John Jurgensen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 13, 2011 at 2:56 pm PT
Director Chris Milk’s new music video, released yesterday, introduces a young woman roaming a postapocalyptic landscape, and features a song from the coming album “Rome” by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi. But for some viewers the video’s main attraction will be the technology used to create it.
Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2011 at 2:59 am PT
BoomTown is officially voting for the JaneDear Girls, after seeing the hot country duo’s effective use of Keenan Cahill, a.k.a. the weird little lip-synch dude on YouTube.
While the pair–Susie Brown and Danelle Leverett–have been rocketing up the country charts with their self-titled debut album, they delivered a rap-style offering, called “Need Ya Vote,” using the odd Cahill’s talents.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2011 at 10:33 am PT
Roger Waters and crew said they didn’t want their record label selling singles in Apple’s music store. But those concerns seem to have been resolved.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 24, 2010 at 1:51 pm PT
A musical holiday greeting, suitable for tracking Santa’s progress.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 16, 2010 at 7:39 am PT
The big news: Albums and singles. Apple has an ad campaign cued up, of course–you can see some inside.
Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT
Tonight, Yahoo is introducing a new set of search upgrades, moving to focus on boosting its experience for consumers as it ports responsibility for underlying search technology to Microsoft under its new partnership.
Among the new enhancements: A vertical “accordion” paradigm with shortcuts on search results that allow for new kinds of information presentation; “quick apps,” beginning with one for Netflix that lets its members add movies to their queue directly from the search results page; slideshows within search from the “Trending Now” lists on Yahoo; more immersive and theater-style photo and video search; and a new mobile search experience that uses HTML5 technology.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 4, 2010 at 9:02 pm PT
Want your classical music on your iPhone, now? Sony Music is thinking about you: The label has opened up Ariama, the all-classical online store we told you about last summer.
Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2010 at 8:15 am PT
Yesterday, BoomTown made a brief stop at what felt like an underground bunker in a hotel in San Francisco to see the Doobie Brothers.
Yes, the legendary band of indelible hit songs such as “Black Water” and “China Grove” and misspent youth way, way back in the day.
Except the band, which was founded in San Jose, Calif., in 1970, was performing in a Cisco studio down south in Silicon Valley to telepresence-launch its first album in a decade, called “World Gone Crazy.”
Kara Swisher in News on July 22, 2010 at 12:04 am PT
It’s nice to hear enthusiasm on the part of Linkin Park band member Mike Shinoda about an innovative-for-the-music-industry effort to give fans a chance to be part of the iconic Grammy-winning rock band.
While some artists or content creators cringe at the ongoing flood of user-generated material that has drastically changed the industry, Shinoda is hoping to find some real talent via a new online contest, called “Linkin Park, Featuring You,” that gives anyone an opportunity to collaborate with the band to produce an original song based on some of the tracks from the forthcoming single “The Catalyst.”
