Please join me for a special presentation from DEVO INC! I’ll be making a special joint appearance at South By Southwest Interactive with Devo, and Devo’s advertising agency, Mother LA!
Whether you’re a music maker, a music manager, a programmer, designer, information architect or just an unashamed music lover you’re going to want to join us in this spirited review of how we at Devo Inc. are using the internet and technology to reach out to a new audience, test Devo’s music and brand and explain the process of how we are aiming to make something for everybody now that De-evolution is real.
Bill Moulton – Mother Los Angeles
Gerald Casale – Devo
Mark Mothersbaugh – Devo
Jacob – Researcher, Mother
Jeremy Welt – Warner Bros. Records
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Time:
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location:
SXSWi – Austin Convention Center – 18ABCD
City/Town:
Austin, TX
In “early q2″ mog is launching their music service on iphone and android:
On Demand Streams
Downloads – Unlimited downloads of any song or album to your phone
MOG radio
Mobile HQ audio (streaming 64k aac plus, download is 320k)
10$ a month, including web and mobile access
Seems like a competitive offer. Mog also stated they are getting 17% conversion from free trial of there web service.
UPDATE 3.8.2010: Thumbplay contacted me less than 24 hrs after this post, and got me up and running on my blackbery 9760!
Thumbplay launched its music service this week, joining Mog, Rhapsody, Lala, Spotify, Last FM, and Myspace in the already crowded battle between streaming music services. The monthly subscription is $9.99. This is twice the rate of new entrant “MOG” (and $9.99 more than the free myspace!), but you get mobile access for the extra charge. Factoring in mobile makes Thumplay’s offer cheaper than Rhapaody’s similar desktop and mobile plan.
The selling point of Thumbplay Music is the ability to move your music to the cloud in one click by importing your playlists directly from itunes. It took just a few minutes to import 20 playlists, with 500 songs. The “import” was fast and accurate because it was only checking the data with the “cloud”, not actually moving files. You can “import” songs to the cloud regardless of where they came from.
The second differentiator is Thumplay’s mobile access. With a full subscription, you can access your music and playlists from a “smartphone”.
Unfortunately the device list is small:
BlackBerry
Bold 9000
Curve 8900
Storm 9530
Tour 9630
Myspace music is a fun, easy and free way to create playlists. Yes, there are the familiar flaws in the overall myspace interface, but the music features are getting better, and the fact that myspace has most of the content from major, indie and unsigned Artists, makes it worth exploring as a serious playlist destination. Listening does not require log in (yet) but you must be a member to make a playlist. So dig out that old account and log back in to get started.
ARTIST PROFILES – SURF AND ADD!
The best way to start playlisting is surfing Myspace the way you always have: Profiles. All profiles can now tap into the myspace music player and the player has a “+”button next to most of the songs throughout the site.
Plenty of posts and blogs talk about “transparency” in the music business. How Artist’s need to be in direct connection with their fans. Part of the “Conversation”. It’s all buzzwords until it’s real: My continuing adventure with Devo and Devo Inc.
I Originally made this on last year on Imeem and wanted to post it again. But as you know Imeem’s gone away. However it did make its way into myspace via the import! Nice work guys – and every song was there! Hear it in full (log in required)
But I cant share it on my blog with myspace music, so I re-created it in Lala. Thats where the problem was. For some reason Lala doesn’t have the two killer songs (but myspace music does? so i can get it for free, but not via a paid streaming service??)
First one missing on Lala was “Dustland Fairytale” (so i choose the karyoke version!) and next was “This is Your life” (so I choose a different switchfoot song with the same name because that came up first in Lala’s search!) So thanks to rights issues, here it is on Lala with a few adjustments!
My Amazon preferences don’t talk to my itunes ratings or my genius playlist. Neither of them factor in my recommended videos on you tube or vevo. My “ilike’s” don’t tie into my mog preferences…
With all this music and information I still have trouble finding quality stuff I want. And I still miss bands I should know about, or live dates from bands I love!
I’d like a way to set up a highly customizable preference/recommendation engine that followed all my music, video, movies, purchases, streams, and could form “meta recommendations” from them all. Then combine ubiquity of preferences with context (location) and the future connected recommendation experience emerges. Moving seamlessly across sites and services, I could listen to music and media on several different devices and still capture a true picture of my media and commerce behavior. Of course I’d want strong privacy setting that allowed me to benefit from this targeted experience, not just advertisers and merchants!
Anyone working on anything like this? Anyone else want it?
Im excited to be working with DEVO! I am starting on a new project with the band, who is back with Warner Bros Records after many years! Its a brand new model for the business, the band, and WBR.
Watch DEVO inc. CEO Greg Scholl’s first communique now!
Welcome
My name is Jeremy Welt, and I'm exploring the convergence of new media and music cultures.
As SVP of New Media at Warner Bros Records I get to put new ideas into motion with some of the worlds most talented Artists.
I'll be blogging about some of my projects, attempts to launch new music experiences.
