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Music 2.0: The Rise of Indie Music

May 15, 2007 - By Brandon Bean - 0 Comments »

Edited (and Opinion) by Sid Yadav.

The phenomenon of MySpace has brought indie musicians the kind of audience they’ve always needed. With a number of indie bands forming and gaining popularity, the question of how they’ll be able to actually make money out of their music has been raised. Three services — Jamendo, SellABand, and Project Opus — stand out of the crowd as services that could change the music industry and give indie artists a platform to sell their music.

Jamendo
Luxembourg based Jamendo (Jam - Crescendo) is a designed to allow musicians reach their audience in a new way. Artists can use the Jamendo service to distribute their music under the Creative Commons license for nearly no cost. Users can review bands and make donations directly on the site. Jamendo has wisely embraced BitTorrent technology as a means of distributing albums to users. The site is also beta testing a revenue sharing scheme which allows artists to take 50% of advertising revenue from the site based on page hits.

Project Opus
Project Opus, based in Vancouver, Canada, is a service working to promote local bands and build an online community out of their fanbases. Project Opus sorts music by region and is searchable by genre. Artists on Opus can sell their music or have the option of making it available for free distribution. They’ve also developed what they call ‘Players‘ which offers a Pandora-like service, helping enthusiasts to reach out to more of the kind of music they like.

SellABand
SellABand is a service I absolutely love, which includes an interesting twist that truly could revolutionize the way music is created including production and distribution. Basically, the site allows bands to upload 3 songs that fans can listen to and rank on the site. If users enjoy the music, they can become “believers” and can buy “parts” of the band. Each part costs a user $10. When bands reach $50,000 in user funding, that money is used to produce a professional album for the artist. What makes this idea so compelling is the way believers are compensated if the artists reaches the $50,000. If a user bought 1 part ($10) they are given a CD after it has been produced, and if they bought more parts, they share in advertising revenue. This is a win-win situation for artists and music lovers — in a way, a stock market for indie music artists — but instead of buying a CD, fans can actually invest in bands they really enjoy, and get something out of it.

Opinion
The whole point of services like these is to offer incentives to convert listeners into fans, who in turn are the ones that buy the music they love and let their artists know that they support them. While indie music in general isn’t up to the point where artists could earn the kind of sums regular ’signed’ artists do, I think it has the potential to get to the point, with the help of such service, they at least get what they deserve.

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音乐2.0的时代已经到来, 上文讲的是独立音乐制作者有了新的方式来接触听众.

然而急需解决的是独立音乐的商业模式,即如何能让音乐创作者赚钱?

 

sellband有了很好的解决方法提供给独立音乐创作者.

首先,sellband网站允许每个乐队上传3首他们的音乐,听众则可以对其音乐免费收听和评价, 这会影响歌曲的排名.

如果音乐听者很喜欢这个乐队的歌曲,他们可以升级变成这个乐队的"追随者", 可以购买乐队的一部分, 就像股东一样, 一个部分10美金.

当乐队积累收到听众50,000美金的购买后, 这50,000美金就会自动变为该乐队出专辑的费用, 而所有支持这个乐队,购买乐队的一部分的听众将免费获得一张CD, 而如果听众购买了多部份(即股东)则还能获得和分享广告收入.

这个天才的想法造就了 音乐制作人和听众 的一个双赢的局面.

能听到你最喜欢的音乐,并同时赚钱,是多么美好的事情啊~~~

总有新研究在尝试颠覆我们的生活方式。据信人们已经可以通过吞吃维生素片来慢性自杀了，这让最近送礼的人尴尬不已——鉴于这项新成果已在神州大地上如火如荼地传播开来，恐怕他们只有自称火星人，才可能自保。

而下面我要推荐的最新发现，如果你在午餐时间读到，十有八九会影响食欲。依据这项来自亚利桑那大学的研究揭示的意义，若在写字楼里完成午饭，厕所是最健康的进餐地点。
这项耗资4万美元的研究，旨在完成一个比较学的新命题：在写字楼里，何处的细菌最为密集？据称，研究者浩浩荡荡地游历了亚利桑那大学、纽约、洛杉矶、旧金山、俄勒冈和华盛顿特区等地，海里捞针般地筛选出了100多张办公桌，进行细菌检测。最终的结果让所有人瞠目结舌：办公桌上的平均细菌数目是厕所马桶盖上的400倍。

2月份发布的这个研究结果，让人心里直起鸡皮疙瘩。当然，想必你已习惯了动不动就被诸如此类的消息弄得心里一惊。稍安勿躁，且让我们来看看这次的研究有何新意：

1. 研究说，女人的办公桌虽然看起来整洁，但实际上细菌含量是男人办公桌的3到4倍。理由是女性的桌子上通常有太多的小玩意，化妆品、零食、装饰品……这都是绝好的藏污纳垢的所在。男人们，请大声在办公室朗读这一新洞见——不是为了挑起口舌之争，而是为了吸引女同事来你桌前共进午餐。

2. 这项研究的领导者Charles Gerba教授称，75%的女性喜欢在办公桌附近“储备一些小吃”，“我极为惊讶女人的桌子里有这么多吃的，”Gerba表示，“如果哪里有女人，那就是我想找食物时最先想到的地方”。我很欣慰，这项4万美元的调查让他终于明白了这个道理。

3. 男人的钱包是非常温暖的（也许还更为凌乱）、适合细菌生长的好地方。请在用餐后买单，坚决抵制餐前付帐。更好的解决方法是，用女人的钱包——当然那里装的完全可以是你的钱。

当然，最为惊心动魄的结论是，Gerba比较了办公桌和写字楼厕所座位的细菌含量，声称前者是后者的 400倍。虽然囿于传统道德的禁锢，你没法拉下脸皮去厕所完成进餐，更不可能将办公桌改造为私人厕所，但健康完美主义者从中获得的指教是：你可以像每次如厕那样，在用餐前，掏出一张消毒纸巾，小心翼翼地将四周清洁一遍。对了，这就是这项研究的用意——清洁液巨头高乐氏（Clorox）公司赞助了这个研究，显然不是为了光扬厕所文化。

最后，我惊喜地发现了另一项接踵而至的好消息，有研究称，经常使用消毒液，能杀死桌面细菌的25％。如果我没计算错的话，那的确能显著地降低我的桌面细菌含量，使之达到厕所的300倍。 

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