If you’re a registered fanatic.fm artist, send us your upcoming shows and news and we’ll post it here. Just email june@fanatic.fm. Dates, details and links appreciated. Include your fanatic.fm player link too. Thanks! The Dark Lights have released their new single ‘X ray Spectacle 1′. Shows coming up in the UK: 21 January at The Hope, Brighton, UK; 22 […]
October 26, 2011
“The music has to come first. Let the fans have the keys to the car.” – Stu Pflaum Here’s a Rolling Stone article that caught our attention: “The New Economics of the Music Industry.” With the help of a lot of visual aids, the piece looks at how much labels, artists, songwriters and others can expect […]
October 24, 2011
“We’re the only country in the world that thinks art is a luxury. It’s not a luxury. Art is a necessity of life.” - Steve Van Zandt Little Kids Rock recognized Lady Gaga with its “Big Man of the Year” award – named for its first recipient, the late Clarence Clemons, saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street […]
October 20, 2011
fanatic.fm is delighted to work with one of our most exciting artists, Traedonya! on her upcoming “Audio Visual Debutante Events.” fanatic.fm is a media sponsor and will broadcast a livestream of the NYC event on November 3, hosted by June Kinoshita and Katherine Hollinsworth, our worldwide marketing and development team. Can’t wait to see you there! […]
September 19, 2011
Well here’s a pleasant surprise that came across our editorial desk this morning via Google Alert: fanatic.fm – Influencing and Changing the World through Music. A very positive review of fanatic.fm by Rahul Prabhakar, Chief Technical Writer and Editor at OnSuccess. He totally gets our model: Instead of paying for ineffective advertising spots on music sites, sponsors can […]
September 9, 2011
By June Kinoshita, Chief Strategy Officer Little Kids Rock is the subject of this terrific Opinionator post in yesterday’s New York Times. I can totally relate to the message here. I spent years enduring classical violin lessons until a new teacher introduced me to the Bach partitas, and I realized it wasn’t the violin I […]
July 23, 2011
We’re quite fond of this Los Angeles-based indie band, led by the charming, irreverent and madly talented Xander Smith. Long a fixture on the LA underground music scene, Run Run Run has been touring for the past two years, wandering as far afield as Russia. Via legendary musician and producer, Herb Alpert, the band met […]
July 3, 2011
Newly released on fanatic.fm is “All this Desire, No Goal to Reach”, the EP from the Merrickans, a Brooklyn-based ensemble led by Paul Holmes. We are totally loving the sound of this band!! It evokes the melodious optimism of early 1960s bands while sounding fresh and contemporary. It’s wistful, passionate and burrows deep into your […]
July 1, 2011
JOIN THE GLOBAL FANATIC MOVEMENT! Memo to Independent Artists: Why are you hiding? Dear musicians, why do you make it so difficult to contact you? At a time when so many wonderful and talented artists are struggling to make a living with their music or even to be heard, fanatic.fm has come along with a […]
December 28, 2011
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