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Elvis Costello's Spectacular Spinning Songbook Revival Delights Fans and Press
Elvis Costello is back on The Revolver Tour featuring the “Spectacular Spinning Songbook". With a setlist powered by a gigantic wheel of fortune, Costello has been reviving early hits as part of a unique selection of songs from his catalog along with “unexpected covers" and surprise guest appearances. The shows are an excellent example of a ...
Interview: Kristen Thomas on the Important Work of the Future of Music Coaltion [video]
On a new episode of This Week In Music, Ian Rogers interviews Future of Music Coalition's Kristin Thomson about about their initiatives in support of indie music. The Future of Music Coalition is a national nonprofit organization working on policy issues that matter to indie artists and labels. FMC is the in the midst of an ...
Google Music Marketing: Will.I.AM on Hangouts, the Johnny Cash Project and Chrome
With yesterday's looming debut of new Facebook features and partnerships, it's no wonder that Google+ opened to the general public on Wednesday. That introduction included a shaky Hangouts session with will.i.am but that's just one example of how Google is currently marketing new services with music products, including their Chrome browser and even Google Music Beta. ...
One Major Player is Missing from Facebook Music
Yesterday Facebook transformed itself into music and media discovery, listening and sharing powerhouse. Via its API, Faccebook welcomed some of music's hottest startups: Spotify, Rdio, Soundcloud and more than a dozen more onto its pages. More will follow soon. But one major player is missing: Apple. For most music fans—particularly the casual ones—Apple provides both the ...
Indie Labels Join to Save Failing Distributor
From the ashes of failed distributor, The Independent Record Collective, three record labels—Frontier Records, Beer City, and Tribunal Records—have launched a new distribution operation for indie labels and bands: Independent Label Distribution (ILD). ILD will handle both physical and digital product and are already handling titles for these indie labels: Adolescents, D.R.I., Les Baxter, Bouncing Souls, ...
Music Aggregators Move from Building Features to Growing Platforms
A number of popular music sites like Reelr.tv and Chill, that aggregate content from services such as YouTube and SoundCloud, might well be described as offering a feature rather than a more complete service. Such site tend to be limited in how they can be monetized in contrast to sites that use such an approach to ...
Facebook F8 Future of Digital Music Panel w/ Troy Carter, Daniel Ek and Bob Pittman
The Future of Digital Music panel at Facebook's F8 conference was a bit disappointing due to the fact that they didn't actually address the future till the last question and that's when things got a bit more interesting. It was quick and fragmented but I've gathered some of the highlights. The Future of Digital Music panel ...
F8 Keynote: Music and Media Apps Dominate New Facebook Timeline
Despite the leaks and rumors, I in no way expected what I saw in Facebook's F8 Keynote presentation today. They are taking their game to a whole new level fueled, in part, by music and media apps. I'm going to summarize things as best I can focused on music before checking out the 3:30 PM EST ...
Brown Paper Tickets Expands "Fair-Ticketing" Services with Full Spanish Language Support
The more I find out about the ticket industry, the more interested I become. But when I pursued the news of Brown Paper Tickets new Spanish-language services, I had no idea how interesting finding out more would be. Honestly, they seem like one of those rare companies whose pr statements are clearly reflected in the services ...
