40 Music Start-Ups and Services That Could Be Big in 2013
Music Ally has been evaluating new music services that could have an impact in the next twelve months. Their list starts like this:
An umbrella music blog that rose from the ashes of Pitchfork’s Altered Zones website, raising $37k on Kickstarter and promising to “value quality thought” as it looked for a new spin on MP3 blogs.
A genuinely big deal for music-making apps on Apple’s iOS devices, connecting them together like “virtual cables” so people can squirt sounds between different apps to work on.
The former P2P villain returned this year as a scan-and-match cloud music service with radio-style mixes. Most intriguingly, though, it proceeded to get bought by cloud giant Dropbox.
Picking up community platform Ning’s ball and running with it, Backplane wants to run socially-infused sites for stars, starting in 2012 with one of the biggest: Lady Gaga.
Boxopus put the wind up rightsholders this year with its combination of BitTorrent downloads and Dropbox cloud storage, although the latter swiftly pulled its API access over infringement fears.
There are 35 more on the list. Continue here.
