Rock in Rio is back home. After 10 years, the public will enjoy again this event that was exported and has generated enormous visibility for the city and the country internationally. The festival will be on September 23th, 24th, 25th, 30th and October 1st, 2nd. The “Parque Olímpico Cidade do Rock” is an area that [...]
Natura Nos Festival with Jamiroquai, Snow Patrol and many others
Jamiroquai, Snow Patrol, Air and Móveis Coloniais de Acaju
Rage Against The Machine is headliner of SWU
RATM in Brazil: they promise a presentation that will go down in history.
Kings Of Leon confirmed to SWU – Starts With You
According to Vírgula.com.br, Kings Of Leon will play at SWU Music And Arts Festival
Bonnaroo 2010 Downloads and Streams
Downloads and streams from the 2010 Bonnaroo music festival become available online.
The world’s largest music company has admitted that piracy cannot be stopped.
Francis Keeling, head of digital at Universal Music Group International, said: “Are you going to stop piracy? No you’re not.
“To try and set that as an objective is just not going to succeed. Can we make piracy socially unacceptable?
“Absolutely, and that has to be our ambition around the world.” Mr Keeling was speaking at the Great Escape music convention in Brighton.
He is responsible for striking deals to get artists including Lady Gaga, Eminem and Rihanna onto digital services outside North America.
He added: “We’ve got markets like Spain and Italy, where [people say] ‘You buy music? What are you doing buying music when you can get it for free?’
“Clearly those markets are in the situation where, unless we can turn those markets around, we’re going to have a major problem having a music business there.”
Full weight
Universal has been prominent in the fight against illegal file-sharing.
It has also thrown its full weight behind the UK’s Digital Economy Act, which will bring in sanctions against serial offenders, including the possibility of temporary internet suspensions.
The controversial law was approved last month and Mr Keeling stressed it was the “right solution”.
He also said he was confident the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government would “remain supportive” of the bill.
The details of the sanctions and how they will be imposed now have to be worked out.
“The solution needs to be fair, proportionate and implemented well,” Mr Keeling told delegates.
Ad.ly, an ad network developed for Twitter, reportedly has raised $5 million in new funding and named a new CEO. GRP Partners led the funding round, which also included Greycroft Partners and LowerMyBills founder Matt Coffin. The new CEO is Arnie Gullov-Singh, who formerly held the position of executive VP of product, technology and operations at Fox Audience Network. Founder former CEO Sean Rad will become President.
The L.A.-based startup matches advertisers with popular Twitter accounts such as those of artists and other celebrities to send sponsored Tweets to their followers.
More than 75 music applications have been built over the course of the last year using music recommendation, remixing and playlisting tools from the Echo Nest developer platform. The company is now adding licensed music to its range of services through a deal with Dada Entertainment’s Play.ME service.
The partnership basically allows developers to access the Play.ME catalog when creating apps using the Echo Nest’s technology. Previously, developers would have to separately seek out music licenses after building their apps, the complexity of which Echo Nest CEO Jim Lucchese says results in many useful apps never seeing the light of day.
“The power of third-party developer communities have been locked out of music largely because of the rights issues,” he says. “They don’t know what mechanical rights are. They don’t want to know. They just want to build a great music app and put it in front of the world. We’re now giving developers access to licensed content and an ability to make money on these apps.”
The online advertising market is showing signs that it’s returned to a growth trajectory.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau tallied a 7.5 percent rise in first-quarter U.S. online ad spending compared to the same period a year ago. According to the IAB’s audit, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, first-quarter revenue totaled $5.9 billion.
Separately, comScore released data that shows the online industry served 1.1 trillion ads to U.S. consumers in the first quarter. The firm estimates U.S. online display ad spending in the quarter at $2.7 billion, with an average impression cost per thousand of $2.48.
ComScore viewed the figures as confirmation of a “strong resurgence in the online display ad market.”
Similarly, PwC Assurance partner David Silverman said in a statement that the IAB figures show “continued signs of an improved economy and interactive advertising industry.”
The IAB found a sequential decline of 6 percent in online ad spending from the Q4, traditionally the strongest quarter of the year.
Metallica’s Australian tour is shaping up as some kind of monster.
Four arena concerts have been added to the Australian leg of Metallica’s World Magnet Tour in a response to “overwhelming demand” for tickets, promoter Michael Coppel Presents announced today (May 11).
The metal veterans’ Australian run has doubled in size to 12 dates; when Melbourne-based MCP unveiled the tour last month, just six shows were on the slate.
The tour, Metallica’s first on these shores since 2004, will kick off Oct. 18 with successive nights at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, followed by two dates at Burswood Dome in Perth, a hat-trick of performances at Sydney’s Acer Arena, a pair of shows at Adelaide’s Entertainment Centre and concludes Nov. 21 with the last of three shows at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena.
Although the latest trek stretches across more than a full month, the band members won’t be sunning themselves in Australia for the duration. There is a two-week gap in the middle of the itinerary, which allows the group to return home to San Francisco for a break.
There’s been a lot of bad press for Adobe’s Flash technology in recent weeks, but new website Navigaya reminds us why people got excited about it in the first place.
Billed as a content discovery service, it’s focused mainly on music videos at launch, running in full-screen and pulling videos in from sites including YouTube, Vimeo and MetaCafe. Users can create playlists using drag’n’drop thumbnails, and access other websites, Twitter and even video-chat with friends from within the site.
The company plans to offer its technology to other services on a white-label basis, and is working on an HTML5-based version for iPhone and iPad. It’s well worth a look.
he days when the music industry got excited about Second Life seem a long time ago. Mainly because they are. But there is a new generation of virtual worlds emerging with music at their heart.
We’ve had Music Mogul, Loudcrowd, Mixm8 and ToonsTunes, and now there’s a new entrant:Rocktropia. Described as a “theme park for rock fans”, it’s part massively multiplayer game and part virtual world, with plans for branded zones for specific artists.
Lemmy out of Motorhead already has his own castle there. People sign up for free, but the business model is based around virtual item sales. Founder Jon Jacobs famously bought an asteroid within the Entropia virtual world for $100,000 – and still managed to turn a profit from it. So if anyone can make money from virtual music, it’s him.
“Music artists, whether they are big or small, have to find ways to monetize their content as the music industry is changing,” Jacobs tells VentureBeat. “Ten years ago, they realized they needed a web presence. They created web sites, joined MySpace, and launched on the social networks. But it is hard for them to monetize those things. Here, we have created a destination with a real cash economy built right into it.”
It makes me so happy when I am reading articles on other news sites and see bands doing something really smart. For example, the band I The Mighty decided to both sell and put up their debut EP in exchange for some sharing. As you can see in the above shot taken from their MySpace, they did the smart thing of giving away each track in exchange for a different method of sharing. A great way to get your fans to really spread the word and stay in touch with you. Very smart!
By itself, task manager GQueues is pretty handy—a list-oriented task manager with sub-tasks, due dates, assignments, tagging, and other neat features. But its integration with Google sign-in, Calendar, and Google Apps make it more than just another to-do app.
Not everything that GQueues offers is free, as email/SMS reminders, task assignments, and the advanced Calendar integration require a $25/year subscription (though there’s a two-week trial to see if they’re needed). Even on its free terms, though, GQueues is a nice-looking app that uses Google OAuth sign-in, so you don’t give it your password and yet don’t have to create a new password.
You create tasks, sub-tasks, notes, and tags on to-do items in a familiar fashion, and can also share those tasks with others, embed them in a public or private web page, and move items around in priority order using drag and drop. GQueues’ video demonstration shows off some usage examples of the app:
GQueues is a free app to use in its basic form, with advanced features part of a $25/year subscription plan.
Facebook is a critical promotional vehicle for Artists, as there are more people (and potential fans) using the site every day than almost anywhere else on the internet.
As a result, ReverbNation has recently added a new feature that allows any Artist to capitalize on the free promotional opportunities at Facebook in just 2 clicks.
This is new Facebook Sharing Widget, and you can learn how to use it right now with this video:
