Hotlist Features The Roots’ Okayplayer and Tribe Called Quest Film
Hotlist, a service that helps you decide which upcoming events you will consider hot, appears to have enlisted The Roots' Okayplayer and the film Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels. Continue reading
ShoutOmatic’s Upgrades Include Great Tools For Music Marketing
ShoutOmatic is a free audible status update service that allows you to create short messages or "shouts" that can be linked from Twitter, played on Facebook or heard on your. Continue reading
Share Your Tour Stories With Intersect
Intersect is yet another social network with some interesting distinctions that make it worth considering for documenting a tour or special musical event. You create entries which are marked by. Continue reading
Bre.ad Offers Promotional Url Shortening
If you follow all things Lady Gaga, you may have heard about her investment in social networking platform called the Backplane. It's a project spearheaded by her business manager Troy. Continue reading
HackLolla Apps Leverage Lollapalooza API
[Update 2] The folks from the festival shared this update: "iLollapalooza was an entry in our HackLolla contest this year. Our official app launched yesterday, it’s called “Lollapalooza Official App”. Continue reading
ConcertsInYourHome Brings Artists & Fans Together For House Concerts
A number of sites for artists to book shows were suggested to me after recently discussing DIYgigs.com. I wrote briefly about four of them but decided to save one, ConcertsInYourHome,. Continue reading
Thomas Dolby’s Floating City Goes Beyond Marketing
Thomas Dolby's recently released web-based game "The Floating City" is both a marketing device for his upcoming album, "A Map of the Floating City", and an interesting project in its. Continue reading
Simple Plan Harness Photo Tagging Power Of ThingLink
ThingLink – a free service that adds links and tags within photos – is proving to be a valuable tool for d.i.y. musicians and music marketers. They've taken photo tagging. Continue reading
4 Gig Booking Sites: BandSurfing, Indie On The Move, Getagig Info, Sonicbids
My recent discussion of DIYgigs.com returned some suggestions for similar web services. Here I briefly discuss four sites, BandSurfing, Indie on the Move, Getagig Info and Sonicbids, focusing on their. Continue reading
GigsWiz & The Human League Help Disrupt The Ticket Industry
TicketMaster has long been unpopular with both music fans and many bands. GigsWiz' approach to building an alternative was to create a system that rewards artists for ticket sales resulting. Continue reading
