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genxradio.blogspot

I kept hitting refresh, waiting…waiting. “Jobs said ‘today’, it’s still today…relax.” I was chomping at the bit after learning that Apple was launching a social media platform within their online music store called Ping. Apparently I wasn’t the only one, as Twitter and FaceBook were abuzz with the same lament, the download wasn’t available. Around [...]

genyrockstars

If you really think you have what it takes to make it in the music business, but don’t know know how to reach the right fans for your music, you have a big problem… Like many other musicians you will probably have wasted a lot of time so far trying to get fans to come [...]

indiemusictech

Like.fm is a new music tech startup created by Chris Chen that allows users to seamlessly keep historical track of what they’re listening to on sites like YouTube and Pandora (many more sites coming soon), recommend/rank artists and songs from iTunes, and create and share playlists from music sites with friends. Like.FM even summarizes [...]

allfacebook

Apple announced a massive new service today called Ping. It appears to be a direct replacement of iLike, and it combines many of the technologies developed by Facebook, combined with Last.fm and Twitter. Most significant is that it doesn’t have any Facebook integration yet. As far as I’m concerned, Apple has also just become a [...]

npr

Musicians say social media is part of their job, just like touring is, but that it takes time away from their real work or writing, rehearsing and recording songs. Musicians say social media is part of their job, just like touring is, but that it takes time away from their real work or writing, rehearsing [...]

fastcompany

Rasmus Andersson, the chief designer behind Spotify, Europe’s extremely popular cloud-based music service, is exiting the company to join Facebook. Is the social network planning to create a similar music service? Andersson will join Facebook as a product designer in October at their San Francisco headquarters. There, according to a June post on his personal [...]

facebook

For the past 5 years my brothers in Oh, Sleeper and myself have sacrificed our lives, our time, relationships, birthdays, holidays, health(haha) to travel around and play shows for our fans. Not to say that isn’t been a fun ride!
I would just like to bring a few things to our fans attention:
I would like to [...]

press release

Thumbplay®, the leading provider of mobile entertainment in the U.S., has launched a feature that allows users to share music on Facebook® with the latest upgrade of the Thumbplay® Music™ (www.thumbplay.com) desktop application. Compatible with both Mac OS X and Windows, the new release is built on Adobe® AIR™ technology and includes:
· [...]

billboard.biz

Social gaming on Facebook is a growing trend that is slowly starting to see more opportunities for the music industry. The most recent development is the official launch of Nightclub City, a game that lets users oversee virtual live music settings. The game soft-launched in April, meaning it just appeared on Facebook with no marketing [...]

themusiciansguide.co.uk

If I told you that you could have an advert promoting your music to 100,000’s of people who listen to your genre of music, live in towns you’re performing in or work in the music industry for less than the cost of a portion of chips you’d probably think I was joking, but this is [...]

NIN

I was planning on taking some time off after the continual waves of touring that ended last fall and spend this year experimenting around with what would become How To Destroy Angels and some new NIN. Well, that plan didn’t work out so well. David Fincher started inquiring about my interest in scoring his upcoming [...]

musically

Many of the biggest music artists are updating their Facebook pages far more often than their MySpace profiles, according to research carried out by Music Ally’s digital marketing arm Sandbox. Using Famecount’s chart of the 20 most popular social media musicians as our base, we counted their updates on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter for the [...]

huffingtonpost

Facebook’s recent antics have tested the faith of its users; wireless carriers are posting massive profits (no doubt, due in large part to Blacks and Latinos out-indexing each month in expenditures); statistical reports demonstrate “surprising” facts that young, hip users of color are also out-indexing in Twitter usage; there are emerging reports of questionable practices [...]

press release

TheIndie.biz is putting a new and unique spin on social networking with its new Frindie social music application. Frindie is a social media-based tool that allows users to tell their friends, on all of the major social networks–Facebook, MySpace, Google, etc.–what music they are listening to, buying and downloading with just one [...]

raisedonindie

Social media tools such as twitter, facebook and myspace are both the most underrated and most overrated tools at your disposal to promote your business or band. It’s very important to understand the actual value of social media tools so that you spend the right amount of time on there and get a good return [...]

billboard.biz

There’s not an update or change that Facebook has made to either the tools available to users—or the terms of service they must agree to—that hasn’t gotten one group or another bent out of shape. But the most recent and ongoing dust-up over its privacy policies has reached a new level of volume that has [...]

vimeo

ReverbNation has created a super easy widget to assist their artists in promoting themselves on Facebook. It’s intuitive, interactive and easy for fans to share, and the artist’s music doesn’t stop while a listener is learning more about the band - expect this tool to be a hit quickly! Check it out in this [...]

mashable

Summer concert season calls, with its far-flung fairgrounds, scorching sun, and pricey passes. But on the horizon, something bigger beckons. Big Live, which launches in June, might just be a social networking, online video force to be reckoned with. The site, which fuses Facebook (Facebook) chat-style features with concert video, promises to change the way [...]

press release

Napster integrating social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr into its service, allowing users to easily share their music interests with their friends and also enjoy content shared by other folks in the social network.
Napster was an online music file sharing service created by Shawn Fanning while he was attending Northeastern University [...]

Youtube

Trent Reznor alongside wife Mariqueen Maandig, Reznor is set to release a self-titled six-song EP under the name How To Destroy Angels. Although no tunes have been posted, a 40-second video has appeared and the group has created a website as well as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Youtube, and Vimeo pages. The music from the clip [...]

press release

TheIndie.biz launched today its Frindie application, a social media-based tool that allows users to enhance their music listening experience by seeing what their friends on the largest social networks–Facebook, MySpace, Google, etc.,– are listening to. With just one click of a button, users will be able to quickly view how many, and which of [...]

billboard.biz

No longer just a popular social networking, Facebook’s new mission is to become the underlying social engine powering the entire Internet.
That’s what became exceedingly apparent yesterday during CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote speech at the company’s F8 developers conference. There, he outlined Facebook’s new Open Graph initiative, which spells out this grand effort.
The upshot of Open [...]

itunesfestival.co.uk

The iTunes Festival is back for 2010. Last year your feedback was so great, that we’re doing it again at Camden’s Roundhouse in London. We’re inviting more than 60 artists to perform 31 consecutive nights of brilliant live music in the UK’s best intimate venue. Every show will be recorded and made available on iTunes.
The [...]

socialmediaseo

I wrote yesterday about the new changes Facebook made to their Facebook Fan Page layout by replacing the ‘Become A Fan’ button with a new ‘Like’ button. The changes went far beyond just changing a button however. With the new ‘Like’ functionality, Facebook Pages were going to be become more integrated within the news stream [...]

techcrunch

We’re hearing that iTunes will be implementing Facebook Connect support in the near future, allowing users to share some of their recent purchases with their friends on Facebook. We’re still gathering more details, but it sounds like this could happen quite soon.
It certainly adds up. Over the last few weeks, iTunes has been building out [...]

Press Release

WaTunes, the revolutionary social music service that enables users to discover millions of songs has announced a partnership with Facebook, the world’s biggest social network to launch the WaTunes Facebook App dubbed: Music Store. Music Store is the world’s first Facebook Music Store application.
With Music Store, Facebook users will be able to discover and [...]

independent.co.uk

When Rage Against the Machine beat the cutesy X Factor winner Joe McElderry to the Christmas No 1 slot, it seemed like a victory for proper music over manufactured tat, passionate fans had got one over those executives selling music like baked beans.
Yet the apparent ease with which a single that reached No 25 in [...]

paidcontent.co.uk

After former Bebo president Joanna Shields left last May ahead of the dismantling of her AOL (NYSE: AOL) People Networks division, she teamed with TV producer Shine Group CEO Elisabeth Murdoch to create a social content company. But now she’s getting back in to the social networking business proper, joining Facebook in a new role [...]

madalynsklar.blogspot

There are two social network sites that are a must for indie artists: Myspace and Facebook. I’m a believer in using these sites to push your buzz, build relationships and increase your fanbase. Myspace Is (Still) Not Dead!
For some time now I’ve heard people (mostly musicians and a few industry peeps) say, “Myspace is Dead”. [...]

factoidz

What you are about to read is a personal lament as opposed to an outside observation. It’s all about the painful struggle of independent and unsigned artists in an increasingly bewildering and alienating music industry. As these musings are based on personal experiences, I would like to think that they will ring true with many [...]

guardian.co.uk

A quarter of UK internet users aged eight to 12 had profiles on Facebook, Bebo or MySpace last year, research has found, although the lowest minimum age set on any of the sites is 13. Ofcom’s annual Children’s Media Literacy Audit for 2009 also had bad news for the music industry, finding that 44% of [...]

mymusicsuccess

Where ever they are are on the web, there are simple blunders that artists, bands and labels make on their websites, MySpace, Facebook and other social media that turns away potential new fans and stops potential sales of their music. After visiting many artist websites, we found 4-5 of these easy to rectify issues on [...]

huffingtonpost

In a way, Chris Hughes has been looking for his Act III. Act I was co-founding Facebook at Harvard while sharing a room with Mark Zuckerberg. Act II was taking a leave from the social networking behemoth and joining the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, where he became part of an A-list new media team [...]

mktgideas

In the summer of 2009, DJ SHADOW brought all of his operations under one roof (both physically AND digitally) – the work was a bear to accomplish, but with a smart team and a strong brand that resonates with a dedicated fanbase, Team Shadow has made the interaction via multiple touch points between DJ Shadow [...]

blogs.wsj

Want to tweet personal “feel better” messages to Crystal Bowersox? Too bad — your time has passed. As of roughly 6 p.m. ET on March 3, all Twitter, Facebook and MySpace followers of individual “American Idol” contestants were sent the same message: “Thanks so much for following me/joining my Fan Page! All my updates from [...]

games.venturebeat

Heatwave Interactive, a Texas online game startup, is launching its Platinum Life Web Edition game today as a beta test on Facebook.
The game is a kind of music career role-playing game, where the player starts out as an aspiring hip-hop star. You start out as a nobody selling mix tapes out of your car trunk [...]

techcrunch

MySpace’s new slogan, and the theme of their new product strategy, will be “Discover and be Discovered,” we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. This will be their differentiating factor from Facebook, execs told employees at an all hands meeting last Thursday.
The meeting was called in the wake of the firing of CEO Owen Van Natta and [...]

musically

UK music startup the Bizmo has launched a new Facebook application called Hit Or Not, a social game that asks its players to test their A&R skills.
They pick a musical genre, then are played tracks from theBizmo’s catalogue of independent artists. Players assign a rating out of 100 using a sliding scale, and score points [...]

digitalmusicnews

Facebook may have entertained the possibility of a dedicated music play in the past, a la MySpace Music. But the company has since shifted its sensibilities, at least according to recent statements. “We have no plans to launch a music service on Facebook,” a representative told TechCrunch, responding to an inquiry related to [...]

latimesblogs.latimes

If you’re a musician, your magic number is 1,000. That’s the number of “true fans” required to launch a band from being a night job to a day job, at least according to Kevin Kelly, who wrote a famous essay on the topic. The theory goes that if you can get 1,000 hard core fans [...]

sltrib

Now that everyone on the planet — including your 84-year-old mother — has a Facebook page, why are cool local musicians still flocking to MySpace?
MySpace.com was a revolutionary social-networking tool when it was launched back in 2004, but over the past several years a competitor, Facebook.com, has attracted more users. In response, MySpace has [...]

independent.co.uk

An air of depressing inevitability hangs over The X Factor winner Joe McElderry’s version of Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb” as it grinds its way to the Christmas No 1 slot next week. There will be those who remember when guessing the holder of the festive top spot was a bit of seasonal fun, before Simon [...]

press release

Developments that will have a profound impact on what the biz looks like in 2010.
1. Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger Pact
Just as the nation’s largest concert promoter and ticketing company had begun making competitive inroads onto each other’s turf, Live Nation and Ticketmaster Entertainment signed a merger agreement in February that sent a shudder through the [...]

press release

RCA Music Group today announced it will release a full stream of Alicia Keys’ upcoming album, “The Element of Freedom,” exclusively to the artist’s fans on Facebook (www.facebook.com/aliciakeys). RCA Music has partnered with Involver, the leading social media technology firm, to allow Keys’ 1.2 million Facebook fans to stream the tracks from her new [...]

kerascene.blogspot

CNet UK assembled a gaggle of social media experts to tell MySpace how to save itself from the Facebook juggernaut. Some of their ideas:
1. Sort out it’s design mess.
2. Focus on music.
3. Get into live streaming.
4. Open up its platform.
5. Buddy up with Apple.
6. Embrace a counter culture role.
7. More sharing and collaboration.

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