ASCAP, BMI, and SOCAN Unify Publisher Registration as MusicMark
By Kira Grunenberg This is no April Fool’s joke. Today marks the first full day of activity for newly launched collaborative endeavor, MusicMark. But what is MusicMark and why would someone possibly think of its existence as a prank? It might have something to do with the idea that multiple performing rights organizations (PROs) are
BandPage Is on Its Way to Being the Largest Musician’s Platform
BandPage, the online presence management platform for musicians, has announced another successful investment series. Now up to $28 million in funding, BandPage will use the capital to continue fostering relationships with the foremost music services, while creating and solidifying new revenue streams for musicians. BandPage is used by more than 500,000 musicians to reach billions
Balance Mastering Shares Funktion-One Impulse Responses from The Hive Project
London-based mastering house Balance Mastering has released a free set of impulse responses from the Funktion-One sound system at The Hive Project nightclub. Funktion One is known as the industry standard in club systems for their clean, painstakingly-tuned output, installed in the most iconic electronic music venues around the world (Funktion-One founder Tony Andrews even
Apply Now: MIDI HACK at Spotify Stockholm
By Ruben Lone. A new music technology hackathon is headed to Stockholm, Sweden in May. MIDI HACK, a day-long, 24 hour hackathon, will bring together a community of industry leaders, start-ups, software developers, hardware fanatics and musicians to celebrate the protocols and technologies at the foundation of analog and digital music creation. The event will focus primarily
London’s Music Tech Fest Comes to Boston
By Kira Grunenberg With a plethora of digital devices and music players perforating modern life, you’d think that the relationship between music and technology would be a more widely discussed topic. Despite the many startups that merge tech and music, a dedicated platform that brings together the growing, lucrative music technology sector is still quite
Traktor Audio 2: Tiny, Loud, and Portable
By Ruben Lone Native Instruments has released the newest, smallest device in its line of digital DJ hardware, the Traktor Audio 2. As “the world’s smallest audio interface,” the Audio 2 is an ultra-compact, high-quality sound card, processing audio at 24-bit/48 kHz. Made for use with Traktor’s iOS app Traktor DJ, as well as the Traktor