Anthony Herron

Hey Spotify how about…

By Anthony Herron ⋅ September 7, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Spotify certainly rule the headlines as far as streaming start-ups go. 2008-9 has seen a massive increase in presence, users and hype. Today brings the announcement that their iPhone app has now been approved. There was a lot of ‘will they, won’t they’ hype about this because Apple have recently taken a lot of heat [...]

Let Sky Larkin show you how it’s done

By Anthony Herron ⋅ April 15, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Came across the Sky Larkin website about a month ago and I’ve been meaning to blog about it since. It has to be one of the best band websites out there. It ticks a lot of boxes and they’re utilizing the web in ways every band should. UPDATE: site was created by http://wearebrilliantlydifferent.com/ et al. [...]

Music Like Software

By Anthony Herron ⋅ February 3, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

Here’s a fun game… start off with the phrase “Music like…………..” then make up a word to follow and see if there’s an analogy that could be drawn from said word in relation to music. According to Twitter, 23 days ago, I posted this tweet: “Imagine, if you could buy demo’s (work in progress) on [...]

How to approach a music company

By Anthony Herron ⋅ February 2, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

This post is a long time coming. If you’re an artist, you’re going to get a lot out of this one… There are more artists and bands out there than ever, which is great. But it also means our email traffic increases. One thing I’ve noticed, is that bands are getting lazy, all too often [...]

Uk Festivals – Which one’s to apply to…

By Anthony Herron ⋅ January 11, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

It’s not often my blogs are aimed at artists, usually I have have a handful of artists I give advice to / send stuff to from time to time, but thought I would open it up a little. So if your an artist/act, believe it or not, your already leaving it a bit late to [...]

Vote Created in Birmingham as Best UK Blog!

By Anthony Herron ⋅ January 10, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

Long time subscriber’s know I NEVER do posts such as vote x for x, but I really care about this one, this one is worth asking for. Possibly my favorite blog is one called Created in Birmingham. I live in Birmingham and I find it invaluable. Not only that, but it’s run by some of [...]

Make more money from online sales…

By Anthony Herron ⋅ January 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

So, your an artist or label who’s selling music rather than giving it away. Even better, your giving away a track or more to promote the record more or whatever your viral marketing strategy is. On average with iTunes, a label/artist will receive £0.49p from each sale plus mechanical’s if that’s applicable. This is non [...]

We7 vs. Spotify

By Anthony Herron ⋅ November 25, 2008 ⋅ 31 comments

I love it when a company tracks inward url’s as I believe that’s how Gareth from We7 from came across my blog post and left me a comment. It’s great. Every company should do it. Despite the title, the blog post isn’t going to be an A-B comparison of We7 to Spotify. Neither will I [...]

Spotify: so good, they only had to name it once

By Anthony Herron ⋅ November 24, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

Thought a post was overdue about the magic that is… Spotify. What is it then? Well, it’s one of the latest ad supported/subscription/streaming music models about. Still currently in BETA mode and invite only, they have started to roll out invitations. Through this, they’re creating hype and a real buzz on the ethernet. What makes [...]

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