Our heartiest congrats to our partner and friend, Jimmy Winter of RockDex, who did us all proud by winning the first ever East-2-West New Venture Competition. Woo!
Spearheaded by the Invest Nebraska Corporation and sponsored by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development, among other organizations, the contest highlighted Nebraska-based entrepreneurs.
This past Friday at Omaha’s Haymarket, Jimmy [...]

Written by founding Gang of Four bassist and digital music marketing guru Dave Allen the magnificent essay “Dear Musicians — Please Be Brilliant or Get Out of the Way” has been making the rounds online since it first appeared on Pampelmoose and Fight earlier this month.
Its dominance in the music-blog landscape is easy to understand. [...]

That’s how Britain’s Times Online Labs blog describes the chart below, posted in an entry titled “Do artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?” And if you’re a recording artist looking for a record deal, then, yeah, the big label fat cats probably don’t want you to see this.

The chart shows revenue from [...]

The accolades continue to build for our affiliate, RockDex. The online tool that lets bands locate and measure their social media strides recently made it into music marketing guru Ariel Hyatt’s guide to making it as an indie band: the Indie Maximum Exposure List.
Read a detailed summary and download Ariel’s list at the RockDex [...]

On a recent edition of ABC News Now’s What’s the Buzz, Howard Han and Deborah Schwartz of GigMaven gave our partner company RockDex a sweet shoutout.

GigMaven is an awesome online tool that facilitates the booking process for musicians, promoters and venue owners by providing a place to network and organize data. Deborah explains that GigMaven [...]

Many thanks to Silicon Prairie News for catching up with our boys Jimmy, Shannon and David after they barnstormed the countryside, repping RockDex at CMJ, the FEST and Midwest Connect in the final weeks of October.
Our prairie dawgs at SPN were even kind enough to post this video, taken at the National Association of Recording [...]