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Entrevistamos o multi-instrumentista, compositor e produtor Alain Johannes

Conhecido por tocar com Jack Irons e Natasha na banda Eleven, Alain Johannes é um multi-instrumentista, compositor e produtor com muita experiência no currículo. Atualmente com seu álbum solo chamado Sparks e acompanhando a turnê do Queens Of The Stone Age, Alain também saiu em turnê com o super grupo criado pelo seu amigo Josh [...]

U2 To Play South African Soccer Stadiums

U2 will become the first international act to make use of two stadiums built especially for the 2010 FIFA World Cup when its 360 Tour lands in South Africa next year. An announcement made today by Live Nation Global Touring and Big Concerts confirmed speculation that the Irish group will play two dates in February [...]

SWU Festival Puts Brazil On The International Circuit

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SWU Festival in Brazil was one of the biggest musical events to hit South America in a long time

E-mail Marketing Service Grades Fans

Email service company FanBridge has added a new service called FanRank, which automatically tracks a sender’s interactions with fans and grades them as Super Fans (highly engaged, open many emails), Casual Fans (moderately engaged), At-Risk Fans (fans becoming less engaged). The ability to separate an email list into buckets of fans has long been an [...]

Mobile Music Downloads Struggle To Make Headway

Fewer than 2% of mobile users in the United States and western Europe used their phone to download music in the first quarter, showing the uphill task facing Apple iTuneschallengers like Nokia. Although 24% listened to music on their phone, the vast majority loaded the tracks on to their handset from music they already had on a [...]

NME takes on MySpace with Breakthrough site

UK music brand NME has launched a new site, NME Breakthrough, in partnership with social media firm Webjam. It apparently provides “a bespoke platform for artists to upload music, embed video content from other social networking sites such as YouTube, and grow their own fan-bases through community engagement”. Yep, another social site to keep updated… [...]

Alice in Chains, Deftones, Mastdon Team For BlackDiamondSkye Tour

Hard rockers Alice In Chains, Deftones and Mastodon are teaming up for BlackDiamondSkye, an arena and amphitheater tour that kicks off Sept. 16 in Chicago. Thursday’s formal announcement of the trek — 13 dates with more expected to be announced soon — comes after a weeklong online campaign that included teaser videos on YouTube and [...]

EMI closer to being a new artist-only record company

This week, EMI may propose more layoffs as part of its five-year plan intended to woo investors, The Times reported on Sunday. Charles Allen, EMI Music’s chairman, is expected to deliver the much-anticipated report to Terra Firma chief Guy Hands this week, according to the report. If the recommendations pushes EMI closer to being a [...]

U.K. Acts Maintain Market Share In North America

U.K. trade body the BPI has released figures showing that British artists were responsible for almost one in ten artist albums sold in the U.S. and Canada last year. The market share dipped just slightly from 10% in 2008 to 9.6% in 2009, according to the BPI. Susan Boyle and the Beatles played a big part [...]

Billboard Launches Music App Awards

Attention application developers: Billboard is unveiling the first ever Music App Awards, designed to reward the most innovative music-focused apps created for smartphones such as the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android and Nokia devices. Submissions are being accepted now through July 30 at mobileentertainmentlivefall.com, for applications in the following categories: · Best Artist-Based App: Apps created [...]

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