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Elegantly designed, but they still don't appear to have any business plan in mind. Are bands/record labels expected to pay to promote their own music?

• catone 18y ago
  On their FAQ page, it mentions future plans to offer utilities for bands to sell downloads, create and sell merchandise, and sell concert tickets. Presumably, those would be pay services. (They could also sell premium packages that allow artists to put up more tracks, get analytics, etc.). I mean, this is all conjecture, but figuring out the business model for a site like this doesn't seem too difficult. Whether or not indie bands will pay for that sort of thing, and how much, is a completely different issue.
• aston 18y ago
  Looks like there might be some planned synergy here between muxtape and Normative, Jakob Lodwick's music label. Reggie Watts--one of the featured artists--is signed to the label, and Lodwick is an (the?) investor in muxtape.
  • unalone 18y ago
    Reggie Watts, Francis and the Lights, Adron, and Vulture Realty are all from Normative. Eric Lodwick - Jakob's younger brother - is a member of Vulture Realty.
  • blasdel 18y ago
    Reggie Watts is Jakob Lodwick's roommate. It's always more incestual than you would even think!
    • pstinnett 18y ago
      Normative and Muxtape also share an office.
      • unalone 18y ago
        Not to mention Lodwick payed Justin O, the developer of Muxtape, $95,000 to work on Muxtape, and Lodwick and Francis of Francis and the Lights used to be roommates. The NY startup scene is fascinating.