Review of Details Tech & Tastemakers Summit
By Jesse Kirshbaum Occasionally, it’s refreshing to attend an event outside your industry. You don’t assume the answers to the questions, you listen harder, you discover connections to your own world that you wouldn’t have previously thought about. So yesterday morning I strolled down to the West Village to check out the first Details Magazine
The MTV Video Music Awards & the Big Push in Social Media
By Dave Mainella Earlier this week, we wrote about the VMA’s groundbreaking voting method, encouraging fans to vote for their favorite artists with hashtags on Twitter, Instagram, and Vine. But this is just one of the ways the MTV Video Music Awards, now just a few short days away (Sunday, 9pm), has incorporated social media
Vote for SoundCtrl & DJ Funkmaster Flex at SXSW Interactive 2014
By Dana Sedgwick It’s that time of year again… when everyone pimps their SXSW panel and asks you to vote for them. Well we’re throwing our hat into the ring and are proud to submit an intimate conversation with a legendary radio host turned digital curator DJ Funkmaster Flex – Building Your Digital Brand. We caught
The #VMAs #love #Instagram #Vine and #Twitter
By Michael Valinsky It seems as though the VMAs are no longer the traditional award ceremony, or at least they’re pushing the traditional to a whole new #modern level. For this year’s awards ceremony, the VMAs are letting the audience, “the people”, vote and choose their favorite artists through Vine. This is a pretty smart
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Soundings at MoMa: Exploring the Presentation & Representation of Sound
By Michael Valinsky This past Saturday marked the opening of the Museum of Modern Art’s first sound art exhibition: a group show comprising multi-genre work by 16 different artists. While the definition of sound art involves aural pieces (rooms filled with various sounds and noises), Soundings: A Contemporary Score does not limit itself to literal
New Interview Series #CRWN w/ Elliott Wilson is Making Waves Coast to Coast
By Dana Sedgwick Seattle had the chance to get to know its hometown hero last night, Macklemore, as he took the stage with Rap Radar founder Elliott Wilson for the fourth installment of new series #CRWN. An “inside the actors studio”- esk event, CRWN features down to earth interviews with rappers that are filmed in