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David Holmes is a former sound engineer and indie studio manager based in the UK. David blogs at Dave's Imaginary Sound Space about sound and the soci... (more...)
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About
A DIY music hub and media marketing platform for the new breed of Artist 2.0. Sharing social media tools that help musicians and fans to connect directly. Enabling easy communication, online interaction and new opportunities to build strong artist-fan relationships.
Fans can use the resource lists to share new music and promote their favorite bands. Artists can find tools and services to spread their music and profit from their works.
To participate simply log on or grab a free Squidoo membership to get started.
This is a living lens, where the ink never dries and The Great Unsigned are free to roam - start the adventure!
Lens Url: http://www.squidoo.com/unsignednotwasted/
Contents at a Glance
Dashboards
media aggregators, news and links
Today's Market Intelligence
Media dashboards for fast scouring of audio, news, trends and buzz.
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MediaSpheres Browser
Extensive media aggregation - music and technology more...0 points
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Dave's FeedRaider - Music Marketplace
Aggregated media feeds in a choice of key topics w more...0 points
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Alltop, all the top stories
All the top headlines from popular topics around t more...0 points
Blogs Buzz
- The Coxmen & Maxwell Adams
- The Coxmen. The Coxmen Chicago, IL Genre: Acoustic, Rap, Comedy Recommended Tracks: Balls, Suburbs, If I Fall In Love. Review:. Maxwell Adams Maxwell Adams Alameda, CA Genre: Rock Recommended Tracks: Microphone, Tunnelvision, ...
- Bubba The Love Sponge's Unsigned Band Review & Podcast Willy
- The Bubba show has been featuring the unsigned band review for about a year or so. Once a week they feature two different unsigned bands and listen to two tracks off of a cd. After each song they go around the room and basically give ...
- UK unsigned band grab global attention through controversial video
- Amidst claims that CCTV fails to stop crime, one strapped-for-cash unsigned band have found that city centre surveillance is a success, and in the process have secured extensive worldwide coverage for their debut video! (more?)
- an unsigned band from Manchester uses footage from surveillance...
- an unsigned band from Manchester uses footage from surveillance cameras around the city that was obtain via the Freedom of Information act.
Delicious Music
Popular music bookmarks.
- Free Music: 22 Websites That Are Driving Daggers Into The Heart Of The RIAA | TinyDad
- Video Tabs Archive
- Muxtape
- Online Only: 100 Essential Jazz Albums: Online Only: The New Yorker
- A N I M O T O: it is coming
- Last.fm’s Playground
- Mojo 2.0 Beta for Windows
- Music Rules: Top 10 Music Websites That Delivers Greatest Free Music
- Last.FM - Your personal online radio station.
- Discover New Music - Pandora
Mission Criteria
learn more about the project
Unsigned Defined
- Wikipedia - Unsigned artist
- Encyclopedia references referring to "Unsigned"
"An unsigned artist is a musical artist or group not attached or signed to a record label. Similarly, the contractual condition of any creative person or group."
"The term unsigned artist is used in the music industry to refer to a singer, songwriter, musician or band that has no affiliation with a record label. Many unsigned artists sell their music and music-related merchandise without the financial support of a record label, while often seeking a recording contract through the recording of demos. The difference between an unsigned artist and aspiring artist is that aspiring artists in most cases do not sell their music commercially."
Project Aims
- Aid new music discovery, distribution and promotion.
- Connect unsigned artists, music producers and fans with the best Music 2.0 tools and resources.
- Explore new opportunities for artist/fan interaction.
- Help independent artists prosper and profit from their creative work.
Do-it-Yourself
Why waste your talent being a puppet for The Man when you can follow your own direction, build your own fan base and foster the respect you deserve from the people that count? The DIY ethic can be applied to finding self-reliant solutions for music production and commerce using the growing Web 2.0 infrastructure. Many artists have already achieved success using self-promotional business techniques to build a fanbase.
Web 2.0
Successive waves of disruptive technologies continue to change the way we find, share and pay for music. The Social Web offers a multitude of ways to build brands, collaborate and spread ideas. New Open Business models are emerging built around openness, free services and free access. For musicians this represents an unparalleled opportunity to explore creativity, retain artistic control and exploit Long Tail economics.
Music Marketing Solutions
Unsigned Not Wasted helps independent artists find free to low-cost music marketing solutions. People can locate, track and share information about a range of DIY music tools including sites for collaboration, flexible music licensing, media distribution and artist promotion. Targetted web feeds deliver the unsigned buzz from blogs and social networks.
To learn more about this DIY medium of communication, and the shift in economic value of the web, see the videos below for a short introduction.
Your Help
Anyone can participate by adding artists and music resources to the interactive lists (plexos). These lists can be shared on webpages by grabbing their RSS feeds or widget codes.Vote for what you Value
Individual list items can be voted on to rank them up as can the overall lens at the top of the page. If you want to help unsigned bands and promote music difficult to find using corporate media outlets, vote for what you believe in. Every vote counts!
This way we all get a say in developing the project and sharing cool stuff. Feel free to spread the Unsigned Not Wasted meme however you wish, use the 'Contact Me' link on the left sidebar if you want to share media such as graphics, info etc, or the 'Peer Post Box' at the bottom of the lens to share a message with the community.
Music 2.0
using the machine
About Web 2.0
By alluding to the version-numbers that commonly designate software upgrades, the phrase "Web 2.0" hints at an improved form of the World Wide Web; advocates suggest that technologies such as weblogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds (and other forms of many-to-many publishing), social software, Web APIs, Web standards and online Web services imply a significant change in web usage. From Wikipedia - Web 2.0
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The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) 0 points
Music 2.0 Resources
- ALL THINGS WEB 2.0 - Audio 2.0
- A directory of audio and music related sites.
- Audio 2.0
- A list of audio related services including music discovery, communities, file sharing, playlists, podcasting, radio, promotion and selling, ringtones, and other tools.
- Music 2.0
- Delicious link archiving of all things music 2.0.
- Music 2.0 Directory
- An open wiki project that anyone can help build by contributing relevant resources and information.
- Web 2.0 Music Services.
- A list of music sites and tools for creating, discovering, searching, sharing, storing, etc.
- Rocketsurgeon's Music 2.0 Directory
- The latest in Music 2.0 and Digital Entertainment with an informative blog about new music services.
- Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 directory
- A comprehansive index of logos of the latest web 2.0 applications and services. Find what you need. Discover what you don't...
- Wikipedia - Online music and lyrics databases
- Category: Online music and lyrics databases.
The Small Print
terms and conditions
Music Media Hosts
Reading the Small PrintThe creation and distribution of music has become widespread due to the abundance of Internet technologies and new online media services (Social Media/Web 2.0).
The sites used to host and distribute music online differ widely in their end user agreements and Terms of Service. Some sites are 'friendlier' than others for content creators, depending on how the creator/copyright holder permits the work to be used and whether or not they get paid.
It's important to recognize that many music sharing sites can sell or license uploaded works to third parties without financial compensation to the creator.
For people sharing free music under flexible licenses like Creative Commons this is extremely important because their choice of license is often determined by requirements involving pre-cleared authorization, user flexibility, and various copyright protections, including non-commercial use. These copyrights can be superceded or nullified by agreeing to the TOS of the music hosting service. Superceded terms may be perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable and transferable so it's helpful to know what the user may be giving up before accepting the terms.
Most music sharing sites have some kind of involvement with commercial partners such as advertisers, licensees, sponsors, affiliates and the like. This includes aggregators and search engines that spider, index and offer music elsewhere.
When choosing a host it's often a case of finding a balance between the features on offer and the Terms of Service, especially in the grey area of non-commercial use licenses. When using a third-party hosting service it's worth remembering the role partnership deals play in the financing of their operations. It's wise to read the TOS, privacy policy and copyright policy first to determine the reputation and suitability of the service. An alternative is to host the files on your own server or use a suitable paid web hosting provider.
Opinion
The Royalty Scam
New York Times article by Billy Brag.
These crazy musicians still think they should get paid for recorded music Techcrunch's Michael Arrington riffs on the Billy Bragg article with interesting reader comments.
Resource Fields
tools and services
Open Music Resources
This type of free culture movement is known as Open Music because it applies the concept of open source computer software to music. The social web has made it possible for everyone to participate in the creation, distribution and promotion of Open Music through remixing, podcasting and web-mashups using widgets. Now you can easily find free, legal, pre-cleared media and Open resources using these fast and powerful web tools.
- Open Music Search
- Find Copyleft, Creative Commons, Open Source, and Public Domain media, software, news and services. Grab the widget and spread free music!
- Creative Commons Search
- Provides multiple engines for searching main Open Media hubs with the option to filter searches by desired source, media type, and Creative Commons license. Use it to find free music, videos, images, and other media.
- Open Media Directory | Ourmedia
- A free resource for finding legal, podsafe music and video. The hand picked resources are designed to help artists, podcasters, bands, DJs, remixers, music bloggers and creators of video content working with copyleft - Creative Commons - royalty-free licenses.
Open Music Hubs
Recommended sites and communities for copyleft and public domain music. You can grab the RSS feed or widget code below to use this list on your own site. To add resources go to this list @ OpenSonics
Funky Remixes
A Free and Legal Music Source... Rip, Remix, Retur more...5 points
Podsafe Resources from Podseek.net
Podsafe resources for podcasters looking to use mu more...2 points
Jamendo : Open your ears
A community where artists share their music under more...1 point
Electrobel - Net Portals
Electrobel is a community for electronic music art more...0 points
ccMixter - Sampling, Mashing, Sharing
A community music site featuring remixes licensed more...0 points
Free Music Project
Freeculture.org's free music library - working in more...0 points
Musikasí - Music Yes
A Spanish digg-style aggregator for copyleft music more...0 points
Muzic - CC Music
Free unlimited mp3 hosting for original works and more...0 points
ZikWeb.org - Open Music Community
A website for online music and free culture, featu more...0 points
IDM Forums - Listening Booth
Sharing electronic music, live sets -<br />& more...0 points
Indaba Music - Find Musicians - Make Music
Lets musicians collaborate, create and remix music more...0 points
Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
share free sound effects and loops0 points
Content Directories - CC Wiki
A list of organizations and projects powered with more...0 points
Moby - film music
For independent and non-profit filmmakers, film st more...0 points
LegalTorrents
An online community created to discover and distri more...0 points
Magnatune: license music and MP3 download
Pre-cleared original music for broadcast media, au more...0 points
RCRD LBL | Free MP3 Downloads
Offers free CC licensed music and multimedia conte more...0 points
Unsigned Artists
A list to share and promote unsigned and indie label artists. Higher positions are not an indication of popularity but more votes could achieve greater visibility.
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Ours to Destroy
A unique juxtaposition of introspective folk with more...1 point
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http://www.myspace.com/bemisuk
MySpace music profile for BEMIS with tour dates, s more...1 point
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INTERVURT - MySpace
A five piece from London, Uk. Likened to Muse, U2, more...0 points
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Your Favorite Enemies - MySpace
A six piece Alternative Rock band from Montreal, C more...0 points
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Apes and Androids - MySpace
A 5 piece band from New York, US. Style: A futuris more...0 points
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Dreamspin - MySpace
Mike B, a singer-songwriter from New York, US. Sty more...0 points
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Lunarin - MySpace
A three-piece Alternative Rock band from Singapore more...0 points
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The Reverse Engineers
Official home of the progressive alternative rock more...0 points
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http://www.myspace.com/gothicknowledge
Experimental industrial electric acoustic heavy fo more...0 points
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Everything's gone green - the world of mistrust music
Downtempo electronica/trip hop from Tim B - featur more...0 points
Unsigned Bands on YouTube
Music Promotion Tips
Effective Indie Music Marketing
I'm calling my latest workshop "The New Rules of Internet Music Marketing." But here are three timeless principles that apply to all music promotion, regardless of the technology or era. For more tips, visit TheBuzzFactor.com
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Imaginary Masterminds
A list of interesting and useful ideas from creative people you can draw upon to find new perspectives and marketing solutions.
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How To Be Creative by Hugh MacLeod
MacLeod highlights the value of authenticity and h more...1 point
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Wicked Whammy - Music Needs Management
Future of music industry and Internet music market more...1 point
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How to Become a Creative Genius - Lifehack.org
Six tips for expanding your creativity.0 points
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A List Apart: Who Needs Headlines?
A selection of conventional techniques for writing more...0 points
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Lines and Colors - How Not to Display Your Artwork on the Web
A list of things you can do to drive visitors away more...0 points
DIY Music Survival Guides
Insight and ideas on how to survive in the changing music media revolution.
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The Self-Promoting Musician (Music Business) by Peter Spellman
Tips on how to: write a business plan, create pres more...1 point
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The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution by Dave Kusek, Gerd Leonhard
For the next generation of players and downloaders more...1 point
