by tljay
For the first time ever in the existence of tunelab.com, we’ll have a “_____ of the year” award we’ll be giving out in various categories. Categories will include Album of the year, Debut Album of the year, Single of the year, and more of the typical stuff, but if you have suggestions for specific categories [...]
Categories: Blog • Tags: awards, of the year, TuneLab
by tljay
This past Sunday, a band tweeted they were playing near me that night. When I read the tweet, it was too late for me to make plans to get to the show. That’s the third time in two weeks that’s happened to me. So the question is this: how am I supposed to know about [...]
Categories: Blog • Tags: Bandsintown, Concerts, Pollstar
by tljay
Remember when your local rock station was at every concert you were at? Remember when they used to talk about them on air? Remember when they at least listed the concerts on their website?? What happened? Obviously, there are still good rock stations out there tied into the local music scene, but many more seemingly [...]
Categories: Blog • Tags: occupyfmradio, radio, unsigned
by tljay
Google Music announced yesterday what pretty much everybody was expecting — a music store that puts purchased music into your cloud locker that you can access from any browser. What wasn’t quite expected (although I had mentioned I was hoping for it) was allowing artists to upload their own music and manage their own sales. [...]
Categories: Blog • Tags: artists, DIY, Google, Google Music
by tljay
If somebody wants to start an “Occupy FM Radio” movement, I would offer my full support and assistance. We could focus on how over 99% of music played is from signed bands (unsigned bands could chant “We are the (less than) 1%!!!”), or how 31% of all songs played over a week on one station [...]
Categories: Blog • Tags: occupy radio, occupyfmradio, radio