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(TrendHunter.com) With Simplify Media’s free app, iPhone users are no longer restricted to listening to just the songs they’ve synced from their computers. Anyone who’s ever owned an MP3 player is accustomed to being able…
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Vodafone and MTV have announced the launch of a multi-platform programme, Vodafone Soundbites. The companies say the programme will explore every aspect of the global music scene, featuring international artists’ interviews at gigs and festivals, bands’ fantasy group line-ups, pre-show rituals and performers describing their first time on stage.
Vodafone Soundbites is available now on TV, online, and on mobile at: wap.mtv-vodafonesoundbites.com as a series of 21, three-minute shows. The website and mobile service carry additional footage, as well as editorial and news elements.
Vodafone Soundbites is available in seven languages on MTV in Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, the UK and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and on the MTV European feed, covering 16 countries. The programme is supported by an MTV-created promotional spot, driving viewers to the premiere of each show. Each show will air four times in each territory on TV.
The launch of Vodafone Soundbites follows the two companies’ recent collaboration on Vodafone Music Reporter’, which they describe as “an online global interactive profile”, hosted by Myspace. Vodafone Music Reporter offers music fans in some countries a chance to become an MTV reporter in an online and mobile episode of Vodafone Soundbites.
“Through our partnership with MTV, Vodafone is successfully building on its long-lasting music heritage and continues to bring music to its customers whenever they want it, wherever they are,” says Vodafone Global Brand Director, David Wheldon. “Vodafone Soundbites is a pioneering multiplatform communications show, will be delivered in 29 countries and will allow millions of fans to experience music on mobile through Vodafone and its partners’ high speed, reliable networks, online and TV.”
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Yes, always the dramatic one. Remember that post from a few days ago? Has no meaning except 9 just stands for today’s date, the same date, by the way, I’d been meaning to go see the band but never got to buying tickets. Enter the good folks from WOM World and put an offer I could not refuse - again, accompany a group of Nokia and WOM World folks to the All Points West Music & Arts Festival, armed with Nokia 5310 Express Music (my device came by mail yesterday) and a VIP pass. It did tak
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Finally we see young artists (or rather, their “people”) using mobile to give fans a sneak behind-the-scenes peek. According to PopCrunch
The Jonas Brothers have teamed up with MTV to document live online video content with the band as they prepare to headline New York’s Madison Square Garden this weekend.
Jonas Brothers: Live & Mobile runs live online beginning Friday at 4 p.m. ET through Saturday, August 9, from 8 a.m. through 8 p.m., when the band opens at the Garden.
Fans can visit jonasbros.mtv.com on Friday and Saturday to watch the live streaming video of the brothers preparing for their show
What this post doesn’t mention is that the livestreaming will be done via handset, with mobile broadcasting from Flixwagon. We’re seeing more and more artists (from 50 Cent to David Hasselhoff) embracing mobile video to give a glimpse of inside action and a more personal experience for fans. Other popular sites are Qik, Kyte and Zannel.
The moblogging is going on now, so check it out. The Jonas Brothers have also recorded some ads for MTV of backstage footage with their mobile phones.
The tween-tempting trio will also be broadcasting their tour onto the big screen in 3D next year. (BTW, looks like boy bands have adopted the same nerd-chic as rap stars.)
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Hamburg-based finetunes, one of the leading independent European distributors for digital music and audio content, have just called Last.fm to order. The obvious reason given is copyright infringement. Although we are generally big fans of the idea behind streaming radio services such as Last.fm, it seems a resolution to these ongoing issues between music makers and providers has yet to be reached.
Last.fm has been using music from the finetunes catalogue for their streaming services without permission or dealing with the issue through a local music royalty collecting entity. This stands in apparent contradiction with Last.fm’s stated policy that they negotiate lawfully with respective rights owners.
The legal initiative taken on by finetunes is backed by independent German labels such as Grand Hotel van Cleef, Buback Tonträger and Hot Actions Records who publish famous German bands such as Die Ärzte, Tomte or Die Goldenen Zitronen.
With Last.fm having been acquired by CBS for $280 Million last year, we can’t help but wonder where all the money is going and if there are any plans to compensate the artists and labels featured on the site. How ’social’ is this self-proclaimed “Social Music Revolution” in the end?
We spoke with finetunes CEO Oke Göttlich today about the issue. Oke says:
“We are definitely supporting the growth of the digital music market with innovative business models such as Last.fm. Those are of course an enrichment for the market, as long as the rights owners are included, and this is already common practise in similar online music platforms. However, it is not possible that the artists music is just taken away from them, and being used more than ever but at the same time the artists are not adequately compensated.”
PSFK Germany will track the developments in this case, as it remains a still unresolved and pressing issue for many musicians and labels.
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(TrendHunter.com) If you tend to think ahead of the curve when it comes to emerging songs and artists, Popcuts.com is the place where you can get paid to buy and download music.
Popcuts’ paid program basically rewards…
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Nokia has confirmed that the UK
will be the first market in the world to launch ‘Comes With Music’, the
handset maker’s music service which gives people a year of unlimited
access to the Nokia Music Store catalogue, with the ability to keep all
downloaded tracks even after the year is over.
Carphone Warehouse
will be the exclusive UK pre-pay channel offering the Nokia 5310
XpressMusic ‘Comes With Music’ edition handset. Carphone Warehouse is
accepting pre-orders here, starting today.
“We
believe that Comes With Music will transform the way people enjoy
music,” says Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice President and Head of the
Nokia Entertainment and Communities business. “With unlimited music
access for a year, you can enjoy your favourite artists or delve into
new genres without having to worry about individual track or album
purchases.”
Andrew Harrison, UK CEO of The Carphone Warehouse, says
he expects the Nokia 5310 Comes With Music to be: “the gift for
Christmas and at the top of all shopping lists.”
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In this interview Dave Stewart, one of the creative forces behind the The Eurythmics, talks about how web-based technology has allowed him to unleash his creativity, collaborate with colleagues…
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Artwork still matters
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Bandsintown is a new social networking site that helps you find, well, bands in town - your town.
The idea is this: You create a profile, noting your city and favorite bands (last.fm users can also access their account to pull musical taste). Once in, you can view shows by date range, price range and distance from your city. All upcoming shows will appear as as a tag cloud on the right, with shows that most closely match your musical preferences highlighted.
For example, if you picked Dilated Peoples and Maximo Park as favorite artists, and you lived in Minneapolis, Mos Def and The Fratellis would be a whole lot bigger than Balkan Beat Box and Leann Rhimes.
Through the site, you can also find “fansintown” and, ideally, network with those that have similar taste or are attending the same shows as you. Cool stuff! Is it unique? Yes and no.
Social networks like Facebook operate on the broadest principles of social networking – they start with the network itself and build down. Interests are added to the person. You can find other people who like the X-Files or support Lobsterman for President.
However, niche SNS are built from interests up. For youth, the web is about discovery and experiences–not just superpoking–and music is a vast common ground. (It’s like the weather is for old people.) Bandsintown operates like other music-focused SNS (iLike, iMeem, Blip.fm, even MySpace to some extent), but brings it to the local level. So, like Going.com and Eventful, it helps bring community and recommendations to life, but solely tied to music.
Gen Y lives online, yes, but they also like to go outside. On the whole, they value experiences over content, and music over everything else. They also want things to be easy, automated, and sharable. Thanks to Bandintown’s widgets, you can share your concert schedule with your SNS friends. And speaking of SNS friends, if you follow them on Twitter, you can get free tickets = more fun than weather updates.
Click to download free mobile youth data from the mobileYouth report
