Musicbizcast With Kelly Castor

Michael Hoy is the co-founder of MusicBox, an independent musician discovery platform where musicians are able to reach listeners that have opted-in to receive not just music from these artists, but also music from similar bands. It’s an amazing way for aspiring artists to create new fan-bases outside of their zip code.     Michael believes the current system of searching for music, even though it’s all out there and readily available, is flawed. You’re less likely to discover truly new and exciting tunes if you are left to your own searching process. Even sites like Pandora and Last.fm typically direct you to artists that are almost too close to the ones you plug in, almost too safe.   Through MusicBox, Michael wants to expand listeners’ horizons by hand-picking and hand-delivering awesome independent music that’s just on the periphery of your comfort zone. The flip side of the service is that up-and-coming independent artists get a brand new distribution channel that places their music directly into the inb