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Alice in Chains Giving Away New Single “A Looking in View”

Today was one of those days that best resembles Christmas morning. I woke up to discover that Alice in Chains have released the first single from their upcoming album Black Gives Way to Blue. But, it got even sweeter. It turns out that AIC are giving the song away for free at their official site. Read More >> (460 words, 6 images, estimated 1:50 ... [Read more of this review]

Greg Rollett & Eric Hebert Join Forces to Bring You “Label 2.0″

It is with great pleasure that I bring you the following announcement! I have teamed up with genyrockstars.com marketing extrodinare Greg Rollet, and we have started a new record label dubbed “Label 2.0″. Read More >> (1919 words, 9 images, estimated 7:41 mins reading time) Read More →

Pearl Jam Rocks The Tonight Show With “Got Some” From Upcoming Album Backspacer

Last night’s debut of the new Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien turned out to be a HUGE night for Pearl Jam fans - the band debuted a new song from their upcoming album Backspacer called “Got Some”. The single is rumored to be released in July with the album dropping September 22nd. Read More >> (563 words, estimated 2:15 mins... [Read more of this review]

What You Can Learn From The Pearl Jam Live Experience

There’s nothing like the moment when the lights go out, the audience roars, the shadowy figures appear on stage, and then there’s the opening note. Ah, there’s nothing like that euphoric concert. Most bands have it, others don’t. Pearl Jam defiantly has it. Read More >> (657 words, estimated 2:38 mins reading time) Read More →

Free The MySpace Standalone Player From Those Awful Layouts With This Bookmarklet

This is a guest post from Paul Fenlon, a gifted web developer, drummer, and friend of evolvor.com. Thanks Paul for this wonderful lil’ tool that will make browsing MySpace way less frustrating in the future! Read More >> (381 words, 2 images, estimated 1:31 mins reading time) Read More →

Pearl Jam Teams With Rhapsody, Rock Band For Fan Project

We all love Rock Band and Guitar Hero, and for fans of acts like Aerosmith, Metallica, Van Halen and The Beatles, it doesn’t get much sweeter. However, Pearl Jam are shaking up the format a bit. Instead of fans being presented an already formatted package, the fans will actually be making their own Pearl Jam Rock Band. Read More >> (186 words,... [Read more of this review]

How Does Pearl Jam Keep Fans In The Loop? It’s Called the Ten Club

It’s May, which can only mean one thing…a month long dedication to the Pearl Jam! This year we’ve decided to have a little theme within our Pearl Jam love. That theme would be how Pearl Jam is one of the most fan friendly bands out there. Read More >> (356 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time) Read More →

Press Release: SoundOps Online Mastering Delivers an Earful

Digital music is not the future; it is the now, with record sales numbers for paid downloads and the continued rise of file sharing. Read More >> (786 words, 1 image, estimated 3:09 mins reading time) Read More →

Pay-to-Play of Jango Echoes AdWords (And That’s A Good Thing!)

For those who aren’t too web savvy, do you know why Google blew up a few years back? It was because of their pay-per-click ad service called AdWords and it makes them a f%$#load of money. Read More >> (238 words, 1 image, estimated 57 secs reading time) Read More →

Distribution and the Speed of Sound: The Indie Advantage

It’s been too long since I’ve spent an afternoon in an actual record store. There’s something about it, besides nostalgia, that just feels good - wandering around to look at all the album artwork and inspect the grooves on the used vinyls before asking the dude up front if I can listen before I buy anything. Read More >> (475 words,... [Read more of this review]

A Look Into Billy Corgan’s Premium Subscription Service

I mentioned last week the DMB iTunes pass, and how I think this kind of “paid content” premium membership stuff is going to be the bread-and-butter of the music business for artists struggling to sell CD’s in a thieves’ world. Read More >> (813 words, 1 image, estimated 3:15 mins reading time) Read More →

Blogoholica: 360 Deals, iTunes, Nimbit, Radio & Lefsetz VS Simmons

If you follow me on Twitter you might have gotten word that I cleaned out my blogroll over the weekend. Between two new huge jobs and my computer taking a dirt nap, it was the last thing on my mind. Luckily a few weekend hours on the couch and I sifted through 5,000 feeds to bring you some cool stuff to check out. Read More >> (694 words, 5 images,... [Read more of this review]

A New Meaning: An Interview With Cyrenic’s Brian Zuckerman

I had the pleasure of interviewing Brian a few months back, and with the release of his second album, A New Meaning, I figured now’s a good time to publish it! Read More >> (1395 words, 4 images, estimated 5:35 mins reading time) Read More →

The Music Biz Then & Now - Guest Post by Frank Joshua

Some 20 years ago I was a struggling musician in London playing every shitty venue in town trying to get a ‘deal’. As I look at the music biz from this perspective I’m wondering; a) what are the connections between what I learned then and what I see now and Read More >> (882 words, 5 images, estimated 3:32 mins reading time) Read More →

Dave Matthews Band Releases iTunes Pass For “Big Whiskey”

A few months ago, Depeche Mode released what I believe was the first ever iTunes pass. Basically, this was a pre-order of their new album that featured an advance tracks in addition to exclusive content while fans awaited the release of the new album. Read More >> (380 words, 1 image, estimated 1:31 mins reading time) Read More →

MOG Relaunches As Music Blog Aggregator and The Web’s Home Page For Music

I got word that Mog.com relaunched over the weekend; here is their official press release regarding their new features and direction. Official Mog PR: I think you’ll agree, our new home page (http://mog.com) is now your primary destination for staying on top of what’s going on in music. Read More >> (708 words, 1 image, estimated 2:50 ... [Read more of this review]

Where The Wild Things Are Trailer’s Arcade Fire - “Wake Up”

Ah, the art of music in movie trailers. It’s not as easy as you think. Think about all the trailers that you see. How many times do you hear familiar those instrumental pieces from Hans Zimmer (”Rain Man,” “The Dark Knight,” “Gladiator”) or Graeme Revell (”The Crow,” “Sin City, “From... [Read more of this review]

Keeping It Real In Today’s Music Industry - Guest Post By Godamus Rhyme

This is a guest post regarding a question I posted my readers earlier this week - What’s the most important thing to becoming a successful musician in 2009? Your average person might think the above question was a simple one with this simple answer: good music. Your average person would also be dead wrong. Read More >> (1080 words, 5 images, estimated... [Read more of this review]

ReverbNation’s New Product Helps The Clintons Land “Jim Beam” Sponsorship Deal

ReverbNation, the preferred music marketing and promotion platform for over 375,000 artists, labels, managers, and venues, has launched FanReach Pro, a professional version of the popular FanReach email service used by over 80,000 bands to manage fan communications. FanReach Pro is designed from the ground up to help artists, venues and record labels... [Read more of this review]

Trent Reznor Discusses Music Biz With Digg Founder Kevin Rose

If you’re not a regular Digg user then this probably went under your radar; Trent answers questions from the Digg community, including many about the future of the music biz. Check it out: Permanent link to this post (34 words, estimated 8 secs reading time) Read More →

15 Years Later: Reflections on Kurt Cobain & Nirvana

As many of you probably know, April 5, 2009 marked fifteen years since Kurt Cobain committed suicide. Nirvana wasn’t the first of the so called “grunge” bands, but they were the band that brought Seattle to the world. Read More >> (1137 words, 5 images, estimated 4:33 mins reading time) Read More →

Introducing the Evolvor.com Contributing Authors Program

As someone who is heavily involved in the digital music realm, one of the things that becomes a challenge is staying on top over everything - between the 40-50 hours per week working on almost every aspect of the web, from coding and technical issues, writing and editing, doing research, setting up schedules and budgets, emailing, chatting on IM, wasting... [Read more of this review]

Green Day Set Release for ’21st Century Breakdown’

Green Day’s long awaited follow-up to 2004’s “American Idiot” will hit shelves on Friday May, 15. The band’s eighth studio album, “21st Century Breakdown”, seems to be another rock opera type of album. It will follow a couple, Christian and Gloria, through this crazy century. Read More >> (152 words, 1 image,... [Read more of this review]

Scott Weiland - “Killing Me Sweetly”

For some unexplained reason I’ve been listening to Scott Weiland’s second solo album “Happy in Galoshes” a lot lately. I think the album as a whole is pretty sweet. Puts me in a very relaxed mood. But one track has been sticking out like no other, which would be “Killing Me Sweetly”. Read More >> (112 words, 6 images,... [Read more of this review]

The Best Album You’re Not Listening To (Yet) The Scenic Route - North

I’ve actually had this album for well over 6 Months now - I got an early release and was kept under orders not to let anyone hear it until it was finished (and I complied!) I present to you The Scenic Route, one of the Delaware Valley’s best kept secrets, and their full length debut album, North. Read More >> (135 words, 5 images, estimated... [Read more of this review]

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