MySpace mobile will work with any U.S. carrier, the AP article says. Initial advertising will include clickable sponsorships and banner ads. Eventually MySpace will try to sell more targeted advertising, using registration data from cell phone carriers as well as GPS data from phones with that capability.
The free service will be a stripped down version of the premium services offered by AT&T and Helio.
Filed under: Alternative, Apple, Feist, Music, Nano ads, apple ads, indie, ipod
1234 by Feist appears on her latest album, The Reminder. This indie rocker from Calgary has produced a string of sweet, melodic songs with simple, clean arrangements, and 1234 is from the same mold. The single has caught the attention of the digital crowd, with significant traffic on iTunes and elsewhere online, largely because the video of “1234″ is highlighted in the new iPod ads from Apple highlighting the Video Nano.
Check out the video….
You can catch Feist live in concert this Fall. She’s touring Europe through the end of October, and has dates in the US in November.
You can give it a listen at her MySpace page, and her website “ListentoFeist”
Forbes reports that Orange has won the contract to distribute the Apple iPhone in France.
The full story here: Forbes Story
Filed under: media
Carlos Santana teamed up with Chad Kroeger of Nickelback for the original version of 2002’s “Why Don’t You and I” on the multi-platinum album Shaman, though the version you have heard over and over is probably the single recorded the following year with Alex Band of The Calling. Santana has paired with Kroeger again this year on a single called “Into the Night” which is this week’s song of the week. The track will be included on Santana’s new album “The Ultimate Santana”, due out in October.
Santana’s site has just a short clip, but you can find the video in full form on YouTube.
Filed under: Good Charlotte, Good Charlotte. music, Music, Rock, Song of the Week
Good Charlotte’s “I Don’t Want to Be in Love” has the chords and heavy guitar that their anthems on earlier albums held up high as a trademark, but the entire new album, “Good Morning Revival”, is much more produced than their self titled debut, or 2001’s “The Young and the Hopeless”. I miss the raw performances from those early albums, but the pop masses will probably be more accepting of this new, more polished style.
They’re touring the west coast this month with an appearance on Leno thrown in, followed by an Australian tour in October.
Good Charlotte’s website
Good Charlotte’s MySpace page
Filed under: Apple, Microsoft, Nano, Sandisk, Sansa, iPhone, ipod, mp3 player, zune
In the constant battle to keep the iPod ahead of the mp3 player clones, Apple today introduced new models of its iPod and Nano, incorporating new technologies such as WiFi access (much like Sandisk’s Sansa Connect and Microsoft’s Zune) and a touch screen based upon the same technology employed in the iPhone. Having the coolest new technology incorporated into the iPod is essential to Apple’s product strategy, even its corporate aura. With Microsoft working on its second generation Zune player, and countless competitors cranking out cheap mp3-playing glorified storage devices in a variety of innovative packages and economic ranges, Apple no longer has an advantage in distribution or for that matter innovation. Apple hasn’t become the safe, boring alternative yet, and that means that the iPod brand is not yet in decline,… today’s announcement doesn’t restore it lost technological lead, but it does maintain the spectacular marketing lead that Steve Jobs has built.
Read more at Bloomberg
Roger Clemens couldn’t do it. Curt Schilling almost did it earlier this year. But it took a rookie from Texas to give the Boston Red Sox their latest no-hitter, the first since Derek Lowe performed the feat in April, 2002. Buchholz becomes the 20th rookie in major league history to throw a no-hitter, but he is the first rookie ever to do so for the Red Sox.
