As more than 160,000 people descend of the city of Chicago this weekend for the headliner-laden Lollapalooza 2012 music festival, plenty of folks are sitting at home wishing they could go. Well, it turns out they kind of can: Nearly the entire Lollapalooza festival is streaming live online throughout the weekend thanks to YouTube. This year’s Lollapalooza lineup is pretty [...]
Musician Jack White announced that he is launching a new music subscription service called The Vault. The program, through his label Third Man Records, will give members access to both online music and video and to vinyl releases. Premium members can get online videos, forums, ticket presales, artist blogs, and pay-per-view live concerts for just $7 a month. Those who [...]
Former The White Stripes frontman Jack White has stirred a lot of internet anticipation for his new album Blunderbuss — the first solo LP to his name. Now you can see if it’s worthy of the hype: Blunderbuss is available streaming or as a download all over the place today. You don’t have to worry about hunting this one down [...]
Sure, Lollapalooza isn’t an event dedicated to digital music, but in recent years it has been a tech-savvy festival. Last year, many of the acts were live streamed online, there was an iPhone app, there were social media hashtags, and so on. So that’s why we’re so interested in it again this year — that, and Lollapalooza’s 2012 line-up, which [...]
Jack White (or at least his representation) is pulling out every digital stop to promote his new solo album Blunderbuss, which hits April 27. He’s not just streaming a live concert online; he’s streaming his whole album on iTunes. If you open up the iTunes Store, you’ll currently see a cue to listen to the new album among the featured [...]
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