Sellaband turns the standard record label model on its head by crowdsourcing the financing of albums, mainly in Europe. Now, the company sets its sights on the United States with a deal with Chuck D's ...

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 ...

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, 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 Amsterdam-based online label for unsigned acts which launched last August, is taking part in its first live event during Concert At Sea (CAS), a 60,000-capacity Dutch rock festival on… ...

[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 ...

SellaBand, an online platform that allows fans to contribute seed money to aspiring bands, has just taken its service to a whole new level. It announced today that it will partner with ArenaWorks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...