July 2011
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Coheed and Cambria Official: Mic Todd leaves tour,... →
childrenofthefence:
Michael Todd was arrested today on what we consider very serious charges and therefore he will not be finishing up the current tour. Wes Styles, long time member of the Coheed family will take on bass duties starting tomorrow for the remaining dates. No shows will be canceled.
We are surprised…
December 2010
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Daniel Lioneye VIP Packages on Cradle Of Filth... →
Thank you New York, Chicago, Houston and Dallas! VIP packages for Daniel Lioneye have sold out in these markets but are still available in other cities…
June 2010
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eMusic offers Members Only Meet & Greet Giveaway
This month eMusic’s Access & Rewards program is going to let 25 lucky eMusic members (and their + 1s) experience the enthusiasm that is Little Steven Van Zandt - most famous for his two roles: that of Silvio on the Sopranos and, more notably, as longtime Springsteen sidearm in the E Street Band.
On June 16th, at a secret New York location to be announced, Little Steven will be sharing...
February 2010
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Total Recall #FAIL of the Week: @RollingStone for...
On Monday Feb 22nd, our beloved magazine Rolling Stone (and one of the only few we still subscribe the print edition to) had a bit of a blunder with their website.
According to @AdamOstrow, Editor In Chief at Mashable “Someone wake up the domain name admin at Rolling Stone — its website is currently rendering a Network Solutions landing page indicating that the iconic music magazine’s...
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Review: Vanity Fair Hollywood iPhone App
What sets a good branded social media application a part from a great one are these four main components: Reach, Utility, Contextual Relevance and Engagement. Conde Nast’s latest, “Vanity Fair Hollywood” iPhone application is an excellent example of a social media app that was designed with all those components in mind… resulting in an app that is, indeed, inherently “social”.
Conde Nast...
December 2009
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ROCK IS RELIGION AND PIMPS & PINUPS GIVES BACK TO...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ROCK IS RELIGION AND PIMPS & PINUPS GIVES BACK TO BANDS WITH “THIS IS SPINAL CUTS” POP-UP SALON PROGRAM
Call Out for Bands to Participate in the “Rock Is Religion Gives Back” Program: Free Haircuts and Styling for Bands Touring Through New York City
New York, NY – 17th December, 2009 – Rock Is Religion (www.rockisreligion.com), the social media news provider of...
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Q&A with Yangaroo CEO: Providers of B2B digital...
Rock Is Religion spoke with Toronto-based, Yangaroo’s CEO John Heaven about its patented Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS), a secure B2B digital delivery solution for the music and advertising industries. DMDS replaces the physical distribution of audio and video content for music, music videos, and advertising to television, radio, media, retailers and other authorized recipients with...
November 2009
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Papa Roach Takes A Stand: Artist Against Hunger &...
New York, NY - Multi-platinum, Grammy nominated Papa Roach joined Bruce Springsteen, Crosby Stills & Nash, Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, Joss Stone, O.A.R and many others as part of WHY’s Artist Against Hunger & Poverty program.
PapaRoachpartnered with WHY (World Hunger Year) to raise funds and awareness for organizations who are working towards finding answers for hunger, poverty...
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BILLBOARD TOURING CONFERENCE – METAL ROUNDTABLE:...
[via www.MetalInsider.net] —- Billboard Magazine is holding their annual Touring Conference and Awards in New York. While We’ll be bringing you coverage from tonight’s awards ceremony, where Ozzy Osbourne and Mayhem Festival founder Kevin Lyman will be receiving awards, there was a “Metal” roundtable yesterday, and Metal Insider correspondent Emmy Burns was at the roundtable. Here’s her...
July 2009
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Schmoozatorium at The New Music Seminar NYC -...
As album sales are down 50% since 2000, radio is breaking less new music than ever in history. Record companies are signing fewer and fewer new artists and artist development budgets continue to shrink, artists and labels need to all find a new way to get music out there.
The 2009 New Music Seminar NYC is an action packed day of power players in the “new” music industry presenting...
June 2009
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Sponsored Songs: The Next Step for Artists to...
ReverbNation the leading marketing platform for musicians, launches ‘Sponsored Songs,’ a new online music distribution program that will give music fans access to unlimited free song downloads from 1,000 artists.
Sponsored Songs will be available on www.MySpace.com/Windows for free until September 24, 2009, and will feature music from independent and mainstream Artists in the rock, alternative,...
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Taking Care of (The Music) Business: D.I.Y Music...
ReverbNation is the music industry’s version of a “Web 2.0 Fairy Godfather”…
If you’re an artist looking to market your music online, but don’t know where to start, ReverbNation is a platform that provides Artists, Labels, Managers and other Industry Professionals with their own set of digital marketing promotional tools.
Now artists have the ability to manage their fan base, create widgets...
May 2009
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Scion Drives Brand Engagement to DJs
“Given the fact that Scion has always worked with DJs and respected their culture, we wanted to give our audience a useful tool for their craft.” - Jeri Yoshizu, Scion sales promotions manager on the release of “Scion Radio 17 BPM Meter” iPhone and iPod Touch application.
The launch of the free Radio 17 Beats Per Minute (BPM) Meter application is part of Scion’s effort...
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New Platform for Music Videos: Blip.fm Integrates...
Earlier this week, Blip.fm (a.k.a.“Twitter for music”) launched a YouTube integration feature that allows users to have the option of posting music videos directly onto their Blips.
The Twitter social media paradigm was used as the inspiration for Blip.fm, a platform that’s specifically designed to share rich content media, giving users the ability to make music recommendations (in 150 characters...
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Trent Reznor gets Special Achievement Award from...
Despite his recent tantrum for not getting his way from iPhone, Trent Reznor was honored the title of “Webby Artist of the Year”, a Special Achievement Award at the 13th Annual Webby Awards.
According to the announcement on WebbyAwards.com the judges selected Reznor for “making his music available to fans for free, Trent Reznor embraced the true openness of the Internet, similar to the release of...
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Involve Your Fans With Your Brand On Facebook
Involver is a new application for Facebook that turns your Fan Page from generic to dynamic.
The site touts itself as being ”The first complete marketing suite on Facebook”. There is a premium for the service, but some of the individual applications like the RSS Feed, Photo Gallery, You Tube Channel, Twitter, Poll, Coupon, File Sharing, Slides and PDFs are available for free.
Even...
“Mastadon Label Debut http://tinyurl.com/dev3qg”
– @absolutepunk
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RIR's iPhone App of the Week: Virtual Zippo...
Since using a lighter indoors is considered a fire hazard, technology has come to our rescue again, this time in the form of a lighter that can be used to show our appreciation for a rocking ballad.
According to the product description, The Virtual Zippo Lighter opens with a flick of your wrist and lights with a turn of your thumb. The windproof flame sways as you move your iPhone ...
April 2009
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Pay Per Play Word of Mouth: Will Rewarding Status...
Earlier this month, Facebook began the Beta roll out of a new currency system called Facebook Credits. The feature allows users to purchase credits to reward their friends for posting good status updates at the rate of $1 USD for 100 credits. Currently, the system is in Beta mode, and is only available at select colleges only.
Sounds innocent enough: your friend posts a cool status update - you...
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Myspace: A Place For Friends? Or A Place For...
It’s confirmed. Former Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Owen Van Natta is now the newly named CEO of Myspace (who replaced MySpace co-founder and CEO Chris DeWolfe last week).
Adding to the “new changing of the guard”, The Wall Street Journal confirmed yesterday, Myspace officially announced two new appointments, former AOL exec Mike Jones as COO, and Jason Hirschhorn...
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Sponsored Tweets: Good Marketing Or Just Blatant...
It’s no secret that it’s a tough market for the Auto industry now, and for the auto makers who are holding up, they are aware of how important it is to stand out in this competitive environment.
At last week’s New York Auto Show, Land Rover unveiled their new vehicle, as well as a promotional campaign that incited a lot of talks around the water cooler at ad agencies...
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RIR's iPhone App of The Week: iTalk
This one goes out to all the rock reporters out there…
iTalk is an app that allows you to record your interviews directly on your iPhone! That’s right rock reporters, you can now always be ready to interview anyone… any time!
In the pre-iPhone days, as a reporter, you would have to make sure to pack your iPod and additional Griffin microphone (and pre-iPod days, it was the Sony...
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What Will Happen To Myspace When CEO Chris DeWolfe...
The Wall Street Journal confirmed this afternoon that Myspace CEO Chris DeWolfe will officially step down from his post at the company in the near future.
According to the company memo, News Corporation’s Chief Digital Officer, Jonathan Miller announced that, by mutual agreement, Chris DeWolfe will not be renewing his contract and will be stepping down his position as Myspace CEO. DeWolfe will...
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"Top 5 Favorite Things": Now #1 Facebook...
LivingSocial is now officially the top application on Facebook with 20,009,207 monthly active users.
You may be familiar with seeing it on your newsfeed. It’s the one where you get to share your “Top 5” favorite things with your friends e.g. Albums, Books, Movies, Beer, TV Shows etc.
Most recently, LivingSocial created “Picktacular”, a new social gaming app where...
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Not a Twitter Person? Hire a Twintern
This morning The New York Times ran a story about Pizza Hut’s job posting for their “Summer Twintern”.
Not surprising that Pizza Hut are stepping up thier game in the social media space, after last week’s Domino’s YouTube viral video PR disaster.
What we can learn from this is the power of social media, and as much as some people are yet to come on board the Twitter...
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On the Hunt for a new Singles Chart
Traditionally, Billboard has been the best (and only) place to find out who topped this week’s Single and Album charts.
But since the distribution of music has changed and media has gone more viral, relying on only one Chart may not necessarily be the most accurate source.
We Are Hunted (Beta) is a new online music chart that aggregate from social networks, forums, music blogs, Torrents,...
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RIR's iPhone App of the Week: nin: access (but can...
Marketing Translation = “NIN GeoTargeting” (but in this case, instead of ads, the promotion of the “NIN brand”).
The features on this artist-centric NIN iPhone and iPod app includes the opportunity for fans to have access to exclusive NIN up-to-the-minute content. Die-hard NIN fans can now claim bragging rights on being among the first to check out new NIN photos, music...
Have you made the Facebook Connection yet?
With all the social media networks around these days, there are so many passwords to remember, and so little time.
Facebook Connect (now also available on iPhone) saves you the trouble of having to open multiple windows and logging into all your different social media networks to share and bookmark your favorite pages, links etc by allowing you to use your very own Facebook login details for...
Why Be Tiny When You Can Be Cute
If Tinyurl turns your original URL to shorter URLs, Bit.ly creates trackable URLs, then SoCuteURL creates -well, “cute” URLs…
This site not only turns your URLs into a shorter format, it also generates “cute” words at the end of your link e.g. www.rockisreligion.com is now www.socuteurl.com/bugglefuzzers
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WeFollow... Do You? →
If you haven’t done it already, make sure to add yourself to WeFollow.com. It’s a search tool for Twitter that lets you tag yourself in up to 3 categories (at a time) in keywords that best describe you/your brand. It will help Twitter Followers find you when they do a search under a particular category. Make a habit out of placing a “#” tag, followed by your desired...
RIR's iPhone App of The Week: Coachella →
This year, Coachella takes one step further on the social media path by creating a Coachella iPhone app that allows festival goers to plan out their day and even locate their friends.
If this kind of app takes off, could this be the end of the paper-printed “Official Event Program”? And could we be seeing a record label or instrument company sponsoring a Festival iPhone app in the...
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Big on Facebook = Big In Japan
Facebook has now hit its 200 million members mark… to put that into perspective, that’s like, the population of Japan.
In less than eight months, the social networking site doubled its membership numbers, surpassing its competitor Myspace. Over 50% of its users log on to Facebook at least twice a day, with the fastest growing demographic being 35.
To celebrate its 200 million milestone,...
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Why Social Media is kinda like Punk Rock...
In many ways, social media has become the anti-establishment version of the mainstream media. The way information is distributed is through a less hierarchical channel (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Myspace) centered around short bits of information (e.g. Blogs, Tweets, Updates). And like Punk, it also embraces a DIY ethic where self-publishing and grassroots marketing is the key to getting the message...
March 2009
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Why The Music Industry Should Be Exploding With...
New Facebook brand pages, (now referred to as “Public Profiles”) is the best thing to happen for artist promotion since the introduction of Myspace.
Why? Because you can now totally customize your profile to direct your fans to a landing page of what you’re trying to promote right now! Also with this new version of FB, when brands post news, it will appear directly in your fan’s news...
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Note to Bands: Don't Forget to Update Your New...
Now that Facebook has relaunched their new Fan Page, it means that artists can now do even more promotion on the platform.
The redesign that occurred last Wednesday (3/11) not only allow artists to create their Fan Pages to resemble Personal Profile Pages, but also the ability to include more info in a user-friendly tabulated format (i.e. one tab for band info, one for Tour dates, one tab for...
The Republic Project →
Cut out the Middle-Man…
Another new platform that allows Artists to market directly to their fans
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February 2009
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January 2009
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Rock Is Religion →
“For those about to Rock, We salute You”
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