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Pandora Opens Its Box With Twitter, Facebook & Gift Integration

Currently, if you want to share a Pandora station or song with a friend, you have to email it to them. Last time I checked, this isn’t 1994. Tonight, Pandora is joining the 21st century with the addition of simple ways to share stations and songs on Twitter and Facebook. And it’s further emphasizing a feature [...]

[ More ] October 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Is TweetMySong the Future of Music Promo on Twitter, or a Tool for Music Spam?

Is TweetMySong the future of music promotion on Twitter, or a tool for more fuckin music spam? My personal opinion is that it can be used for both good and evil lol. What say you?

Join the conversation over at IndieMusictech

[ More ] October 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Register to Watch the Webcast of Today’s Google Music Announcement With Lala And iLike

Listen To Google’s Discover Music Announcement Online
This afternoon’s announcement of Google’s new enhanced music search service that includes play and purchase functionality courtesy of lala and iLike has been an open secret for more than a week. (see details) But that doesn’t mean that today’s press conference won’t include a few surprises.

In case you didn’t get [...]

[ More ] October 28th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

MySpace Music Tries To Stay Relevant; Gets A Major Upgrade

More Video, Artist Dashboard, iTunes Purchase
MySpace Music has gotten a major upgrade with the addition of a new music video hub, an artist dashboard offering analytics and track purchase via iTunes. The new features come at a time when the parent MySpace site is losing market share to Facebook.
Music Video Hub
MySpace hopes to challenge YouTube’s [...]

[ More ] October 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Industry News |

Join Me this Saturday for An all-day Educational Event for the Bay Area Music Community

(I’ll be speak on the “DIY Label: Promoting and Selling your Music in the Digital Age” panel which begins promptly at 1pm) 
California Lawyers for the Arts presents its annual music business seminar, Volume 2009! The event will take place at Ex’pression College for Digital Arts http://www.expression.edu in Emeryville on Saturday, October 24 from 9:30am to [...]

[ More ] October 21st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought, Press Releases |

Google Partners With iLkie & LaLa to Launch Music Service

None of the companies involved will confirm the new Google Music service – we have “no comments” or absolute silence from Google, LaLa, MySpace and iLike. But the new service is all but confirmed. And we have the screenshots showing how the service, which will be announced on October 28, will look to prove it.
Matt [...]

[ More ] October 21st, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Industry News |

John Mayer Releases First Ever Augmented Reality Music Video

As an artist John Mayer has been on the forefront of emerging technologies, embracing the art of blogging and tweeting before it was trendy to do so. Today, however, Mayer has been able to make music and technology history as the first recording artist to release an augmented reality music video.
The music video for “Heartbreak [...]

[ More ] October 20th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

3 Reasons Drake is NOT the Poster Child For Indie Hip-Hop Artists

Drake is often used as a prime example for how struggling independent hip hop artists can succeed in the music business. In order for that to be the case, Drake’s path to success would have to be reasonably attainable by other artists who begin their careers in hip hop.  But Drake’s path is not your [...]

[ More ] October 19th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |

Google Wave: How Artists Can Use it

Google Wave! It’s The Future! Convergent Communication 3.0! The bleeding zeitgesty edge of real-time innovation! But, er, what exactly IS it, and what potential does it have – if any – for artists, labels and the music industry?
I’ve been puzzling over this since Google Wave was first announced earlier this year. Now it’s launched in [...]

[ More ] October 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Food For Thought |