Read Write Enterprise has a nifty profile on buzzworthy pop-rockers Chester French, who took the initiative and recently built their own app on the Salesforce platform. It’s essentially a “VIP application” where fans can benefit from being on a VIP list. According to RWE, the more they promote the band, the more points they get along  Read more »

Digital Music News has the skinny on some recent correspondence from telecom giant Verizon. Perhaps feeling a bit more emboldened by its big Droid launch, the company has sent notices to folks that might be labeled as music-infringing customers as a courtesy to major label partners represented by the RIAA. Verizon seems to be taking  Read more »

Flavorpill  does up a nice Q+A with DJ/rupture, the turntablist extraordinaire/journalist/WFMU stalwart who discusses favorite cities, tunes and more. Along the way, he talks about having to circumvent the internet to access music in the third world by having to actually listen to it firsthand.