Internet radio provider Pandora has gained a lot of listeners via their iPhone app, but they’re increasingly taking aim at commuters. The company has hired George Lynch (not the Dokken guitar player) as the VP of automotive business development. Lynch was last at SiriusXM, where he was VP of automotive partnerships. The company had already announced [...]
Friday, January 8, 2010
For years, traditional thinking has said that when the Internet comes to cars, terrestrial and satellite radio are screwed. That reality has become one step closer with Pioneer’s announcement at the CES that they’re teaming up with Pandora for their high-end ACIC-X920BT receiver. Mashable reports that come March, early adopters that pick up the navigation/entertainment in-dash [...]
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Thanks to Hypebot for pulling this nifty graphic from Compete. Pandora and Last FM, among others, continue to bring in more and more listeners at a steady rate. By the looks of it, the royalty people are more likely to destroy online radio before a general lack of interest does it in.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
After settling on new royalty rates, Pandora is compensating their increased costs by limiting users to 40 hours per month with a $0.99 monthly fee for the remainder of that month. From their blog: The revised royalties are quite high – higher in fact than any other form of radio. As a consequence, we will have [...]
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
After an extremely long negotiation period, “pure-play” webcasters (those who are not part of large corporations or are also over-the-air broadcasters) have reached a settlement for royalty payments to SoundExchange. The agreement includes the massively popular Pandora. From Hypebot: On his RAIN blog, one of the chief industry negotiators, Kurt Hanson of AccuRadio, wrote: “This [...]
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Until recently, music recommendation/internet radio service Pandora accepted music from independent artists at no cost, in any form, even home-burned CD’s. Hypebot now reports submitting your own music has a few extra steps, and some costs. In part because of a deal to display album cover art via Amazon.com’s servers, submissions must now be available [...]
The Haunted will release a new live DVD/CD called Road Kill on June 8 via Century Media Records.
Rush- The Documentary, a new documentary focusing on Rush, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 24.
The Dillinger Escape Plan has added more dates to their Spring tour with Darkest Hour, Iwrestledabearonce and Animals As Leaders.
GWAR, Andrew W.K., Billy Bragg and more will perform at the Mess With Texas (MWTX) Party 4. The two day festival will be held in Austin, Texas on March 19-20.
Bullet For My Valentine’s video for the song “The Last Fight” has been posted online.
Friday, March 5, 2010
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