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Bandize Puts Web Tools in Musicians' Hands
Think it's hard writing the perfect pop song? Try keeping track of the number of T- shirts buried in the back of your band's van. Bandize, a new web service for musicians that's currently in closed alpha, gives bands a suite of online tools to manage everything from tour bookings and social networking to mundane ...
Feds Want Your Help with Broadband Policy
There's a bandwidth gap between the United States and the rest of the developed world that President Obama wants closed. The feds are about to ask for help devising a plan to catch up to the Japans of the world. Epicenter will make it easy for you to be heard. The FCC announced Thursday that at ...
Feds Dig More into Proposed Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger
The Department of Justice has announced it will take a closer look at the proposed merger between the two companies. Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino testified on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 26 with Ticketmaster Entertainment CEO Irving Azoff. The Department of Justice is asking Ticketmaster and concert promoter Live Nation for more information about ...
Top Internet Threats: Censorship to Warrantless Surveillance
The internet is filled with threats real and imagined, from malicious hackers to government censors. Beyond the hacks and cracks and in celebration of Sunshine Week we've compiled a brief list of some of the biggest public and private threats facing the internet. Warrantless Government Monitoring Following the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the practice ...
Hollywood's Blog Smog
New idiom presents conflict of interest Andrew Sullivan observed recently that “blogging is writing out loud." He continued: “A blog is not so much daily writing as hourly writing. Blogging is therefore to writing what extreme sports is to athletics; more free-form, more accident-prone, more alive." Because of all this, the relationship between blogging and traditional ...
Googles Data Culture Drives Designer Crazy and Out
Douglas Bowman, visual design lead at Google, says he’s leaving the company because an obsessive, engineer-heavy, data driven-culture made it impossible for him to work there anymore. After nearly three years at Google, where he built the design team that remains, Bowman admits that he does have something else lined up. But in a candid blog ...
New Musical Instruments Battle for $10k in Prizes
It was like a low-stakes X Prize for music as musicians, inventors and hobbyists competed against each other in the first annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech for cash prizes of $10,000. More than 60 people applied, and 25 were chosen to show off a stunning variety of musical instruments of their own devising. ...
Finding Fame in Austin in the Internet Age
AUSTIN, Tex. — Weaving through the thousands of fans, spring- breaking music industry professionals and assorted revelers who clog the streets of downtown Austin this week, you might well think that South by Southwest, the annual music conference and festival here, is nothing but a big party. Despite the jittery economy and the decade-long recording industry ...
ArtistData Upgrades Artist Info Publishing Platform
Keeping your news and tours dates current across multiple sites and social networking pages can be time consuming drudgery. ArtistData has been working to create a solution and recently the free service took another major step forward with the release of several new features. Twitter & Facebook Updates: When artists add shows, news, and blog entries ...
Live Nation Questioned over $6 Parking Fee
Live Nation Questioned Over $6 Parking Fee As Ticket Service Woes Continue Is the Live Nation ticketing website sneaking a new charge onto tickets on top of their already steep service fees? The New York Daily News alleges that for concerts at New Jersey’s PNC Bank Arts Center, tickets purchased through Live Nation for events at ...
