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Best Music App (can Spotify do that?)
In NJ, summer 2011, I witnessed a violent conversation about what is the best mobile music app. It pretty much sums up the state of mobile music streaming in 2011: Brandon: Rdio is where it’s at in music right now. Kerry: I. Don’t. Care. I love Spotify. Brandon: Name anything. I’ll play it right now. [...]
Turn Up The =Bas=
You may know that in the A-side of 2011 I had the chance to do the web design for a project of massive value to musicians: the web version of Bas Grasmayer‘s thesis about marketing music through non-linear communication. He studies progress in music business since the MP3 and develops the ecosytem model for marketing [...]
2011 Live Music Scenes
01 – All Time Low 02 – The National 03 – Coachella 2011 04 – ADTR 05 – Sasquatch 2011 06 – Bonnaroo 2011 07 – ALK3 Andriano 08 – The New Deal 09 – Carl Barât 10 – NoFx 11 – Washed Out 12 – Warpaint 13 – Lady Gaga 14 – DFA 1979 [...]
Mediazoic Panel | CMW 2011 | Video
“In the corresponding rush to give today’s music fans what they want when they want it, the lines between stakeholders have become increasingly blurred. Even with business models evolving though, effective tools for music discovery, distribution, promotion, and curation remain an absolute necessity.” –Greg Nisbet Canadian Music Week 2011′s Mediazoic Panel about “how different parts [...]
Kaiser Chiefs BBC Interview: “Set Your Own Scene.”
Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson performs in 2005. – Photo: Andrew Kendall. “If you haven’t got a scene you’ve gotta’ set your own scene” said Kaiser Chiefs singer Ricky Wilson at 31:40 and “keep your ears peeled” for song ideas said drummer Nick Hodgson at 51:00 during their interview below with Steve Lamacq on BBC [...]
Ultra Music Festival 2011
Ultra Music Festival 13 hit Miami on March 25–27, 2011 and if you attended, then chances are you got shot by the lens of Adam Jackson, corresponding photographer, at least once. Jackson is a prolific lifestreamer and photographer who’s made his way to UMF every year since 2004. Researchers have clocked him at 60 photos per minute. 40.
DFA 1979 IFB: C’mon now and give them all shhhhh
I usually take to dislike band reunions, as I firmly believe that something that was once glorious was a product of the circumstances in that very moment. To be more exact, I think its important to let things go when it’s time to let them go and not try to milk them until they are [...]
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Headliner.FM and Mike More [Interview]
3OH!3 singer Sean Foreman performs in California in 2009. 3OH!3 reportedly reached “3.7 million fans via 304 different artists” through Headliner.fm. “Promotion on the social web was broken. We wanted to see if we could make it better.” –Mike More, Headliner.fm co-founder. This interview was a long time coming. Mike More (@mikemore)
Email Catch-22
I love loved email. Now I think it may be the death of me. IMO email has gone out of fashion. Lately when I look in my Gmail inbox I’m a deer in the headlights. I try to reply to everyone who writes me, but, at the same time I don’t want to spend my whole life writing emails.
Calling SXSW Photographers
Photo: Flickr/XtelBoom In the next two weeks we will probably see the hashtag #SXSW enough times to make our eyes bleed. What I really want is the music. Last year I compiled a killer set of 27 SXSW music photos taken by photographers on Flickr. This year we may as well try to top it, [...]
