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*Check out the full schedule HERE The Bunbury Music Festival has just announced that in addition to Weezer, Jane's Addiction, and Death Cab For Cutie the event will feature the following artists:    Friday, July 13Janes AddictionAirborne Toxic Event - Minus the Bear - O.A.R Foxy Shazam -...

According to AppData, more than 17 million artist profiles have dumped Bandpage, Reverbnation, and BandRx from their Facebook Page since switching to timeline. The main reason being that they can not set their artist profile page generated by a third party as the default page. Many artists have...

Twitter recently launched a page on their website aimed at helping musicians and artists best utilize the tool to connect with their fans. I think every local band should give this a quick read and start to implement a few recommendations. The biggest mistake I see a lot of people do is use Twitter...

Macy's Music Festival is gearing up for their 50th annual event at Paul Brown Stadium Friday, July 27th & Saturday, July 28th! Artists include Charlie Wilson, Ledisi, Monica, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Midnight Star, Eric Benet, KEM, The O'Jays, and Dennis Edwards & The...

Digital Music News reports that Accountants and Attorneys are the highest paid members of a successful artist team. You can probably throw promoters down there at the bottom, unless you are Louis Messina… "The Future of Music Coalition recently interviewed thousands of artists about the...

There are talks that Tar Entertainment will be making "I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution" by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum into a movie. The book takes us back to the first decade of MTV's infancy. According to Amazon:  "It was a pretty radical idea-a channel for...

There were many bits of tech news that came out of SXSW last week. One of the more common themes across panels was the use of this new website called Stageit.com. They allow artists to set up a live broadcast on their website (like UStream and Youtube) & charge people to watch it. 'Tickets' can...

Day two of SXSW is on the books. For those of you that don't follow along @Cincy_Music, Cincinnati's own Ohio Knife staged a big guerrilla PR stunt right in the middle of SXSW today. With help from Landor Unleash, Ohio Knife quickly set up on the street and performed a few songs while they gave...

This year will mark my second at SXSW. After getting acclimated on Wednesday by researching the schedule to find my way through all the panels, parties, and shows, I was ready to embark on my first full day of the festival. I headed to the Austin convention center to watch Bruce Springsteen perform...

Andrew WK stars in a new web series named "Lets Big Happy" that will be distributed by Myspace. The seven episode series is designed to break relatively young bands to a larger audience. Bands that appear in the first set of episodes include We Are Scientists, Chiddy Bang, Math The Band, The Gay...

I figured it would be appropriate to address one of my least favorite aspects of the music industry given the number of large on-sales this time of year. I have seen a great number of people get screwed out of tickets or be completely ripped off by scalpers in my short time in this business. Some...

Mark Twain once said, "When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times."  Well, that statement does not hold true for the announcement made today by Riverbend Music Center.  Cincinnati is now home to the first amphitheatre in the...