By Ian Liberman STREAMING SERVICES FOR ROCKERS (PART 2) It’s puzzling that streaming services in the U.S. and Canada do not create content for rock listeners, given that sales of rock music strongly outpaces sales of pop and hip-hop (according to 2015 Nielsen and Statista year-end numbers). iHeartMedia is getting ready to launch two paid […]
Inferno of Rock Report – APRIL 2016
By Ian Liberman INFERNO OF ROCK NEWS IN MEMORIAM The Beatles Guru George Martin, known as “the fifth Beatle,” died on March 8, 2016. Looking at this death from a hard rock perspective, he was responsible for the raunchy Beatles’ song, “Helter Skelter,” which paid homage to the cult family serial killer, Charles Manson. […]
How Independent Hard Rock Bands are Building Fan Bases on Their Own
The music industry has drastically changed due in large part to technology. It all started on June 1, 1999, when computer programmer, Shawn Fanning, launched the beta version of Napster – the first peer-to-peer file sharing platform. And though the original free version of Napster was shut down in 2001 due to illegal sharing of […]
