Featured Member: CrowdBands “You Run The Label”

About Crowdbands Crowdbands is a crowdsourced, online record label and entertainment company.  Our community of members guides the company by voting democratically on decisions pertaining both to the label and the career decisions of our artists.   We launched in early January, and the first artist on our platform is the Donnas (see the accompanying …

360 Deals, Conflicts of Interest, Operational Inefficiencies & Bruce Springsteen

The current state of the recorded music industry has caused 360 deals to become the standard recording agreement that any artist, who wants to get signed, must enter into. The reason for this is because record labels feel that they establish the artists they sign and therefore deserve a cut from all their endeavors. The …