.

Indie on Air! & Music in Action w/ host “Classic”

The Voice of Independent Music featuring industry professionals & great indie music.
Indie on Air! broadcasts live every Friday 12:30pm CST from Chicago via the BlogTalkRadio platform
Music in Action broadcasts live every other Wednesday 2:00pm CST from Chicago via the BlogTalkRadio platform
Both shows are available 24/7 as an archive immediately following the live broadcasts.

Q) Tell us a little bit about your Internet radio show. What inspired you to start it?

So… you want to be in the music business? There are a lot of you out there. I know this because I own a music PR firm and every time we put out a call for interns or jobs, we get somewhere between 100 – 250 resumes. Once upon a time, I was just like you- dying to follow my passion and aggressively trying to land a job in the industry of my dreams. It was a humbling and, at times, humiliating exercise so this dear young aspiring music business mogul is for you. Interns are much needed in every facet of the industry, and most of my music industry friends (myself included) started out as unpaid interns back in their day and we leveraged our unpaid internships into paying jobs.

If you live in or near New York or LA, this guide will be easy to follow step by step. But if you don’t, do not fret. You will be amazed at how many small music companies are thriving in practically every city and state.

It seems like the dawn of a bold new era for the music industry, especially if you’re an indie artist. Major labels are going down, and indies are on the rise, right? It sounds nice, but an article posted today by Fortune (which can be found these days on CNNmoney.com) claims that the indie boom is, in fact, the single greatest thing ever to happen to the majors. Why? Because all the money, and all the talent, is still flowing up.

Here’s How It Works:

For the last decade, major labels haven’t had the cash they once did to promote artists, which means 3 things:

• Fewer artists are being signed.
• Less marketing heft is being put behind musicians that do get signed.
• Bands that aren’t successful after the first single are dropped. Fast.

I wrote a piece a while back about 4 emerging trends in the music industry that will affect every music artist from here on out. In this piece, I want to focus instead on some more general trends in the way we do business and interact in society today that will affect every music artist enormously. It doesn’t matter whether you’re doing Christian Rock or hip hop or whatever. Everybody will be equally affected.

Massive paradigm shifts like the one we’re going through right now unleash tremendous disruptive forces. Industries fall on them. But new industries also rise on them. What we’re seeing now with the thickening web of cyberconnectivity is a tremendous paradigm shift every bit as important as that ushered in by the printing press or the Industrial Revolution. It’s here to stay.

The degree to which the music industry has ignored the future is criminal. It’s hurt a lot of people. It’s confused a lot of Indie Music types. Including maybe you. Think about American Idol. Here’s a hugely popular show that propagates the dusty old notion that music is still about “getting signed.”

That notion is a virus that will corrupt your mind if you engage it strongly enough. And I have no doubt that far too many of you still have this virus planted somewhere in the dark shadows of your mind. Maybe you’ve already accepted that the music industry has dramatically changed over the last 8 years. Maybe you already understand that the labels are screwed.

BandCentral is excited to confirm their invitation to showcase at the inaugural MidemNet Lab, at the MIDEM music conference in Cannes, France, from 23rd – 27th January 2010.

The MidemNet Lab will shine a spotlight on 15 of the brightest start-ups bringing innovative digital solutions to the music industry.

Hand-picked by leaders in the field, including Music Ally, Spotify, Seesmic, SoundCloud, Topspin and Hype Machine, the MidemNet Lab will serve as a ‘form guide’ for the start-ups set to make waves in the digital music industry in 2010.

As with any new development, there is a ton of speculation regarding the emergence of the Indie market for new music. Of course, nobody knows with 100% certainty, but if history is a good indicator, then much of the speculation will turn out to be wrong 5 years down the road when we look back. 

While I am among those who speculate, I have no special powers of seeing the future so there are no guarantees that I will be correct. Luckily, few will remember those who were wrong in their prognostications. In fact, few will remember those who were correct as we will have all moved on to something more compelling by that time. It will no longer matter unless we happen to be historians. I have no interest in looking back to say whether I was right or wrong. But, I do have an interest in the music industry.
 
First, I believe it is important to understand the forces that exist. Most understand the power of money and influence in this business of music, so it really makes sense for us to give consideration to it. That is, money and influence will continue to be a factor. However, there is a new force in town that will change the overall composition of the previous infrastructure. 

Indie or pop artists are somewhat independent artists, whose music does not comply with the trends of the common commercial music industry. Their music genre is thus, what makes them stand unique from the rest of the music fraternity.

To understand in better way, let us explore as how and why this trend of pop artists started. Indie artists started as aggressive bands during 1970s. They made music and songs for people, who shared similar ideology as theirs. The trend passed on and now, there are numerous pop artists in the music industry.

MyMusicCircle.com is a “Workspace” that has a database setup for people in the music industry to get professionals to complete a project.

Anyone who needs to find/hire a professional in the music/entertainment industry to work on a project, a gig, a job, an internship, a collaboration, etc, according to the Web site.

Clients who need projects completed can create a profile showcasing the project terms and agreement. On the flip-side, pros can bid on jobs offered on the site.