Music Tectonics
Meet the Music Innovators at the 2024 NAMM Show!
The NAMM Show is back in January, and the Music Tectonics team will be there seeking out the wildest new musical inventions! Join Dmitri,...
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- Jan 14, 2021
Meet the Innovators of NAMM 2021
If you've ever been to NAMM, the annual trade show of the National Association of Music Merchandisers, you know it can be hard to hunt...
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 13, 2019
The Audio Renaissance: Making Sounds That Sell with Veritonic Founder Andrew Eisner
Audio for marketing isn’t just about jingles any more- it’s about a complete sound experience created by ads and the products themselves....
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 6, 2019
(Podcast) Hey Hey Hey Alexa: Emma McGann on Smartspeakers and Music Engagement
Emma McGann is one of the first artists to create and launch her own Amazon Alexa skill. It all started when Emma was livestreaming on...
Jeanne Bidault
- Jun 6, 2019
(Podcast) Meet the Midemlab Finalists: Paperchain’s Daniel Dewar
Music Tectonics at Midem continues with Dan Dewar of Paperchain, a fintech company creating solutions for music biz problems with a...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Dec 14, 2018
LyricFind and CAPASSO Launch the World’s First Lyric Licensing Agreement Across Sub-Saharan Africa
In our new borderless Global music streaming market, Africa is seen by many industry analysts as the next region to drive user growth. ...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Dec 12, 2018
Save the Date: DIY Musician, The Biggest, Best Gathering for Motivated Self-Managed Musicians, Heads
1500 musicians of all ages, career stages, and walks of life. Engaging, actionable presentations by people like them, people who have...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Dec 6, 2018
Taylor Swift Leads LyricFind’s Top 20 Lyrics of 2018
With the end of the year just around the corner, LyricFind is announcing the Top 20 Lyric Searches of 2018. Taylor Swift’s “Look What You...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Dec 5, 2018
Cultural Curator Putumayo Broadens its Horizons, Launches Music-Powered Travel Experiences
Using music as a gateway to greater cultural understanding, Putumayo was curating experiences before it was cool. The company became a...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Nov 15, 2018
Clearing the Unclearable: Dubset Helps Bring J.PERIOD, Rakim, Black Thought, and Pharoahe Monch’s Gr
Three icons of hip hop on stage, rapping over beats assembled by a mixtape master. All live, all in one take. J.PERIOD, one of the key...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Nov 6, 2018
Clearing the Desks, Changing the Industry: Qwire Builds Software to Transform How Music for Picture
The soundtracks to the shows and films we love have a secret. They were born out of stacks of paper overwhelming desks, dotted with...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Nov 5, 2018
BOOMPLAY AND UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP ANNOUNCE LANDMARK DISTRIBUTION PARTNERSHIP IN AFRICA
Universal Music Group becomes first music company to partner with leading African music streaming and download service Lagos and Santa...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Nov 1, 2018
What's the Value of a Song When Artificial Intelligence is Everywhere?
Appeared in Music Business Worldwide In a world where exponentially advancing technology is created to solve various human basic needs,...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Nov 1, 2018
AudioMicro Donates a Portion of Net Sales to Promote Music Education Where It’s Needed Most
Royalty-free production music marketplace AudioMicro will begin to give a portion of all proceeds to The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, a...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Oct 31, 2018
Boomplay: The Platform Where Millions of Africans Go For the Hottest Local and International Music
Want to meet Africa’s answer to Drake and Cardi B, or hear what’s big on the streets of Lagos or Nairobi? There’s only one place to go:...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Oct 24, 2018
Brazilian Licenses: Latin America’s Biggest Market Now Includes Legal Lyrics
LyricFind seals deals with Brazil’s main publishers and PRO, creates new legally licensed market for Brazilian lyrics. Brazil is Latin...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Oct 22, 2018
CD Baby Becomes First Digital Distributor to Give Creators Affordable Tools to Create Simple Copyrig
CD Baby, the largest digital distributor of independent music and administrator of publishing rights in the world, has partnered with...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Oct 15, 2018
Qwire, the Music-for-Picture Licensing and Cue Sheet Reporting Software Firm, Receives $2M+ in Fundi
Qwire, creator of SaaS software to streamline royalty reporting and licensing for music-for-picture, has received over $2 million in...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Sep 20, 2018
A3C Announces Women in Charge, Hip Hop’s Most Inspiring Women
Women have always been forces to be reckoned with in the hip-hop community. As their leadership contributions are increasingly...
Tristra Newyear Yeager
- Sep 12, 2018
A3C Startup Spotlight: Hip-Hop’s Essential Conference A3C Shines a Light on the Most Promising Music
A3C Festival & Conference launched the Startup Spotlight to help build Atlanta’s music tech community. Atlanta is already the cultural...
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