Through each decade of triumphs and tragedies, our musical heroines and heroes have inspired us by tapping into our collective angst and anger, and then translating those emotions into song, releasing timeless tracks that are appreciated and adored from one generation to the next. 2017 is definitely one for the world’s-gone-mad record books, making Stephen […]
Live Streaming Schedule for Life is Beautiful Music & Arts Festival
It’s already Day 2 of the Life is Beautiful Music & Arts Festival and the weather has been cooperating nicely, with an unusual, and almost Los Angeles-like “sunny and 72 degrees” flow going for this time of year. Today the live streaming feature on of the festival continues on Yahoo.com/lifeisbeautiful, brought to fans by Toyota.
Toyota and VH1 Save the Music at Life is Beautiful
Toyota’s Music Den has been on tour during the festival season and arrives this weekend for Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival in downtown Las Vegas (September 22-24). The Music Den serves almost as a mini-festival within a festival, curating more intimate musical experiences for the fans by bringing the performers up close and […]
HBO’s The Defiant Ones Is About Much More Than Music and Hip-Hop
By Kim Owens, Liz Graves In 1958, the New York Times ran a review of the film, The Defiant Ones, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, “a remarkably apt and dramatic visualization of a social idea – the idea of men of different races brought together to face misfortune in a bond of brotherhood,” wrote […]
Brand Woke: Smirnoff Sound Collective & Mixmag Take on Diversity in Music
My friend Todd and I were catching up at Wheelhouse, a bike-inspired café tucked in between industrial buildings and cement landscapes. It was open and airy with elements of wood and nature in the evolving downtown Los Angeles neighborhood; a place where locals convene away from the more packed-out, well-known coffee hangouts. Along with chats […]
Live Nation Expands Their Content Reach on Hulu, in VR, and on Twitter
“While standing in the back of the room watching partners Kevin Chernett from Live Nation and Noah Heller from Hulu on stage at C-Space @ CES, going through it with Will Mason from UploadVR, my nerves were going haywire,” Jeff Nicholas, Director of VR Creative + Production for Live Nation Studios, stated in his post […]
John Oliver Returns to Rally the Net Neutrality Troops – WTF Took You So Long?!
More than three months ago, almost to the day, I wrote about the new FCC and how it will impact live streaming for consumers and content creators, “In addition to the endless lists of chaotic and unreal moves made by the new administration in the past few weeks, the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is […]
Top Music Acts to Catch at Canadian Music Week 2017
This week I fly out to Toronto (unfortunately, on United Airlines…wish me luck) for my third Canadian Music Week, the annual music business conference and festival. In addition to having the pleasure of being on the panel, “Brands in the Music Space: A Debate on the Pros and Cons” (sorry, couldn’t resist the plug), attending […]
Fan of Killswitch Engage? Check Out Their First-Ever Live Streamed VR Show Tonight
Killswitch Engage are touring and performing veterans, but tonight, April 17, the band ventures into new ground during their Killthrax Tour with Anthrax. For the first time the Killswitch show (Anthrax will not be included) will be broadcast live in virtual reality from Houston’s House of Blues starting at 11pm CT.
Coca-Cola Brings Live Streaming VR to the Vive Latino Festival
Coca-Cola’s Media & Digital Marketing Deputy Dir., Ernesto Almada Brito, shares how the company continues to expand innovation and adopt new technologies like VR live streaming to stay relevant and connected to consumers. Recently, the 131 year anniversary took place for the first batches of Coca-Cola were concocted by the company’s founder, John Pemberton, taking […]