October 26th, 2008

TuneCore Takes $7 Million To Help Artists With Digital Sales

Despite our bumpy history with TuneCore, we’re big fans of their business model: they help artists get digital distribution of their music on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, napster, eMusic and other online music sites without the trouble of going through a distributor. A recent deal with iLike expands their footprint further.

Basically, TuneCore is the place to go if you are unsigned but want people… → Read More

October 19th, 2008

iLike Teams With TuneCore To Help Artists Sell Their Music

Popular music service iLike has teamed with TuneCore, a music distribution platform, to help artists promote and sell their music as easily as possible.

TuneCore (whose CEO thankfully seems to have stopped handling the site’s PR) actually has an intriguing business model. For a flat fee, TuneCore will help artists distribute their digital music to a collection of music stores that the company… → Read More

June 3rd, 2008

TuneCore Tells Us Where We Can Shove It

TuneCore, a startup that lets musicians break out of the label world and publish their music directly to online distribution channels like iTunes and Amazon, has been on a tear lately with some excellent and well deserved press coverage. I asked one of our interns, Peter, to email their PR group to get additional background information for CrunchBase and a potential story we’re working on… → Read More