Green Apple Festival
As some of you may know, Earth Day is coming up soon. In celebration every year for the past three years, the Green Apple Festival has held a free concert in cities around the country. This year, they are revamping the system a bit, in the hopes of encouraging as much enthusiasm to volunteer as to…
iPhone Newest Addition to Orchestra
I think most of us have heard of the Lap Top Orchestra at this point (if you haven't you MUST check it out). Well, Ge Wang, particpant in our favorite Geek Orchestra, is now the conductor of something even more tech savvy and musically mobile: Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO for short). WATCH THIS Using the iPhone…
$75,000 Gets You a Famous Personal Assistant, A Cruise on Shrooms, and more
Last month, Bob Lefsetz, popular music industry blogger, did a post on the wacky shenanigans of Josh Freese, a drummer most well known for his Devo days, though his list of accomplishments is well established (Devo, The Vandals, NIN, A Perfect Circle…). Lefsetz wasn't focused on Freese's new album or his sweet drumming technique, but…
Free Music Service Launched Today in China
In an effort to monetize an un-monetized music market in China, Google launched a music service available only in China today. The main objective is to draw Internet users from "China's Google," Baidu to, well, Google. With an effective deal between Top100.cn and over 140 labels, including the four majors (for now), EMI, Warner, Sony and Universal, Chinese can…
How to Effectively Demonstrate Putzhood
Mohandas Gandhi once said, “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” Gandhi certainly was an optimist. As a 24-year-old law student originally from Long Island now living in Austin, Texas, I feel uniquely qualified to address my generation’s pessimism. What…
Op-Ed: All Industries Run in Cycles
Everyone is so worried about the state of the music industry and it just continues to bother me. I am young, but I know this: Everything works in cycles. Everything. Music tastes, the state of the economy, housing markets, exchange rates, skinny jeans… Some of these cycles are longer than others, but they are cycles regardless. Business…
Ticketmaster President Speaks Up About Phish and TicketsNow
In an exclusive interview with Ticketmaster North America President, David Butler, Hidden Track journalist Luke Sacks explores the Phish presale mishap, TicketsNow, how they battle scalpers and the passionate following of Phish. In Short: The presale was the total fault of human error at Ticketmaster for which an "I'm sorry" in the form of a $50 gift certificate…
FCC Open Call On Tech Agenda
A couple years ago, a thing called Legislation 2.0 was getting a lot of attention as Senators and Representatives began asking for the input of bloggers in writing legislation regarding the national broadband strategy. It was a bit of an experiment, but the theory was basically, "Hey, we have the Internet and there are some…
Woodstock 2009?
The 40th Anniversary of 1969's Woodstock Festival is this year. As celebration, Woodstock founder Michael Lang is trying to plan a free, green festival. Lang was reported at a SXSW panel saying, "We want to have as small a carbon footprint as we can and use as many green techniqes as we can." The ideas are…
SXSW is Taking Over the World (in a good way)
The whole world is at SXSW this week. Seriously. Increasingly renowned for its ability to break new artists and serve as a music business networking Mecca, artists and industry professionals from all over the world trying to make a name for themselves have spent the dough to make the trek- some all the way across…