MOG Relaunches As Music Blog Aggregator and The Web’s Home Page For Music

Posted by Eric Hebert on Apr 20, 2009 in Blogoholica | Comments

I got word that Mog.com relaunched over the weekend; here is their official press release regarding their new features and direction.

Official Mog PR:

I think you’ll agree, our new home page (http://mog.com) is now your primary destination for staying on top of what’s going on in music.

To create this page, we hand curate over 5000 blog posts a week that flow through our network, to give you the best singular page online for music lovers.

The list of new features and site improvements are endless. The design and user interface have been completely revamped allowing MOG to reclaim the online music crown as its rightful owners!! : )

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Where The Wild Things Are Trailer’s Arcade Fire – “Wake Up”

Posted by Albert Costill on Apr 14, 2009 in Song of the Week | Comments

Ah, the art of music in movie trailers. It’s not as easy as you think.

Think about all the trailers that you see. How many times do you hear familiar those instrumental pieces from Hans Zimmer (“Rain Man,” “The Dark Knight,” “Gladiator”) or Graeme Revell (“The Crow,” “Sin City, “From Duck Till Dawn”)? Then of course there are the lazy editors. Like the ones that use The Who’s “Baba O’ Riley”, or whatever past or current hit is on the airwaves.

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Keeping It Real In Today’s Music Industry – Guest Post By Godamus Rhyme

Posted by Eric Hebert on Apr 11, 2009 in Marketing | Comments

This is a guest post regarding a question I posted my readers earlier this week – What’s the most important thing to becoming a successful musician in 2009?

Your average person might think the above question was a simple one with this simple answer: good music. Your average person would also be dead wrong.

With the way technology is advancing, social networks are evolving, and the music industry is crying over the spilt milk of lost revenues; the most important thing successful musicians can possess in 2009 is integrity.

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ReverbNation’s New Product Helps The Clintons Land “Jim Beam” Sponsorship Deal

Posted by Eric Hebert on Apr 9, 2009 in Marketing | Comments

ReverbNation, the preferred music marketing and promotion platform for over 375,000 artists, labels, managers, and venues, has launched FanReach Pro, a professional version of the popular FanReach email service used by over 80,000 bands to manage fan communications. FanReach Pro is designed from the ground up to help artists, venues and record labels maximize revenue from their email marketing campaigns. Montana Artist The Clintons have already capitalized on FanReach Pro’s automatic fan data finder to provide spirits brand Jim Beam with the information required to land a lucrative and highly competitive sponsorship deal.

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Trent Reznor Discusses Music Biz With Digg Founder Kevin Rose

Posted by Eric Hebert on Apr 8, 2009 in Distribution | Comments

If you’re not a regular Digg user then this probably went under your radar; Trent answers questions from the Digg community, including many about the future of the music biz. Check it out: