Author: Daniel Cross

The gig listings Facebook app ConcertCrowd has teamed up with Rdio to give people the opportunity to stream tracks from the artists which are visiting their local venue soon. hypebot.com...

As you might of noticed, a few websites went down on Wednesday, in protest of the new SOPA legislation being brought into the US Congress. Google, Wikipedia joined in, while Wired had the most inspired take on the argument. creativity-online.com...

Not only did 2011 see vinyl sales hit a two decade peak in the US, but that peak also came courtesy of independent stores, with 67% of sales from from them. digitalmusicnews.com...

Kodak is in the mists of reorganization. While struggling to re-brand as a digital development company they’ve had to borrow $950million from Citigroup to help them along the process. allthingsd.com...

Foursqaure has just teamed up with SinglePlatform to now deliver menu’s for restaurants, as an attempt to take on competitor Yelp. allthingsd.com...

Asda have re-branded their online store to push their non-food items. The clothing line, George, in particular, is being pushed on the digital platforms to engage with new customers who might not go into an Asda shop. marketingmagazine.co.uk...

Live Nation have allowed Big Champagne founders (who they own) Eric Garland and Joe Fleischer to put together a team to work out how to push the live music industry into the future (i.e. how to keep people paying purchase fees for tickets which most...

Investment raising site Kickstarter helped musicians raise over $19million dollars last year, proving that people do want to help musicians. Just not the big ones who also appear on zShare. digitalmusicnews.com...