The Sellaband a music community, which circumvents the major label A&R machine by allowing fans to invest directly in albums in order to get them made, disclosed plans that could help it take a major ...

SellaBand, which reinvents the record label model by letting listeners discover and invest in bands, has replicated another aspect of the traditional music industry by allowing filmmakers and ...

SellaBand, the Netherlands-based online venture that enables unsigned acts to record albums with funding from fans, is extending the same concept to live gigs with ArenaFest, a new U.S.-based summer… ...

SellaBand, the Netherlands-originated label of unsigned acts funded by fans, has signed a marketing partnership with AOL Europe and launched a site on virtual world Second Life to gain more exposure… ...

Dutch music service SellABand received 3,5 million euros to make growth possible. The round was led by Prime Technology Ventures, also a Dutch company. Johan Vosmeijer, CEO Sellaband On SellABand, any ...

Yesterday we reported that Sellaband filed for bankruptcy and this had been granted by the Court in Amsterdam. Now Sellaband CEO Johan Vosmeijer has come up with a new story for their community and ...

[Netherlands] Hip hop pioneers Public Enemy will partner with fan-funding site Sellaband to finance their next album. Public Enemy is one of the first established acts to sign up to Sellaband’s new ...

Musicians, not just record labels, are facing major issues: Small-time acts may find audiences through MySpace and other music sites, but they still need to make money to survive — and it’s not clear ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The trend towards giving music away by exposing its consumers to online advertising is gathering pace. This ...

The users of a new music business website have given the band Second Person £26,000 - but they'll be lucky to see a return on their investment. On a near-weekly basis we're told that the record ...

Dutch startup Sellaband, which enabled music fans to invest in their favorite bands, last week on Friday requested provisional suspension of payments in their home country. It was promptly granted by ...

There's no question that the music industry needs help: CD sales were down 15 percent from 2006 to 2007, and are on a continual downward slide. Because of this crunch, there's an openness to new ways ...