Startups and change makers leveraging music and music technology to curate a more creative world.
Good Morning!
We hope you and your loved ones are doing well in the current climate.
The music industry has seen its set backs in the last few weeks with live events and some other areas but we are going to trudge along and continue to cover the industry.
In this issue, there are some great pieces for you to read.
Create Music Group and how they turn a profit.
What is Flighthouse and how have they taken over Tik Tok.
The new streaming service from Byte Dance called, Resso, has launched.
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Collecting a paycheck from streaming services has been a headache for up-and-coming musicians. This LA startup built a thriving business around solving that problem.
Youka, or YouTube to karaoke, is a free website that turns any YouTube video into karaoke. It isolates vocals using AI tool Spleeter and pulls lyrics from websites to create karaoke videos.
Flighthouse and Republic Records have partnered on the new TikTok series “Certified Superfan,” in which Republic artists surprise their biggest admirers.
The Strokes and Diplo both have deepfake music videos created by The Fakening, the meme page that went viral for putting Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos into Star Trek.
TikTok, the hugely popular social media app, found a lot of early traction by giving users a way to create funny lip-synced versions of clips from well-known songs and then share them with friends (its predecessor in the West was even called Musically). Now at long last, TikTok’s owner, China’s ByteDance, is doubling down on […]
Twitter is testing its own version of Stories. The company announced today it will begin to trial a new sharing format called “Fleets,” starting in Brazil, which will let users post ephemeral content to its social network for the first time. Unlike Tweets, Twitter’s new Fleets can’t receive Likes, Replies or Retweets. And they’ll disappear […]
Marc Rebillet is part of a fast-growing community of musicians who are migrating to digital platforms to perform “quaranstreams” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Indie artists are overwhelmingly flocking to Twitch, as it offers an abundance of ways to make money.
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