News is breaking about music streaming service Beats Music's acquisition of Topspin, a marketing, sales, contact and content management system built for professional musicians.

We’re excited about this new book by Winfred Phillips: A Composer’s Guide to Game Music. Watch a video preview below: Judging by the book preview and table of contents, this looks like a great read for composers at all levels of the industry — those just starting to think about trying their hand at video […]

Pandora has opened up their submission process to all musicians, and we can now submit our music digitally.

Songhack favorites Bandcamp have impressed us even more with a stellar new mobile app. The Bandcamp App for iOS and Android is a window into the big and beautiful Bandcamp music catalog, with all the features you’d expect to need to listen to your tunes on the go. It’s another great value-add for musicians using […]

Among younger listeners, more people get their music from YouTube than any other source. We’re not surprised to see YouTube diving headfirst into redefining the business of music, but it is an exciting development nonetheless. The first news to drop was that YouTube has expanded its paid channel subscription pilot program to all channels with […]

It looks like a newly redesigned version of the awesome home studio program Garageband will be free with all iOS 7 devices, and that is huge news for musicianship around the world.

Last week we learned that 20% of the over 20 million songs on Spotify had never been streamed. Millions of aspiring musicians can sympathize. With the exception of the most well-connected, silver-spooned rock and roll progeny (we’re looking at you, Miley Cyrus), every musician has experienced the dreaded thought: “What if I spend all this […]

DistroKid recently announced they have officially launched a digital distribution service that’s set to disrupt the market currently dominated by TuneCore and CD Baby (and to a lesser extent, OneRPM). DistroKid’s annual cost is more than half of what TuneCore charges for a regular annual subscription. Granted, DistroKid distributes to just four retailers, but they […]

We're very excited with today's announcement that the company is now offering a free introductory tier of service to beginners.