StumbleAudio is Pandora For Indie Music
With the highly successful launch seen by Pandora’s iPhone app, streaming digital radio seems ready to finally go mainstream. Unfortunately, as great as Pandora is, its music recommendations can shy towards music you already know – you may like the song that gets recommended, but there’s a good chance you’ve heard it before. For listeners looking for something that’s entirely new, there’s StumbleAudio, a streaming music service exclusively for indie music that is launching today with a catalog of over 120,000 artists and 2 million songs. [MORE]
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July 22nd, 2008 at 7:39 am
indie record labels…
A topic that has come up again and again on our show is the threatened demise of your favourite, independent record store due to our digital music climate. Terry McBride recently called the indie record store “the last great musical community centre”…
July 30th, 2008 at 9:54 am
indie radio…
Second- These writers seem to infer that the record label’ s will stop being A&R sources. I doubt that will be the case. In the major label’ s case there maybe an argument that their A&R activities will change as they are always on the look out for…
July 31st, 2008 at 7:06 am
Second- These writers seem to infer that the record label’ s will stop being A&R sources. I doubt that will be the case. In the major label’ s case there maybe an argument that their A&R activities will change as they are always on the look out for turning a quick buck. Classic A&R methods should never change- it’ s about finding, filtering and developing over the long term, great bands and musicians. The independent labels thrive on this. In a phone call earlier this year with Megan Jasper at Sub Pop…