Vote on Wired.com who is leading the music revolution. Silly perhaps, but these bands are the ones pushing the industry forward.  

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Perhaps the next step will be groups formed for the sole purpose of providing investment in musicians as if they were entrepreneurs, with the money used by the artist to hire others to help with production, branding and marketing.

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Amie Street has a very innovative, artist-friendly sales model. When musicians first submit a track, it can be downloaded for free. As it becomes popular, its purchase price rises. Both of Ashley Alexendre Dupré’s songs (she’s the former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s “special friend”) are now selling at the site’s maximum price — 98 cents each.

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There’s been alot of talk at South By Southwest (SXSW) about giving back to fans. It may seem obvious but for musicians fans are the key to your success, without them you have nothing. They will come to your shows, buy your music, purchase your t-shirts, so be sure to reward them. Too often the [...]

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What makes this particularly interesting is that the album is available for free and many torrent sites, and that the first 9 tracks of the 36 track album were available for free at the bands website. Perhaps there is a new model developing here…

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AOL acquires the social network site Bebo. For those that might not be familiar with them, Bebo is the largest social network site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand. And the third largest social networking site in the US behind only MySpace and Facebook.

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A great post on how the long tail may help aggregators like Amazon, Netflix as well as 6 Billion consumers, but it is a “mixed blessing” for artists. The solution is to find the midpoint of the long tail, somewhere around 1,000 true fans.

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Following Radiohead’s lead, Nine Inch Nails released their Album on the internet. You can download the first 9 tracks of the 36 track album for free, or purchase the full album online for $5.  By contrast, a CD is $10.  Seems reasonable…

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Two sites in particular help fans fund albums, the hope is to have the fanbase generate revenue and pay for production costs, something that in the past the Labels used to do.

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